School Of Natural SciencesMethods of ResearchingWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 300398.1
Discipline: OTHER AGRICULTURE, ENVIRONMENTAL AND RELATED STUDIES
Student Contribution Band: 2
Level: 7
Credit Points: 10
Assumed Knowledge
Library research skills, project design and management, an area of science.
Equivalent Units
ASC411 - Research Methodology & Experimental Design, SC808A - Research Methodology & Experimental Design, NU808A - Introduction to Research PHC, EH838A - Research methods: science in context, 300277 - Professional Praxis - Inquiring in Context
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Students must be enrolled in a Postgraduate course.
About this Unit
From 2015 students should take 401080 - Research Protocol Design and Practice. This unit aims for postgraduate students to apply scientific methods to a variety of research situations and questions; to understand the range of ways in which additions to knowledge in the applied sciences are initiated, validated and communicated and to prepare and trial research designs best suited to the particular type of issue each student wishes to address. The unit is taught through self-paced, self-directed learning. Class contact will be a three-day workshop, in the first and second half of session, respectively. Students will have the opportunity to field test their own research design.