ATS4373 · Honours professional project

Overview

This unit provides you with an opportunity for a detailed supervised research and production exercise at a high level. You choose your particular focus and medium and will be required to complete and defend a scholarly exegesis of your professional practice and production.

Areas of study: Journalism

Offerings

The Handbook publishes no offerings for this unit.

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Demonstrate an advanced ability to identify and research an issue, and gather appropriate evidentiary material in the appropriate modality and medium;
2. Demonstrate an advanced ability to present in a clear, concise, accurate and meaningful way using a variety of elements in a coherent package;
3. Identify, observe key ethical and legal obligations associated with professional research, and reflect critically on their own and others' performance in this regard;
4. Reflect on their professional practice and production in a scholarly exegesis in both written and verbal modes;
5. Work independently and in groups to achieve their learning outcomes;
6. Demonstrate an ability to set and meet deadlines, and produce under pressure;
7. Demonstrate a critical awareness of the capacities, limitations and socio-professional implications of professional practices with respect to their chosen subject matter;
8. Demonstrate an advanced capacity at an Honours level for professional practice.

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 288 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.