Handbook home
Research Methods (Social Practice) (CCDP40001)
HonoursPoints: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
For information about the University’s phased return to campus and in-person activity in Winter and Semester 2, please refer to the on-campus subjects page.
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
Availability | Semester 1 |
---|---|
Fees | Look up fees |
A weekly seminar that introduces and examines the relationship between research and practice within the context of practice-led research. This seminar acquaints students with a range of research methods and paradigms, covering key issues and practical skills relevant to the creative arts and music as relevant to artists with a socially-engaged, interdisciplinary practice. The seminar assists students in refining their research question/proposal and developing a research methodology appropriate to their project and its community context. In the seminar research skills, techniques and methodologies are demonstrated both by instruction and example.
Intended learning outcomes
On successful completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- demonstrate knowledge of key research concepts and skills relevant to their chosen project;
- critically evaluate contemporary debates and methodological traditions in the field of socially-engaged artistic research;
- articulate a methodological framework appropriate for their project;
- understand and apply codes of research conduct and ethical frameworks governing community-engaged research.
Generic skills
On completion of this subject, students will be able to demonstrate:
- the ability to engage in independent and socially-engaged artistic practice;
- well-developed and flexible problem-solving abilities ;
- the capacity to effectively communicate the results of research and scholarship by oral and written means;
- an ability to initiate major projects and formulate viable research questions;
- critical evaluation of relevant scholarly literature and practice;
- an ability to manage time and to maximise the quality of research and scholarship;
- awareness of, and facility with, scholarly conventions;
- awareness of the relationship with and responsibility to the cultural environment and society;
- respect for intellectual integrity, research and scholarship.
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
---|---|---|
Class Presentation and Paper (1,500 words equivalent)
| Throughout the semester | 30% |
Research Methods Essay, preliminary to the Research Paper
| From Week 14 to Week 14 | 70% |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Danny Butt Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 24 (12x 2 hour seminar) Total time commitment 136 hours Teaching period 2 March 2020 to 7 June 2020 Last self-enrol date 13 March 2020 Census date 30 April 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 5 June 2020 Assessment period ends 3 July 2020
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
Last updated: 31 January 2024