Undergraduate - UnitATS4231 - Arts honours thesis A

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Offered	Caulfield First semester 2014 (Day) Clayton First semester 2014 (Day)
Coordinator(s)	Refer to school honours coordinator

Synopsis

Under the supervision of an academic staff member, students will develop, and commence the implementation and reporting of, a research project on an approved topic of their own devising. This unit is followed by Arts honours thesis B (ATS4232), under which the project and thesis will be completed.

Outcomes

Students will:

Commence planning, conducting and reporting on research in their Honours discipline;
Demonstrate satisfactory progress in the the planning, implementation and reporting of their research;
Demonstrate satisfactory progress in their command of the research literature relating to their research project.

Assessment

Satisfactory progress towards a 15,000 - 18,000 words research thesis: 100%

Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Susanna Scarparo

Workload requirements

One 1-hour supervisor meeting per fortnight

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

Communications
Film and screen studies
Journalism
Ancient cultures
Anthropology
Chinese studies
Behavioural studies
Criminology
French studies
Geography and environmental science
German studies
History
Indigenous cultures and histories
Indonesian studies
International studies
Italian studies
Japanese studies
Korean studies
Linguistics
Literary studies
Philosophy
Politics
Religion and theology
Sociology
Spanish and Latin American studies
Ukrainian studies
Theatre
English as an international language

Co-requisites

ATS4232

Prohibitions

ATS4230, ATS4003, ATS4004, ATS4371, ATS4460, ATS4462, ATS4923, ATS4925, ATS4767, ATS4911, ATS4370, ATS4371, ATS4715, ATS4725, ATS4763, ATS4773, ATS4778, ATS4866, APG4033