Unit details
AIX703 - Dissertation B
| Offered at: | (B, X) |
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| Offerings: | Trimester 1,2 and 3 |
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| Cohort rule: | On Campus option for IR students only |
| Unit chair: | D Hundt |
| Prerequisite: | Students planning to take this unit in International Relations, International and Community Development, Politics and Policy, or Psychoanalytic Studies must seek permission from the Unit Chair. Students must normally have a distinction average or higher in their previous coursework, and enrolment is subject to the availability of a supervisor. The unit is normally to be undertaken in the last year of a student's study. |
| Corequisite: | AIX702 |
| Incompatible with: | AIR718, AIR752, AIR780, AIR781, AIR782, AIR783, AID754, AID755, AIP752, ASP780 |
| Note: Assessment for the overall Dissertation, comprising units AIX702 and AIX703, is a research dissertation of 14-16,000 words (100%) applicable at completion of AIX703. Completion of both AIX702 and AIX703 can be undertaken in one or over two trimesters. The rationale for offering the Dissertation in the form of two 2 credit point units is to provide the opportunity to complete the dissertation part-time. There are no formal assessment requirements in, or an exit point providing formal credit, from AIX702. | |
Content
Topics that can be addressed in this unit are restricted to areas in which staff in the relevant disciplines have expertise.
In preparing the dissertation the student will, with the assistance of the supervisor:
- present a dissertation proposal; and
- identify a relevant set of references and prepare bibliography drawn from a literature review;
Assessment
Students enrolled in this unit will also have to undertake as a co-requisite AIX702. Assessment across these units is a dissertation of 14-16,000 words, equivalent to an Honours thesis. In AIX702, students will be expected to prepare a project proposal, identifying aims, approach, structure and primary and secondary sources. This outline is a hurdle requirement only.
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