Undergraduate - UnitATS4806 - SAMSS honours thesis B

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Offered	Gippsland Second semester 2015 (Day) Gippsland Second semester 2015 (Off-campus)
Coordinator(s)	Dr George Vandoorn

Synopsis

This unit provides students with the opportunity to expand their knowledge of a relatively narrow topic within their chosen discipline and to design and conduct research on that topic. Students will produce a thesis of 15,000 to 18,000 words on an approved topic selected and researched by the candidate under supervision of a member of academic staff with expertise in the proposed area of research. In the process of preparing their thesis, students will be required to participate in non-graded honours seminars.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit students should:

be able to demonstrate expertise in a specific area of the chosen discipline
be able to independently design and conduct a research project
have advanced academic research skills and highly developed academic writing skills
have produced a coherent, well-organised and professionally presented thesis in the discipline.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Chief examiner(s)

Dr George Vandoorn

Prerequisites

ATS4805

Prohibitions

HUM4000(B)