Postgraduate - UnitFIT5553 - Minor thesis part 3

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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6 points, SCA Band 2, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Postgraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Information Technology
Offered	Caulfield First semester 2015 (Day) Caulfield Second semester 2015 (Day)

Synopsis

This unit is a research/thesis unit for FIT Masters (Honours) degrees, taken in the final stage of the Masters (Honours) course.

Before enrolling in the unit, students need to have reached agreement with a potential supervisor about a research area/feasible research topic for their Minor Thesis project.

Outcomes

On completion of the Masters thesis units, students should be able to:

design a rigorous Masters level research project and develop project proposal;
critically review research literature, research design and reported findings;
evaluate and select research methods and techniques of data collection and analysis appropriate to particular research designs, projects and disciplines;
conduct ethical research;
communicate research findings in written and oral form in research and industry settings.

Assessment

At the completion of the requirements for the thesis the following components of assessment will be completed:

Research Proposal: 5%; Literature Review: 10%; Interim Presentation: hurdle; Final Presentation: 5%; Thesis (normally 10,000 - 20,000 words): 80%

These assessment tasks will be completed over the course of several units in the Minor Thesis program but the overall grade for the thesis will only be finalised on completion of FIT5554 (24pts).

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week. Students will be expected to hold regular meetings with supervisor(s) over the course of the semester.