School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Honours Development
  • Unit Code

    SAH5100
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Natalie Jane GATELY

Description

The purpose of this unit is to create awareness of research opportunities, prepare students for future research and introduce students to the requirements of the Honours program. Students will be equipped with the essential intellectual and practical skills to know how to conduct research including theoretical, philosophical and methodological frameworks, and ethical approaches to research. In this unit students will develop a research proposal. Students will develop a range of skills necessary to complete an Honours research project, including an understanding of the role of supervision, the phases of thesis development, the acquisition of skills, the processes of research, the management of time and resources, research ethics and the responsibilities involved in research.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

The mode of delivery for this unit is a two-week intensive set of seminars commencing prior to semester, with development of a proposal and presentation of a proposal seminar occurring throughout the semester.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Communicate a coherent explanation of appropriate methodologies to address research question(s).
  2. Review, consolidate and synthesise current issues in discipline area to identify a research gap that could be addressed through empirical investigation.
  3. Review, consolidate and synthesise theoretical and philosophical frameworks that address research question(s).
  4. Integrate the essential skills required for conducting a literature review, such as searching for and accessing publications in relevant research areas, analysing sources on specific topics, evaluating data and publications to determine relevance to a research question, synthesising several sources of information to provide summary and conclusive statements relevant to the research question, and integrating material to form a coherent argument.

Unit Content

  1. Methodological perspectives in research.
  2. Development of theoretical frameworks to address research questions.
  3. Appreciation of philosophical paradigms in research.
  4. Critique of current issues in discipline area.
  5. Developing intellectual and writing skills to conduct a literature review.
  6. Understanding the nature of undertaking research at a higher level.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Trimstr 15 x 7.5 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

The mode of delivery for this unit is a two-week intensive set of seminars commencing prior to semester. The teaching and learning approach in this unit is enhanced through in-class discussions, where the skills of working effectively with others (specifically team working and task collaboration), communicating effectively, critical appraisal and the ability to generate ideas are emphasised.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Literature Review ^Literature Critique and Discussion
Assignment ^Research Proposal
ONLINE
TypeDescription
Literature Review ^Literature Critique and Discussion
Assignment ^Research Proposal

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Your unit may be subject to government or third party COVID-19 vaccination requirements. Please consider this before enrolling in this unit, and speak with the unit coordinator if this raises any concerns.

  • Unit Title

    Honours Development
  • Unit Code

    SAH5100
  • Year

    2022
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    20
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Natalie Jane GATELY

Description

The purpose of this unit is to create awareness of research opportunities, prepare students for future research and introduce students to the requirements of the Honours program. Students will be equipped with the essential intellectual and practical skills to know how to conduct research including theoretical, philosophical and methodological frameworks, and ethical approaches to research. In this unit students will develop a research proposal. Students will develop a range of skills necessary to complete an Honours research project, including an understanding of the role of supervision, the phases of thesis development, the acquisition of skills, the processes of research, the management of time and resources, research ethics and the responsibilities involved in research.

Non Standard Timetable Requirements

The mode of delivery for this unit is a two-week intensive set of seminars commencing prior to semester, with development of a proposal and presentation of a proposal seminar occurring throughout the semester.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Communicate a coherent explanation of appropriate methodologies to address research question(s).
  2. Review, consolidate and synthesise current issues in discipline area to identify a research gap that could be addressed through empirical investigation.
  3. Review, consolidate and synthesise theoretical and philosophical frameworks that address research question(s).
  4. Integrate the essential skills required for conducting a literature review, such as searching for and accessing publications in relevant research areas, analysing sources on specific topics, evaluating data and publications to determine relevance to a research question, synthesising several sources of information to provide summary and conclusive statements relevant to the research question, and integrating material to form a coherent argument.

Unit Content

  1. Methodological perspectives in research.
  2. Development of theoretical frameworks to address research questions.
  3. Appreciation of philosophical paradigms in research.
  4. Critique of current issues in discipline area.
  5. Developing intellectual and writing skills to conduct a literature review.
  6. Understanding the nature of undertaking research at a higher level.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Trimstr 15 x 7.5 hour seminarNot OfferedNot Offered

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

The mode of delivery for this unit is a two-week intensive set of seminars commencing prior to semester. The teaching and learning approach in this unit is enhanced through in-class discussions, where the skills of working effectively with others (specifically team working and task collaboration), communicating effectively, critical appraisal and the ability to generate ideas are emphasised.

Assessment

GS2 GRADING SCHEMA 2 Used for Undifferentiated Pass/Fail units inc. practical units or work-integrated learning

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescription
Literature Review ^Literature Critique and Discussion
Assignment ^Research Proposal
ONLINE
TypeDescription
Literature Review ^Literature Critique and Discussion
Assignment ^Research Proposal

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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