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PSYC3310 Psychology: Specialist Research Topics [UG]
| Credit | 6 points | |||
| Availability | Semester 1, offshore teaching period (see Timetable) | |||
| Old unit code | 140.310 | |||
| Outcomes | Students pursue a particular area of psychological research activity in detail, acquiring and applying the knowledge of the basic scientific discipline on psychology in one area. They develop skills in identifying research questions, planning and implementing research, collaborating with a team, analysing and interpreting the data and communicating the results in a variety of ways. In addition, students learn how to give and receive feedback and become familiar with an area of research activity within the School of Psychology and meet some of the people associated with that area. | |||
| Content | This unit is taught by seminar presentation and a small-group problem-based research project. The seminar topics are offered in areas of staff expertise and are based on a set of target papers drawn from the current literature. Student seminar presentations consider the theoretical context of the research and evaluate the hypotheses examined, the research methodologies used, the results obtained, and the conclusions drawn in the research being considered. The small-group research project is carried out in the topic area of the seminars and actively engages students in formulating and implementing an experimental approach to a research question. The units give students the opportunity to explore issues of contemporary psychology in depth and to acquire skills in areas such as research design and written and oral communication that prepare them for advanced study in psychology. | |||
| Assessment | Students demonstrate achievement of the outcomes in a variety of assessment methods which include presentation of a written research proposal (15 per cent, group assessment), ethics application (5 per cent, group assessment), a research report (60 per cent), an oral presentation (10 per cent, group assessment) and class participation (10 per cent). Students are assessed on their ability to identify and formulate the key research and theoretical issues; to implement a piece of research, and collect, analyse and interpret the data; to apply the skills to research methods to a particular research question; and to communicate the new psychological knowledge clearly and effectively to different audiences. Supplementary assessment is not available in this unit except in the case of a bachelor's pass degree student who has obtained a mark of 45 to 49 and is currently enrolled in this unit, and it is the only remaining unit that the student must pass in order to complete their course. | |||
| Unit Co-ordinator(s) | Dr Allison Fox (semester 1) and Associate Professor Michael Weinborn (semester 2) | |||
| Location | UWA (Crawley), Singapore | |||
| Mode | on-campus | |||
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| Unit web page | http://www.psychology.uwa.edu.au/
[Some unit web pages are still under construction and will be available in 2010.] | |||
| Texts | As outlined by seminar leaders. | |||
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Credit history details
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Since 2007, 3 international student(s) completed PSYC3310. Home universities of the most recent students:
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| Outgoing students |
| No UWA student on an outgoing student exchange or study abroad program received credit for this unit in recent years. |
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