School Of Humanities And Communication ArtsAcademic or Practice-based ResearchWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 102293.1
Discipline: COMMUNICATION AND MEDIA STUDIES NEC
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 7
Credit Points: 20
Prerequisite
101962 Researching Convergent Media
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Students must be currently enrolled in a post graduate program.
About this Unit
From 2017 this unit replaced by 102521 - Media Research Project. This research-focused unit enables students to develop and produce a major work on a convergent media subject and theme, such as: communications and design theories and practices, data visualisation, content creation for convergent media, and digital humanities. The unit will cover methods for designing and implementing an academic or practice-based research project through workshops and exercises. Students may be introduced to techniques for: differentiating appropriate research methodologies; integrating research techniques into the planning and creation of a research project; field research, action research and research-creation; devising a literature review and constructing a logical argument; and critical reading.