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ADD6093

Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture

18 September 2017 22 December 2024

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This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2016 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.

Monash University

0 points, SCA Band 1, 0.000 EFTSL

Postgraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Art, Design and Architecture

Coordinator(s)

Dr Fiona Macdonald

Offered

Caulfield

  • First semester 2016 (Day)
  • First semester 2016 (Off-campus)
  • Second semester 2016 (Day)
  • Second semester 2016 (Off-campus)

Synopsis

Research documentation analyses documentation methodologies in contemporary research. Candidates will articulate documentary, studio and creative outcomes of their research through critical appraisal of the relations between the exegesis and studio methodologies. In the case of thesis-mode candidates, the unit will focus on the structure and presentation of the written work.

Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, candidates will:

  1. Demonstrate a discursive approach to the subject of their research and its field of inquiry;
  2. Apply critical understanding of methodologies in contemporary research as appropriate to their project;
  3. Apply critical understanding of the forms, languages and conventions applicable to their field of research, including the critical approach to the identification and analysis of bibliographic and other empirical sources;
  4. Have developed competence in documenting the research and articulating its significance through sustained critical reflections of the intention, method and outcome of the research;
  5. Have developed a firm conceptual framework for their research.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

2 hours per week, 8 hours of private study

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Chief examiner(s)

Dr Fiona Macdonald

Prerequisites

ADD5091 & ADD5092

Co-requisites

Students must be enrolled in the MADA Doctor of Philosophy course code 1322