12 points, SCA Band 3, 0.250 EFTSL
Postgraduate - Unit
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Faculty
Organisational Unit
Chief examiner(s)
Associate Professor Vinod Mishra
Coordinator(s)
Associate Professor Vinod Mishra
Unit guides
Synopsis
This unit provides students with the opportunities and skills to conduct, communicate, discuss, evaluate, and report research. Students find a supervisor in the Department of Economics and identify a preferred topic on which to conduct research after consulting with the supervisor. Students participate in a range of research activities and produce a final research paper.
Outcomes
The learning goals associated with this unit are to:
- gain the necessary analytical, communication, creative, critical thinking, and technical research skills and apply them to ask and answer a research question that has significant theoretical or policy implications
- demonstrate the ability to analyse, comment, evaluate, discuss, and communicate research outcomes in written and oral form in a professional manner
- demonstrate the application of knowledge and skills with high level personal autonomy and accountability.
Assessment
Within semester assessment: 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. Independent study may include associated readings, assessment and preparation for scheduled activities. The unit requires on average six/eight hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.
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