Research Project (Indig. Arts & Culture) (MULT70005)

Intended learning outcomes

The subject will enable students to complete an independently-devised research 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, cultural frameworks and for the ethics of research and scholarship

· a capacity to collaborate with other researchers.