Course Title: Thesis Project 1

Part A: Course Overview

Course Title: Thesis Project 1

Credit Points: 12


Course Code

Campus

Career

School

Learning Mode

Teaching Period(s)

BUSM3870

City Campus

Research

150H Health Sciences

Face-to-Face

Sem 1 2008,
Sem 1 2009

Course Coordinator: Dr Wendy Harding

Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 1492

Course Coordinator Email:wendy.harding@rmit.edu.au

Course Coordinator Location: 108.16.18


Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities

Successful completion of Masters or equivalent program.


Course Description

This course aids the student in designing a research project that will be the basis for their doctoral thesis. The research design will then be submitted to the University for approval.


Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development

The outcomes of a project include a more knowledgeable and skilled practitioner, a contribution to professional and scholarly knowledge, and some body of work or change in practice (p.16, Policy and Procedures for the Degree of Professional Doctorate approved February 2002).


Enabling Knowledge and Skills for Capabilities

Applied qualitative research skills
In-depth knowledge of theory and practice in the systems psychodynamic or complexity science and quality approaches to organisations.


Overview of Learning Activities

The project will be undertaken as per the University regulations for the Professional Doctorate thesis (Policy and Procedures for the Degree of Professional Doctorate approved February 2002).
• The student is required to undertake an independent thesis project.
• The student will be supervised in his or her thesis project. A senior supervisor and secondary supervisor will be appointed for the student. (pp. 12 - 14).
• The project will be submitted for Ethics approval with the University Ethics Committee.
• Regular reports will be submitted as per the regulations (p.14)
• Students will attend a series of 9 seminars


Overview of Learning Resources

A mix of text books, Journal articles and web based material


Overview of Assessment

The final thesis will be examined by external examiners as per the regulations for the Professional Doctorate thesis (Policy and Procedures for the Degree of Professional Doctorate approved February 2002 pp.17-23). The thesis will be approximately 40,000 - 50,000 words but not exceeding 60,000 words.
Assessment for this Thesis 1 is
• An annotated bibliography of readings
• A research proposal for doctoral studies
• An ethics proposal