Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Coffs Harbour | ||
| Gold Coast |
Unit description
Provides students with the opportunity to obtain experience in designing empirical research, under supervision, in a specialised field of psychology. The unit will lead to a critical review of the research methodological and conceptual literature and a research proposal.
Unit content
- Development of a research question
- Completion of a literature review
- Design a research project
- Completion of a research proposal
- Involvement and understanding of writing an ethics proposal
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | GA1 | GA2 | GA3 | GA4 | GA5 | GA6 | GA7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Systematically and critically analyse empirical literature in psychology | Intellectual rigour | Communication and social skills | |||||
| 2 | Compose a literature review | Intellectual rigour | Communication and social skills | |||||
| 3 | Design a research project to address a psychological question or hypothesis | Intellectual rigour | ||||||
| 4 | Design a means for collecting empirical data pertaining to a research question | Intellectual rigour | Communication and social skills | |||||
| 5 | Produce a research proposal that outlines the rationale for the research question, and which specifies appropriate methodologies and analyses | Intellectual rigour | Ethical practice | Communication and social skills | ||||
| 6 | Demonstrate an understanding of the processes of submitting an ethics application to the SCU HREC. | Intellectual rigour | Ethical practice | Communication and social skills | ||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- Systematically and critically analyse empirical literature in psychology
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- Compose a literature review
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- Design a research project to address a psychological question or hypothesis
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- Design a means for collecting empirical data pertaining to a research question
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- Produce a research proposal that outlines the rationale for the research question, and which specifies appropriate methodologies and analyses
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- Demonstrate an understanding of the processes of submitting an ethics application to the SCU HREC.
- GA1: Intellectual rigour
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA6: Communication and social skills
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Lecture on-site 2 hrs (12 wks) |
| Tutorial online 10 hrs (Across the session) |
| Assessment | |
| Annotated bibliography | SR |
| Research Proposal | SR |
| Literature review | 100% |
| Teaching method |
| Lecture on-site 2 hrs (12 wks) |
| Tutorial online 10 hrs (Across the session) |
| Assessment | |
| Annotated bibliography | SR |
| Research Proposal | SR |
| Literature review | 100% |
Fee information
Domestic
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International
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