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MSc Week for projects

Process

  • The student develops an idea for a project, and discusses this idea with their supervisor. With the supervisor's encouragement, the student submits an outline project proposal, and books a place on a project week.
  • The project week affords an opportunity for the student to start work in earnest, to attend teaching sessions and workshops, and to have one-to-one meetings with their supervisor.
  • Six weeks later, the student submits a progress report. If this is approved, they may continue. If not, then they will need to submit a revised report for assessment after the next project week.
  • The student provides their supervisor with further reports on progress as they complete the project and start to work on the dissertation.
  • The student submits their dissertation before the end of their current final term of study.

Project Week will:

  • Structure and expectations
  • Introduce the various kinds of projects that we encourage and discuss with relevant examples.
  • Discuss academic writing in terms of presentation 
  • Provide instruction on gathering material and research artifacts
  • Describe the process of thesis writing and engage students on appropriate chapter construction through examples
  • Describe project assessment with examples

Course dates

18th June 2012Oxford University Department of Computer Science, Software Engineering Teaching Room 478 and 479 0 places remaining.
1st October 2012Oxford University Department of Computer Science08 places remaining.
7th January 2013Oxford University Department of Computer Science13 places remaining.
8th April 2013Oxford University Department of Computer Science16 places remaining.
1st July 2013Oxford University Department of Computer Science16 places remaining.
7th October 2013Oxford University Department of Computer Science18 places remaining.