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Upon securing an approved internship, you will transition from the 60-credit Individual Project module (INM363) to this 45-credit version of the module. The remaining 15 credits will be fulfilled by successfully completing the 15-credit Professional Internship and Career Development module. This adjustment in credit allocation for the individual project is intended to allow you to fully engage with your professional internship. It acknowledges the valuable time required to develop skills in a professional setting and the learning opportunities that such an experience provides. 
Your project may be directly related to your internship, pending approval from your supervisor, or you may choose to continue with the project you initially agreed upon. 
The project requires an independent piece of systematic research and/or problem solving which must satisfy the requirements of the professional body/bodies with which the course is accredited. This offers you the opportunity to identify one or more requirements, undertake a suitable systematic investigation of these, and report upon the results and implications in a professional manner. 
The individual project is a self-directed study in which you spend time working in an area of interest with advice from a member of academic staff. The topic will be relevant to the degree taken and address appropriate professional requirements. Degree course specific restrictions on your topic may apply and will be communicated to you before the start date of the module. 
In regular communications with the project supervisor, who assess, monitor and advise on the viability of your project, you are expected to clearly identify a problem or requirement, justifying why it is worth exploring or implementing, develop a method suitable for the work, apply this method, analyse the results and evaluate their implications. Appropriate time and effort should be allocated to each of these aspects of the dissertation, which should use a wide range of sources and take advantage of the existing body of knowledge in the area addressed by your project, the knowledge you have developed in your course and discussions with the academic supervisor. The research must be suitably reported in an independently written dissertation that presents the information in a professional manner and fully and accurately sources all references used. 
Prerequisites 
The module is core-elective for all MSc programmes in Computer Science. For the MSc in Artificial Intelligence, there are no prerequisites. For both the MSc in Human Computer Interaction and Design and the MSc in User Experience Engineering, the INM319 (Research Methods in Human-Computer Interaction) must be passed with a mark of at least 50%. For all remaining MScs, INM373 (Research Methods and Professional Issues) must be passed with a mark of at least 50%. 
Co-requisites 
Students taking INM468 must take INM469 at the same time (and vice-versa) – these two modules are taken instead of INM363.

Feedback is provided in a number of ways throughout your module. This includes feedback you receive during teaching from both peers and lecturers and that provided for formative assessment. Following an assessment, you will be given your marks and feedback in line with the assessment regulations and policy. More information on the timing and type of feedback that will be provided for each assessment will be available from the module leader. <a href='https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations'>https://www.citystgeorges.ac.uk/about/governance/policies/student-policies-and-regulations</a>

This module will support the development of all the graduate attributes. Your module leader will provide you with information about how your learning, teaching and assessment activities support your development of these attributes. The graduate attributes are: - Always learning - Engaged in the world - Technical and digital - Connected Professional - Creating Impact

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Researching information systems and computing

Research methods in information

Projects in Computing and Information Systems, A Student’s Guide.

Doing your masters dissertation

Individual Project (Internship track)

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INM468 - Individual Project (Internship track)

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Individual research and development, with the guidance that includes: (i) introductory lectures and discussions as well as (ii) personal meetings and guidance by your project supervisor. This is an individual project so we expect you will spend considerable time on self-directed study, as instructed on the project handbook, to complete the various parts of the project (such as literature review, defining and following a method for your project, coding to build a product (where appropriate) and/or obtaining results, critically evaluating them and writing them up, reflecting on the results and linking them with the reviewed literature, discussing the results and identifying gaps and provisions for further work etc).

Apply research and analysis techniques and evaluate relevant literature in the context of professionally significant objectives. 

Skills

Design and develop an appropriate methodology for addressing the domain specific research questions formulated. 

Knowledge

Demonstrate initiative and originality in problem solving by identifying suitable techniques/ method to address the problem in hand. 

Reflect on own functioning and apply self-criticism in order to improve practice. 

Values and attitudes

Analyse the outputs of your research using standard, professional techniques in the area. 

Act autonomously in planning the design and implementation of a project at a professional level. 

Respect the work and intellectual property of others and reference it in a professional manner that is clear, consistent and unambiguous. 

Demonstrate an appreciation of the value of research within the discipline from a critical perspective. 

Exercise initiative and sustained effort to attain clear objectives within specified deadlines. 

Coherently summarise complex, subject specific information and present it to others in a structured and professional manner. 

Develop strategies to address the appropriate legal, professional, and ethical issues that relate to the project work. 

Formulate a systematic approach to utilise the specialised knowledge in specific areas related to the degree studied. 