Dissertation

[rickyarbino]

Agent, what's your course title and degree type?

[topmo3]

so dissertation = thesis lol? thats what we call it here. dont have to do actual thesis yet thank god but i got this course right now i have to do a 20-page actual genuine research paper on something its due to monday a week from now still havent started ::((

[NickUndercover]

Worked on one named "What are the structural solutions to carceral overpopulation" in a criminology class, but it's more of a research paper though. Also did some work on "Can sovereign states be held accountable to their own citizens for their security policies in virtue of international instruments and before international jurisdictions" and again that's a research paper. they were both team work

I don't really understand what a dissertation is in the UK and the US, do you just pick a subject, do your research and start writing ? It's not in relation with any course you're following ?

[ultraspatial]

I don't really understand what a dissertation is in the UK and the US, do you just pick a subject, do your research and start writing ? It's not in relation with any course you're following ?

that's pretty much what i gotta do. guessing it's similar to the uk/us. obvs it's related to something you studied but it's not for any of you're classes or w/e

[m8son666]

For me we got given a list of loads of different titles/supervisors and made a list of our top 10 and depending on how well you did the year before they allocated you the titles

[Johoosh]

Doing mine on a comparison between 19th c slave narratives & modern takes on them/neo-slave narratives I.e Toni Morrison, 12 Years A Slave film vs the o.g narrative.

[Liam92]

"The attitudes and perceptions of student nurses toward substance abuse disorders and substance-dependant patients. A qualitative exploratory study."

Start mine in May - 6 interviews then 15,000 words so shouldn't be too bad

[kay]

Science, engineering and medicine bachelors degrees usually don't require dissertations, unless you've picked a research project option in your final year.

really? everyone i know at my uni doing a undergrad chemistry/biology/physics have to do a dissertation

Oh, dunno, things might've changed a bit since I was at Uni. Either that or they've started calling reports/reviews dissertations. In my mind, dissertations are kinda half way in length between a report and a thesis, so 100ish pages or 30000ish words?

[ezza]

oh nah, dissertations is just like 10,000ish normz

[nousd]

I was under the impression that all music-based degrees required a dissertation about compression.
But then, what i'd like to understand is how to best master sub-heavy music to make it both system-worthy & home-listening friendly.

[wolf89]

Jesus christ writing a dissertation on compression or mastering would be horrible. It's the sort of thing you can literally spend a life time arguing about (what so you think mastering engineers do when not at work?)

[kay]

oh nah, dissertations is just like 10,000ish normz

Oh. I could probably write that in a couple days lol.

[wubstep]

I did mine about soundsystems/carnivals/sonic dominance/dread etc. and came super close to a 1st.

Also managed to name drop Swans, DMZ/Kode9 and do a chapter on Sunn 0)))

[ezza]

what was your degree?

[wubstep]

Photography...don't ask.

They told us to do it about something that interests us...their fault

[Kochari]

"Drawing Water and Hewing Wood" - Soteriological Implications of Bussho in the Zen Tradition

About halfway through, pretty fun

[jrkhnds]

is this your bachelor thesis? 3rd year, before you advance to master's courses? a dissertation is what you call the 200pages+ book you gotta write to get your PhD.

if so: examinating roman emperor Gallienus' reception in both Historia Augusta and Aurelius Victor's Liber De Caesaribus, with special attention to his reform of the senate.

basically because it's much easier to write something on ancient greek/rome than on anything else.