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Unit of Study PSYC4004 - Psychology Honours Thesis II (2021)

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Unit description

Provides students with the opportunity to conduct empirical research under supervision in a specialised field of psychology. The unit will culminate in a conference presentation and submission of the thesis.

Unit content

  • Conducting a research project in psychology
  • Appropriate analysis and reporting of empirical data
  • Reporting research findings as a conference presentation
  • Writing a research thesis in the style of a journal article

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Coffs Harbour
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Gold Coast
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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:

analyse valid, reliable data

communicate research findings at a conference to a professionally acceptable standard

produce an empirically-based thesis in psychology.

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