In the extended project module students carry out an individual research project on a business topic of their choosing. Projects may for example be the development of a business plan, research on a particular market/industry/business phenomenon, or a specific managerial problem. Students will receive support in the form of lectures and individual 1:1 meetings with allocated project supervisors. Support focuses on the following critical phases of the research process:

Defining the scope of the project.
	The survey of the academic and practitioner literature to identify the existing ‘state of the art’ in a topic area.
	The research design and the development of a strategy for data collection and analysis.
	The collection of primary and secondary data.
	The analysis of collected data and the formulation of conclusions/actionable recommendations.
The extended project not only provides an opportunity to work on a topic that interests the student, but it also allows the student to showcase what she/he has learned at UCL in the context of a project that is of practical relevance to potential employers. Therefore, students are recommended to choose a topic with an eye on their future career plans.

 

This description relates to the full year version of the module. Only the topics and content that is taught in Term 1 will be covered in this module.

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Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 20 weekly lectures

Content: Each class will focus on a small number of texts, one or two of which will be...

Teaching Delivery: This module is taught in 20 weekly lectures

Content: Each class will focus on a small number of texts, one or two of which will be studied in detail on a photograph. The texts are chosen to illustrate the development of Greek cursive scripts and bookhands; to examine formal aspects of the transmission of Greek literature on papyrus; and to give an idea of the range of documentary types available as sources for the history of Egypt from the age of the Ptolemies to late antiquity.

Skills: This module aims to introduce participants to the study of Greek papyri, documentary as well as literary, and to offer training in editing them.

Recommended preperatory reading: 

E. G. Turner, Greek Papyri. An Introduction (Oxford 1980); R. S. Bagnall (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (New York/Oxford 2009).