Postgraduate - UnitAPG5361 - Cultural arts research project A

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Synopsis

Cultural Arts Research Project is one of the focus units offered in the Master of Cultural Arts. Students will conduct original research into an aspect of the Cultural Arts under the supervision of a member of the academic staff. In Cultural Arts Research Project A students will develop, and commence the implementation and reporting of, a research project on an approved topic of their own devising In this 24-point unit, students will complete a Masters Coursework thesis (minor thesis), which may take the form of an extended essay, a critical literature review or a small-scale case study/survey based report. It is expected that the thesis will be theoretically, methodologically and technically sophisticated. This unit is followed by Cultural Arts Research Project B, under which the project will be completed.

Outcomes

On successful completion of the Cultural Research Project A a student will be able to:

1. identify, clarify and investigate a problem/topic;
2. discuss relevant theory;
3. locate, analyse and integrate relevant literature;

Assessment

Proposal (4000 words): 40%
Literature review (5000 words): 60%

Chief examiner(s)

TBA

Contact hours

One 1-hour (min.) supervisory meeting per fortnight plus research writing

Prerequisites

Students must have completed two core units and a specialisation sequence (or the equivalent)

Prohibitions

MGX5440, MGX5300, MGX9220, MGX9230, MGX9270, MGX9280, MGX9420, MGX9600, MGX9660, MGX9720, MGX9761, MGX9850, MGX9940