Undergraduate - UnitATS4370 - JAIS Honours thesis

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Synopsis

Students produce an original piece of supervised research, the specific topic to be agreed between the student and supervisor. This research is written up and analysed in a scholarly dissertation of 15,000 to 18,000 words, or a major piece of non-fiction professional production (10,000 words or equivalent) plus a 5000 word scholarly exegesis.

Outcomes

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

1. Identify a key issue in Journalism, Australian and/or Indigenous Studies that lends itself to further investigation, analysis and discussion in a research essay or a substantial piece of non-fiction production, and synthesise it into an original research question;
2. Identify and utilise the relevant scholarly literature to frame the theoretical approach to be used, and identify the appropriate original empirical field for exploration and analysis;
3. Produce a substantial and well-argued scholarly analysis in response to the research question, or produce a substantial and well-argued analysis in a professional non-fiction genre in response to the research question accompanied by a scholarly exegesis.

Assessment

15,000 to 18,000 words thesis or non-fiction production (10,000 words or equivalent)plus scholarly exegesis of 5,000 words: 100%

Chief examiner(s)

Dr Tony Moore

Contact hours

Supervision: 1 hour per week

Off-campus attendance requirements

Online session and phone discussion

This unit applies to the following area(s) of study

Australian Indigenous studies
Journalism
Journalism studies