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Unit of Study PSYC4004 - Psychology Honours Thesis II (2024)

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Unit Snapshot

  • Unit type

    Hons Unit

  • Credit points

    24

  • Faculty/College

    Faculty of Health

  • Placement

    No

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

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 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 presentation
  • Writing a research thesis in the style of a journal article

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Coffs Harbour
Dual Term3
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Gold Coast
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Online
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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 and interpret research data

communicate research findings to an audience of peers to a professionally acceptable standard

produce an empirically-based thesis in psychology.

Prescribed learning resources

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  • No prescribed texts.
Prescribed Resources/Equipment
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Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.