Research Project

Unit Code:HAS304

Credit Points	Duration	Contact Hours	Campus	Prerequisite	Corequisite
12.5 Credit Points	1 Semester or Teaching Period	3 Hours per Week	Hawthorn	HAS111 Sociological Foundations or HAS112 Social Institutions and Social Change or HAS113 Sociology of the Environment; HAS317 Qualitative Research Methods (formerly HASP307 Qualitative Research Methods) or HAS318 Social Research Design: Principles and Methods (formerly HASP309 Social Research Design: Principles and Methods) and successful completion of 200 credit points. When undertaken in Sustainability Management or Community Health professional majors, HAS317 or HAS318 is not required.	Nil

Credit Points

Duration

Contact Hours

Campus

Prerequisite

Corequisite

12.5 Credit Points

1 Semester or Teaching Period

3 Hours per Week

Hawthorn

HAS111 Sociological Foundations or HAS112 Social Institutions and Social Change or HAS113 Sociology of the Environment; HAS317 Qualitative Research Methods (formerly HASP307 Qualitative Research Methods) or HAS318 Social Research Design: Principles and Methods (formerly HASP309 Social Research Design: Principles and Methods) and successful completion of 200 credit points. When undertaken in Sustainability Management or Community Health professional majors, HAS317 or HAS318 is not required.

Nil

Related Course/s:

A unit of study in the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Arts (Sociology), Bachelor of Social Science, Bachelor of Social Science (Community Health), Bachelor of Community Health, Bachelor of Social Science (Sociology) and Bachelor of Arts (Sustainability Management) (Formerly coded as HASP303).

Aims & Objectives:

Students will either learn, or improve their capacity to:

Design a piece of social research.
Identify clear research objectives.
Consider ethical problems and gain approval from the ethics committee where appropriate.
Set their research objectives in a context so that others can see the relevance of these objectives.
Identify and define their key concepts.
Operationalise these concepts in a valid and reliable manner.
Complete a literature review.
Develop a research argument (by posing a research question and answering it).
Execute a sampling and data-gathering strategy.
Execute a research plan and analyse their data.
Write a clear and succinct research report.

Teaching Methods:

Weekly seminar and independent research

Assessment:

Seminar participation (10%); Oral Presentations (30%); and Research report (3000 words) (60%)

Generic Skills Outcomes:

Students will improve their capacity: to manage their own time and work independently, to plan and deliver presentations, give feedback to their fellow students, to interact with respondents and other people who have evidence to contribute to their project, and to analyse research critically.

Content:

Students will carry out the research project which they planned in either HASP306 or HASP307. Students selected for the Sociology internship program (HAS308) will conduct the research they are doing for their employer under the auspices of this unit.