units

ASP4100

Faculty of Science

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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

24 points, SCA Band 2, 0.500 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Science

Organisational Unit

School of Physics and Astronomy

Coordinator(s)

Professor Michael J Morgan

Offered

Clayton

  • Full year 2016 (Day)
  • Second semester to First semester 2016 (Day)

Synopsis

Research project and Literature Review.

Outcomes

On completion of this unit students will be able to:

  1. Search and analyse research literature;
  2. Write a comprehensive research survey of a topic in astronomy and astrophysics;
  3. Understand the current state of knowledge on their chosen research problem;
  4. Perform guided research on their chosen topic at a level close to that required to publish in a research journal;
  5. Write a comprehensive honours thesis that clearly presents their results and their justifications.

Assessment

Research project (comprising written report and oral presentation): 83.3%
Literature review (comprising written report and oral presentation): 16.7%

Chief examiner(s)

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