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Unit description
Provides students with the opportunity to conduct empirical research under supervision in a specialised field of psychology. The unit will culminate in a presentation and submission of the thesis.
Unit content
- Conducting a research project in psychology
- Appropriate analysis and reporting of empirical data
- Reporting research findings as a presentation
- Writing a research thesis in the style of a journal article
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: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | analyse and interpret research data |
| 2 | communicate research findings to an audience of peers to a professionally acceptable standard |
| 3 | produce an empirically-based thesis in psychology. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- analyse and interpret research data
- communicate research findings to an audience of peers to a professionally acceptable standard
- produce an empirically-based thesis in psychology.
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
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