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Unit Summary

Unit type

Hons Unit

Credit points

12

AQF level

8

Level of learning

Advanced

Unit aim

Provides students with the opportunity to engage in supervised research in a specific area, thereby gaining experience of the professional role of a researcher in allied health.  The unit requires students to complete a supervised Honours project and communicate the outcomes verbally and in a written form appropriate to an identified audience.  This unit is the final unit in the embedded Allied Health Honours stream.

Unit content

  • Dissemination of research outcomes:
    • Written forms of dissemination
    • Verbal forms of dissemination

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.

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On completion of this unit, students should be able to: GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
1 Collect, assemble, analyse, interpret and present data collected for a specific Honours project
2 Synthesise literature, methods used and data analysed into verbal and written forms that clearly communicate the research outcomes in a professional manner that is appropriate for the intended audience

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

  1. Collect, assemble, analyse, interpret and present data collected for a specific Honours project
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA3:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
  2. Synthesise literature, methods used and data analysed into verbal and written forms that clearly communicate the research outcomes in a professional manner that is appropriate for the intended audience
    • GA1:
    • GA2:
    • GA4:
    • GA5:
    • GA6: