Monash University Handbook 2010 Postgraduate - Unit

Synopsis

Students produce an original piece of supervised interdisciplinary research in Journalism and Australian Studies, the specific topic to be agreed between the student and supervisor. The results of the research are to be produced in either a monograph of approximately 18,000 words, or alternatively as a very substantial piece of journalism (eg a one hour video documentary, a 12,000 words of investigative feature(s), a substantial website) accompanied by a 5,000 word scholarly exegesis. Enrolment in this unit requires the consent of the Heads of the Journalism Section and the National Centre for Australian Studies.

Objectives

On satisfactory completion of this subject, students will be able to:

1. Identify a key interdisciplinary issue in Journalism and Australian Studies that lends itself to further investigation, analysis and discussion, and synthesise it into an original research question.
2. Identify and utlise the relevant scholarly and journalistic literature to frame the theoretical approach to be used, and identify the appropriate original empirical field for exploration and analysis l
3. Produce a substantial and well-argued scholarly analysis in response to the research question, or alternatively produce a substantial piece of journalism accompanied by a scholarly exegsis.

Assessment

Research monograph (18,000 words) or substantial piece of journalism accompanied by a 5,000 word exegesis

Contact hours

By Supervision

Prerequisites

72pt in Master of Journalism and Australian Studies

Prohibitions

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