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ATS4231

Faculty of Arts

18 September 2017 22 November 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

12 points, SCA Band 1, 0.250 EFTSL

Undergraduate - Unit

Refer to the specific census and withdrawal dates for the semester(s) in which this unit is offered.

Faculty

Arts

Coordinator(s)

Refer to school honours coordinator

Offered

Caulfield

  • First semester 2016 (Flexible)
  • Second semester 2016 (Flexible)

Clayton

  • First semester 2016 (Flexible)
  • Second semester 2016 (Flexible)

Synopsis

Under the supervision of an academic staff member, students will develop, and commence the implementation and reporting of, a research project on an approved topic of their own devising. This unit is followed by Arts honours thesis B (ATS4232), under which the project and thesis will be completed.

Outcomes

Students will:

  1. Commence planning, conducting and reporting on research in their Honours discipline;
  2. Demonstrate satisfactory progress in the planning, implementation and reporting of their research;
  3. Demonstrate satisfactory progress in their command of the research literature relating to their research project.

Assessment

Satisfactory progress towards a 15,000 - 18,000 words research thesis: 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.

See also Unit timetable information

Chief examiner(s)

Associate Professor Susanna Scarparo

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

Communications and media studies
Film and screen studies
Journalism
Ancient cultures
Anthropology
Chinese studies
Criminology
French studies
German studies
History
Indigenous cultures and histories
Indonesian studies
International studies
Italian studies
Japanese studies
Korean studies
Linguistics
Literary studies
Philosophy
Politics
Religious studies
Sociology
Spanish and Latin American studies
Theatre and performance
English as an international language
Ukrainian studies

Co-requisites

ATS4232

Prohibitions

ATS4230, ATS4003, ATS4004, ATS4371, ATS4460, ATS4462, ATS4923, ATS4925, ATS4767, ATS4911, ATS4370, ATS4371, ATS4715, ATS4725, ATS4763, ATS4773, ATS4778, ATS4866, APG4033