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HMT4001 Honours Dissertation A

Semester 2, 2022 Online
Units : 2
Faculty or Section : Faculty of Business, Education, Law and Arts
School or Department : School of Humanities & Communication
Grading basis : Graded
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Requisites

Pre-requisite: Students must be enrolled in one of the following Programs: BAHN or BCAH

Overview

This honours course helps students to commence the planning, development of their research methodology and writing of their dissertation (12,000-15,000 words) or professional body of work and written exegesis (5,000-8,000 words) or creative writing (10,000 words) and written exegesis (5,000 words). It involves working closely with their supervisor to develop their literature review, reflect on an appropriate methodology, and assess the relevance of particular theoretical or other disciplinary approaches for their topic. It helps students to formulate and critique the feasibility of their research project and to develop an outline and introduction before advancing to the final dissertation course HMT4002.

This two unit course enables students enrolled in the Honours programme to commence their dissertation under supervision. The student shall enrol in either MODULE 1 or MODULE 2. The topic shall be chosen by the student and approved by the supervisor, and may be either the result of original investigations, or embody a critical appraisal or analysis of primary or secondary source material. The dissertation may be (i) fully written (Module 1), comprising 12,000-15,000 words; or (ii) consist of a professional body of work and a written exegesis of 5,000-8,000 words (Module 2). Module 2 is especially suited to BCAH students. This course will normally be followed by HMT4002 Honours Dissertation B.

Course learning outcomes

On completion of this course students should be able to:

  1. develop a research proposal, including defining a topic, developing a research design, incorporating an annotated bibliography and justifying a methodology;
  2. undertake independent research, under supervision, on a proposed topic;
  3. review the literature relevant to a selected dissertation topic;
  4. develop an annotated bibliography in a full literature review;
  5. apply and justify methodology appropriate to a research topic.

Topics

Description Weighting(%)
1. Proposal 40.00
2. Literature Review 40.00
3. Methodology 20.00

Text and materials required to be purchased or accessed

There are no texts or materials required for this course.

Assessment details

Approach Type Description Group
Assessment
Weighting (%) Course learning outcomes
Assignments Written Research (paper) No 100 1,2,3,4,5
Date printed 10 February 2023