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Unit of Study PROJ6002 - Applied Research Project I (2024)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Pre-requisites

    84 credit points in any SCU units

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

Introduces participants to research related to the real world and opportunities in industry. Participants will learn about the research process, identify a suitable issue for research, and identify suitable research tools to address the issue.

Unit content

  • What is industry research? 
  • Identifying problems for research
  • Reviewing literature to inform research approach
  • Designing a research project
  • Developing Quantitative Research Tools
  • Developing Qualitative Research Tools

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Gold Coast
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Melbourne N/A
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Online
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Perth N/A
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Sydney N/A
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Learning outcomes

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:

identify and justify management related industry problems, issues or opportunities worthy of investigation.

create and present an ethical and achievable research design based on justifiable and evidence-based methods

critically review and synthesise literature with regard to relevant research problems, issues or opportunities.

develop, pilot and apply critical research tools that have the potential to solicit required data to analyse a given problem, issue or opportunity.

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment

  • Participants may need to subscribe to a statistical program or online similar program.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.