Undergraduate - UnitATS4373 - JAIS Honours professional project

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Synopsis

This unit provides students with an opportunity for a detailed supervised research and production exercise at a high level. Students choose their particular focus and medium on the basis of their undergraduate specialisations, and engage constructively and critically with each other's contributions via a MUSO site. There may be lectures and learning materials drawing on the JAIS Journalism, Australian and Indigenous Studies strands of subjects, and students will be required to complete and defend a scholarly exegesis of their professional practice and production.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this course students should be able to:

1. demonstrate an advanced ability to identify and research an issue, and gather appropriate evidentiary material in the appropriate modality and medium;
2. demonstrate an advanced ability to present in a clear, concise, accurate and meaningful way using a variety of elements in a coherent package;
3. identify, observe key ethical and legal obligations associated with professional research, and reflect critically on their own and others' performance in this regard;
4. reflect on their professional practice and production in a scholarly exegesis in both written and verbal modes;
5. work independently and in groups to achieve their learning outcomes;
6. demonstrate an ability to set and meet deadlines, and produce under pressure;
7. demonstrate a critical awareness of the capacities, limitations and socio-professional implications of professional practices with respect to their chosen subject matter;
8. demonstrate an advanced capacity at an Honours level for professional practice.

Assessment

Research proposal (1000 words): 10%
Minor Project (2000 words or equivalent): 30%
Major Project (4000 words or equivalent): 40%
Critical Reflection (2000 words): 20%

Chief examiner(s)

Philip Chubb

Contact hours

Supervision (individual and group): 0.5 hrs per week

Off-campus attendance requirements

Online and phone discussion

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

Australian Indigenous studies
Journalism
Journalism studies