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.

ATS3138 - Special reading unit 2

6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

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Faculty

Arts

Organisational Unit

School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics

Coordinator(s)

Dr Robert Irving

Offered

Not offered in 2016

Synopsis

This unit allows students with special interests to study in depth a particular topic in linguistics, literature or culture and society. Special permission to undertake this unit must be obtained from the Section Convenor.

Outcomes

After successfully completing this unit students should be able to:

Develop a research proposal
Develop a research strategy
Identify the key resources relevant to the topic
Demonstrate understanding of the research topic through a research essay that present a coherent argument.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 100%

Workload requirements

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 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 Robert Irving

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

Chinese studies
French studies
German studies
Italian studies
Japanese studies
Korean studies
Linguistics
Spanish and Latin American studies
Ukrainian studies