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Unit of Study HEA93002 - Discovery and Enquiry in Health: The Critical Literature Review (2020)

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Unit description

Provides students with the opportunity to broaden and deepen their understanding of literature analysis and research design in relation to an area relevant to their professional practice. Students will produce a critical literature review that supports the need for either future research or practice improvement.

Unit content

  • Introduction: using literature to refine problems and propose further research or practice improvement
  • Searching literature systematically
  • Analysing, refining and managing search results
  • Presenting results
  • Critique and discussion
  • Providing rationale and justification for the next step

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
SCU Online
Study Period3
Study Period3

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 develop a research question and problem statement to guide critical examination of an area of personal interest, located within your discipline or course specialisation
2 discern between, and critique, the evidence supporting further research and practice improvement
3 analyse, refine and manage results of a systematic literature search
4 provide an evidence-based rationale for further research or practice improvement.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. develop a research question and problem statement to guide critical examination of an area of personal interest, located within your discipline or course specialisation
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  2. discern between, and critique, the evidence supporting further research and practice improvement
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  3. analyse, refine and manage results of a systematic literature search
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
  4. provide an evidence-based rationale for further research or practice improvement.
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.