Wikipedia talk:Education program archive/Queen Mary, University of London/Research Methods (Film) (Spring 2014)/Course description
Research Methods (Film) is designed to develop research skills needed to succeed in your degree and beyond in the world of work. It is designed to foster a broad approach to research methods and expertise, rather than to train students in a particular critical approach. The module is also designed to ensure that you attain the higher level graduate attributes, including research capacity, clarity of communication, critical engagement with knowledge, information expertise, and rounded intellectual development, among others. As such, the module is designed to help you acquire transferable skills that will be useful for you once you have completed your degree. In the first part of the module, you will work in small groups to adopt and edit a Wikipedia page on a particular film; in the second part of the module you will work on a proposal for a possible dissertation/research project.
The module involves elements of formal teaching, group-led and independent study, weekly reading and preparation, and peer review; and a range of assessments, including the editing of a Wikipedia page, group and individual presentations, and written assignments. It is strongly recommended that students planning to take either FLM601 Script Development and Research or FLM304 Film Studies Research Project at Level 6 take this module.