Availabilities:
| Location | Domestic | International |
|---|---|---|
| Online | N/A |
Unit description
Undertaking a piece of original research as part of a greater understanding of the professional historical experience, students work in partnership with a community partner. The research is closely supervised and is expected to result in both a piece of public scholarship and an account of the historiographical issues raised during its completion.
Unit content
- Nature of research
- Techniques and methods
- Public scholarship
- Managing research projects
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 | undertake a literature search focusing on the area of the research topic | Knowledge of a discipline | Lifelong learning | |||||
| 2 | work with a community to devise a research project | Ethical practice | Lifelong learning | Communication and social skills | ||||
| 3 | develop and clarify project roles with a community partner | Ethical practice | Lifelong learning | Communication and social skills | ||||
| 4 | demonstrate different research techniques and methods | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | |||||
| 5 | know how to propose, and then carry through, a major research project in community history | Ethical practice | Knowledge of a discipline | Lifelong learning | Communication and social skills | |||
| 6 | demonstrate oral and written skills in communicating research findings. | Communication and social skills | ||||||
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- undertake a literature search focusing on the area of the research topic
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- work with a community to devise a research project
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- develop and clarify project roles with a community partner
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- demonstrate different research techniques and methods
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- know how to propose, and then carry through, a major research project in community history
- GA3: Ethical practice
- GA4: Knowledge of a discipline
- GA5: Lifelong learning
- GA6: Communication and social skills
- demonstrate oral and written skills in communicating research findings.
- GA6: Communication and social skills
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.
Teaching and assessment
| Teaching method |
| Self-directed project (weekly) |
| Supervision 1 hour (12 weeks) |
| Assessment | |
| Community Engaged Learning Partnership Agreement | 20% |
| Report | 30% |
| Project report | 50% |
Fee information
Domestic
Commonwealth Supported courses
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Fee paying courses
For postgraduate or undergraduate full fee paying courses please check Domestic Postgraduate Fees OR Domestic Undergraduate Fees
International
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