Units

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Sample subject outline - Semester 1 2013

Note: Subject outlines often change before the semester begins. Below is a sample outline.

Rationale

Please direct all initial enquiries to Student and Teaching Support Ph:07 3138 4520 or Email: hlthhonours@qut.edu.au

For HL53 Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Honours) students, Dr Mark Plenderleith will be your teaching team contact. Ph: 07 3138 1477 or Email: m.plenderleith@qut.edu.au

For HL50 Bachelor of Honours (Nursing), HL51 Bachelor of Human Services (Honours), HL52 Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours) or HL55 Bachelor of Health Science (Honours) students, Professor Neil King will be your teaching team contact. Ph: 07 3138 6444 or Email: n.king@qut.edu.au.

This component of the Honours program represents the preparation by the student of a body of literature relevant to the dissertation. The literature review is a critical analysis of the issues and arguments pertaining to the topic. In the case of those students undertaking a qualitative study, the literature review may also include a discussion of the literature pertaining to the philosophical framework. Thus, this unit provides the opportunity for students to identify and review the literature relevant to the selected research topic.

Aims

This unit meets the course aims of development of research skills by extending and refining skills related to identifying, retrieving, analysing and reporting on information relevant to your chosen field of specialisation.

Objectives

On completion of the unit it is expected that you are able to:

1. identify a comprehensive reading list on your research topic;


2. prepare a detailed and critical review of the relevant literature; and


3. write in accordance with accepted standards of scholarship, style and presentation.

Content

You will follow a course of readings in consultation with your thesis supervisor. You will also be instructed in the techniques of information retrieval, data collection and bibliographies relevant to the research area.

Approaches to Teaching and Learning

You will have regular meetings with your supervisor. The format and frequency of these meetings will be at the discretion of your supervisor.

Assessment name: IFN001 and Resource Log
Description: IFN001 and Resource Log - Formative assessment

Students are required to complete IFRN001 and an information resource log. This course aims to assist postgraduate research students in working toward their literature review or grant proposal by developing advanced information skills.

Due Date

• Assessment item 1 will be undertaken in Orientation Week by HL53 Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Honours) students.


• Assessment item 1 will be due in Week 13 for students in the following courses: HL50 Bachelor of Honours (Nursing), HL51 Bachelor of Human Services (Honours), HL52 Bachelor of Applied Science (Honours), HL55 (Bachelor of Health Science (Honours).

Relates to objectives: 1-3
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: See description

Assessment name: Lit Review/Grant Proposal Drft
Description: Literature Review/Grant Proposal Drafts - Formative Assessment

You will present regular drafts of the literature review/grant proposal by mutual arrangement to your supervisor.
Relates to objectives: 1-3
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: TBD

Assessment name: Presentation
Description: Presentation - Formative

You will prepare a short oral presentation (20 minutes) and present to a group of peers, staff and research students.
Relates to objectives: 1 - 3
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: Week 11

Assessment name: Lit Review/Grant Proposal
Description: Literature Review or Grant Proposal - Summative Assessment

Grant Proposal
HL53 Bachelor of Biomedical Science (Honours) students will complete a Grant Proposal. The grant proposal is due to be submitted to the HL53 Teaching team contact (Dr Mark Plenderleith) in week 6 of semester and will be assessed by three independent Academics/Researchers.

Literature Review
HL50, HL51, HL52 and HL55 students will complete a detailed and critical review of the relevant literature. The literature review (approximately 4000-5000 words) is to be submitted to your supervisor for assessment by Week 13 of the semester.

A grading schema of 1-7 will apply to this assessment item.
Relates to objectives: 1 - 3.
Weight: 100%
Internal or external: Internal
Group or individual: Individual
Due date: See Description

Academic Honesty

QUT is committed to maintaining high academic standards to protect the value of its qualifications. To assist you in assuring the academic integrity of your assessment you are encouraged to make use of the support materials and services available to help you consider and check your assessment items. Important information about the university's approach to academic integrity of assessment is on your unit Blackboard site.

A breach of academic integrity is regarded as Student Misconduct and can lead to the imposition of penalties.

Resource materials

As individually prescribed for each student. Useful references:

Australian Government (2002). Style manual for authors, editors and printers (6th ed.). Canberra: AGPS Press.

American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed) Washington, DC: APA.

Barzun, J. & Graff, H.F. (2004). The Modern Researcher (6th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.

Hart, C. (1998). Doing a literature review: releasing the social science research imagination. London: Sage.

Oliver, P. (2008). Writing your thesis (2nd ed.). London: Sage.

Slade, C. (2003). Form and style: research papers, reports, theses (12th ed.). Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co.

Strunk, W. & White, E.B. (2000). The elements of style (4th ed.). Boston: Allyn and Bacon also available online at http://www.bartleby.com/141/

Swetnam, D. (2000). Writing Your Dissertation: How to Plan, Prepare and Present Your Work (3rd ed.). Oxford: How to Books.

Risk assessment statement

There are no out-of-the-ordinary workplace health and safety issues with this unit.

Disclaimer - Offer of some units is subject to viability, and information in these Unit Outlines is subject to change prior to commencement of semester.

Last modified: 01-Aug-2012