School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for Semester 1 2020 Units. Students will be notified of all approved modifications by Unit Coordinators via email and Unit Blackboard sites. Where changes have been made, these are designed to ensure that you still meet the unit learning outcomes in the context of our adjusted teaching and learning arrangements.

  • Unit Title

    Social Work Honours Thesis
  • Unit Code

    SWK5225
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    30
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Colleen Mary CARLON

Description

This unit consolidates knowledge of social work research and practice by providing students with the opportunity to implement a previously developed research proposal through project-based inquiry. Students work with a supervisor to carry out the research and to report their findings. Students systematically collect and analyse data in accordance with their research methodology and ethics clearance. Students write a scholarly dissertation of between 8,000-10,000 words to report research findings.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from SWK5124, SWK5224

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SWK4208, SWK5125

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Execute a systematic data collection methodology using established research methods.
  2. Analyse research data in a systematic way.
  3. Demonstrate an ability to present research findings within a theoretical framework and research tradition.
  4. Evaluate research findings for application to social work knowledge and practice.
  5. Demonstrate an ability to prepare a comprehensive report research in the form of an academic thesis.
  6. Write a cogent and clear dissertation.

Unit Content

  1. Data analysis.
  2. Data collection methods and processes.
  3. The preparation and submission of the Honours thesis.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Individual meetings with a research supervisor

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
ProjectExamination of Thesis by two independent examiners100%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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School: Arts and Humanities

This unit information may be updated and amended immediately prior to semester. To ensure you have the correct outline, please check it again at the beginning of semester.

Please note that given the circumstances of COVID-19, there may be some modifications to the assessment schedule promoted in Handbook for this unit. All assessment changes will be published by 27 July 2020. All students are reminded to check handbook at the beginning of semester to ensure they have the correct outline.

  • Unit Title

    Social Work Honours Thesis
  • Unit Code

    SWK5225
  • Year

    2020
  • Enrolment Period

    2
  • Version

    1
  • Credit Points

    30
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
    Online
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Colleen Mary CARLON

Description

This unit consolidates knowledge of social work research and practice by providing students with the opportunity to implement a previously developed research proposal through project-based inquiry. Students work with a supervisor to carry out the research and to report their findings. Students systematically collect and analyse data in accordance with their research methodology and ethics clearance. Students write a scholarly dissertation of between 8,000-10,000 words to report research findings.

Prerequisite Rule

Students must pass 1 units from SWK5124, SWK5224

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SWK4208, SWK5125

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Execute a systematic data collection methodology using established research methods.
  2. Analyse research data in a systematic way.
  3. Demonstrate an ability to present research findings within a theoretical framework and research tradition.
  4. Evaluate research findings for application to social work knowledge and practice.
  5. Demonstrate an ability to prepare a comprehensive report research in the form of an academic thesis.
  6. Write a cogent and clear dissertation.

Unit Content

  1. Data analysis.
  2. Data collection methods and processes.
  3. The preparation and submission of the Honours thesis.

Learning Experience

Students will engage in learning experiences through ECU Blackboard as well as additional ECU learning technologies.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Individual meetings with a research supervisor

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
Project ^Examination of Thesis by two independent examiners100%
ONLINE
TypeDescriptionValue
Project ^Examination of Thesis by two independent examiners100%

^ Mandatory to Pass


Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Academic Misconduct

Edith Cowan University has firm rules governing academic misconduct and there are substantial penalties that can be applied to students who are found in breach of these rules. Academic misconduct includes, but is not limited to:

  • plagiarism;
  • unauthorised collaboration;
  • cheating in examinations;
  • theft of other students' work;

Additionally, any material submitted for assessment purposes must be work that has not been submitted previously, by any person, for any other unit at ECU or elsewhere.

The ECU rules and policies governing all academic activities, including misconduct, can be accessed through the ECU website.

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