Offered
Caulfield Full year 2008 (Day)
Clayton Full year 2008 (Day)
Synopsis
Students work under the guidance of a supervisor to carry out research that addresses: a classic or contemporary disciplinary debate; a current policy issue; or a generic issue within management practice.
Objectives
The learning objectives of this unit are to:
+ design and execute an independent research project over the course of two semesters, under the guidance of a staff supervisor. Projects may be based in qualitative or quantitative methodologies, or may include a mixed methods approach. For example, a quantitative project based on surveys will typically require: elucidation of the research question, conduct of a critical review of the relevant literature in relation to the chosen topic area, deriving hypotheses, identifying a target population, gaining ethics approval, designing a questionnaire, gathering the data, analysing the data using appropriate techniques, drawing conclusions and producing a major analytical thesis of up to 20,000 words on the project.
Assessment
Within semester assessment: 100%
Prerequisites
Acceptance into BBus (Hons), BCom (Hons), MPhil (Prelim)
