Course Title: Justice Research Project
Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Justice Research Project
Credit Points: 24.00
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
JUST2312 |
City Campus |
Postgraduate |
365H Global, Urban and Social Studies |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 1 2014, Sem 2 2014, Spring2014, Sem 2 2015, Sem 2 2016, Sem 2 2017, Sem 1 2020, Sem 2 2020, Sem 1 2022, Sem 1 2023, Sem 2 2023 |
JUST2312 |
City Campus |
Postgraduate |
365H Global, Urban and Social Studies |
Face-to-Face or Internet |
Sem 1 2018, Sem 1 2019, Sem 2 2019 |
JUST2312 |
City Campus |
Postgraduate |
365H Global, Urban and Social Studies |
Face-to-Face or Workplace |
Sem 1 2015 |
Flexible Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
JUST2312 |
City Campus |
Postgraduate |
365H Global, Urban and Social Studies |
Face-to-Face or Workplace |
PGRDFx2019 (XXXX) |
Course Coordinator: Dr Greg Stratton
Course Coordinator Phone: +61 3 9925 3021
Course Coordinator Email: gregory.stratton@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: Buliding 37.Level 4.Room 14B
Course Coordinator Availability: By appointment
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
Required Prior Study
You should have satisfactorily completed JUST2330 Applied Research in Criminological Settings before you commence this course. Alternatively, you may be able to demonstrate the required skills and knowledge before you start this course. Contact your course coordinator if you think you may be eligible for recognition of prior learning.
Course Description
This course will enable you to engage in a research project undertaken as an independent research project based on an issue relating to the justice sector. The course is designed as a capstone experience to enable you to synthesise and integrate knowledge, connect theory and practice as well as demonstrate your holistic achievement of program learning outcomes. You will creatively explore real-world issues. The course provides an opportunity for you to more deeply investigate a particular area of scholarship and/or professional practice in the justice and criminology field.
You will integrate work-based learning and academic learning, which will allow you to solve authentic development problems or address real issues faced by institutions in the field of justice and criminology. It may be possible for you to align your project with your professional work if you are already employed in the sector, or to conduct the project in conjunction with an organisation that you have a relationship with. This must be approved by the course coordinator.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
Program Learning Outcomes
In course you will develop the following program learning outcomes:
- Use strategic, critical, creative, and analytical thinking to develop creative solutions to a range of dynamic problems associated with crime management and the justice system
- Critically analyse, synthesise and reflect on complex theories, principles, philosophies and recent developments in the justice sector, both locally and globally, to extend and challenge knowledge and practice
- Employ a wide range of research tools, methods and approaches to produce new knowledge of justice issues and guide policy development and inform decision making
- Synthesise, rationalise, and communicate new scholarship and research to diverse professional and non-professional audiences
- Use a range of communication, conflict management, and leadership skills to work productively with a diverse range of people in justice environments, as well as within teams
- Use appropriate ethical ideas and reflective practice skills in addressing situations and problems in justice settings demonstrating cultural, social and environmental sensitivity.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Plan, design and manage responses to real issues within a justice context
- Engage with appropriate professional and scholarly literature
- Critically review and apply appropriate tools, methods and techniques in research design or in project planning and implementation
- Apply appropriate research approaches and methods to respond to an authentic industry problem or address a contemporary issue faced in organisations
- Present a project, justifying how this work informs your future professional practice as a leader in your field.
Overview of Learning Activities
RMIT University is committed to supporting student diversity and inclusion and provides support to students with a disability, long-term illness and/or mental health condition. Students can register with the Equitable Learning Services (ELS) who will work with the student to develop an Equitable Learning Plan (ELP) to be shared with their School. The plan will include any adjustments that are required for study and/or assessment conditions.
In this course, you will be provided with support to source a project.
Students cannot commence their WIL activity until they have received a confirmation email from the School, with a copy of their approved WIL agreement/Student Undertaking. Supervision arrangements must be outlined in the WIL Agreement/Student Undertaking.
You will be engaged in learning that involves a range of activities online such as recorded lectures, online activities and individual research.
Overview of Learning Resources
Resources will be available through the Canvas student portal, myRMIT, and RMIT Library resources. You will have the opportunity to contribute collectively to class resources by sharing your own research findings and sources with your peers.
RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems.
There are services available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the myRMIT student portal.
Overview of Assessment
You will be assessed on how well you meet the course’s learning outcomes and on your development against the program learning outcomes.
Assessment Tasks
Assessment Task 1: Project Strategy, 10%, CLO1
Assessment Task 2: Progress Report, 20%, CLO2 - CLO4
Assessment Task 3: Literature Review, 70%, CLO1 -CLO4
Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks.
If you have a long term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program manager or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.
Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures and instructions.