AIX493 - Honours Research Design

Year:

2024 unit information

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)*

From 2025
Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online, Community Based Delivery (CBD)*

Credit point(s): 1
EFTSL value: 0.125
Cohort rule: This unit is only available to students enrolled in A400, A401
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite: Nil
Incompatible with: AIX492, ASP491
Study commitment

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Scheduled learning activities - campus

3 full day seminars in week 2 (Online attendance possible; recordings available online), 1 full day seminar mid-trimester, 2 x 2-hour seminars (Online attendance possible) mid-trimester

Scheduled learning activities - online

3 full day seminars in week 2 (Online attendance possible; recordings available online), 1 full day seminar mid-trimester, 2 x 2-hour seminars (Online attendance possible) mid-trimester

Note:

*Community Based Delivery (CBD) is for National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute students only.

Content

This unit provides Honours students in the humanities and social sciences with training in how to design and implement a research project. Students are introduced to debates about epistemologies and the ethics of knowledge production and research, and are then equipped with the skills necessary to formulate a research proposal within an identified field, including formulating a methodology appropriate to their discipline and project. Assessments are designed to help students refine their thesis project.

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