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.

  • Unit Title

    Introduction to Social Research
  • Unit Code

    SWK1112
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Lucy Madeleine HOPKINS

Description

This unit introduces students to the practice of social research in human services. This unit has been designed to develop student skills in locating, consuming and critically appraising research. The unit will cover different research methods as well as the use of information technology in social research processes.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded RPS1120, SWK1105

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate the use of Information Technology in locating and accessing research literature.
  2. Describe the ethical issues involved in social research.
  3. Describe the major philosophical approaches to social research.
  4. Understand the differences between good and poor sources of information.
  5. Understand the role of research in human service practice in the development of services, policy, and practice.

Unit Content

  1. Consuming research.
  2. Ethics in social research.
  3. Introduction to qualitative methods.
  4. Introduction to quantitative methods.
  5. Reading research critically.
  6. The role of research in shaping how social problems are understood.
  7. What is research?

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not OfferedNot Offered13 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 1Not OfferedNot Offered13 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-Campus: Lectures and Tutorials. Off-Campus: Online through Blackboard

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

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
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentDatabase search activity50%
AssignmentAnalysis and critique of research papers50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentDatabase search activity50%
AssignmentAnalysis and critique of research papers50%

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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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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.

  • Unit Title

    Introduction to Social Research
  • Unit Code

    SWK1112
  • Year

    2021
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Lucy Madeleine HOPKINS

Description

This unit introduces students to the practice of social research in human services. This unit has been designed to develop student skills in locating, consuming and critically appraising research. The unit will cover different research methods as well as the use of information technology in social research processes.

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded RPS1120, SWK1105

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Demonstrate the use of Information Technology in locating and accessing research literature.
  2. Describe the ethical issues involved in social research.
  3. Describe the major philosophical approaches to social research.
  4. Understand the differences between good and poor sources of information.
  5. Understand the role of research in human service practice in the development of services, policy, and practice.

Unit Content

  1. Consuming research.
  2. Ethics in social research.
  3. Introduction to qualitative methods.
  4. Introduction to quantitative methods.
  5. Reading research critically.
  6. The role of research in shaping how social problems are understood.
  7. What is research?

Learning Experience

ON-CAMPUS

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECUs LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 1Not OfferedNot Offered13 x 1 hour lecture
Semester 1Not OfferedNot Offered13 x 2 hour tutorial

For more information see the Semester Timetable

ONLINE

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECUs LMS as well as additional ECU l

Additional Learning Experience Information

On-Campus: Lectures and Tutorials. Off-Campus: Online through Blackboard

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

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
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentDatabase search activity50%
AssignmentAnalysis and critique of research papers50%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentDatabase search activity50%
AssignmentAnalysis and critique of research papers50%

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 Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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