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Research Seminar (FINA90003)
Graduate courseworkPoints: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
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Semester 2
Currently enrolled students:
- General information: Graduate Research Hub
Future students:
- Further information: MCM website
- Email: vcamcm-enquiries@unimelb.edu.au
- Email: vcamcm-research@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
Availability | Semester 2 |
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A weekly seminar that focuses on discipline-specific research content and contexts. Students will discuss the relationship between their project and the major contours of international research in their field. The seminars will also address skills and techniques for introducing, structuring and staging research in a dissertation. Students will also present aspects of their research to their peers.
Intended learning outcomes
The subject will:
- allow students to critically examine the theoretical and artistic context of their research;
- provide students with an overview of contemporary debates in their discipline;
- where appropriate to assist students to establish complementarity between the two components of their thesis
- enable students to develop a research proposal specific to their discipline and project.
Generic skills
On completion of this subject students will have acquired key research skills, including:
· the ability to engage in independent and contextually-informed artistic practice;
· an ability to initiate research projects and to formulate viable research questions;
· a demonstrated capacity to design, conduct and report independent and original research on a closely-defined project;
· an ability to manage time to maximise the quality of research;
· an understanding of the major contours of international research in the research area;
· a capacity for critical evaluation of relevant scholarly literature and artistic practice;
· well-developed and flexible problem-solving abilities appropriate to the discipline;
· the capacity to communicate effectively the results of research and scholarship by oral and written communication;
· an understanding of and facility with scholarly conventions in the discipline area;
· a profound respect for truth and intellectual integrity, and for the ethics of research and scholarship;
· a capacity to collaborate with other researchers.
Last updated: 3 November 2022