Overview

You will be required to conduct a comprehensive and detailed, in-depth critical review of literature relevant to your scientific research topic; identify a ‘research gap’ in the current literature; derive research questions or hypotheses (whichever is applicable) for testing; write a report, showing due regard to relevant stylistic conventions.

Offerings

S2-01-CAULFIELD-ON-CAMPUS

Requisites

Prerequisite

Rules

Enrolment Rule

Contacts

Chief Examiner(s)

Dr Mehdi Khedmati

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you should be able to:
1.

develop the ability to conduct and manage a planned study

2.

apply critical thinking, problem solving and presentation skills in activities dealing with a scientific research project

3.

critique relevant research and use this to write a comprehensive literature review on a chosen scientific research topic

4.

defend the identification of a ‘research gap’ in current literature and propose hypotheses or research questions for testing.

Teaching approach

Research activities
Active learning
Enquiry-based learning

Assessment

1 - Within semester assessment

Workload requirements

Workload