Overview
Applied Positive Psychology Project A is the first of two integrated thesis units. In these units, you will plan and design an advanced research intervention project in a positive psychology/wellbeing and/or resilience-related field. You will have the option to conduct, evaluate and report your intervention. Stage 1 of the process will occur in this unit, and includes, under the supervision of a qualified Academic supervisor: • Undertaking a preliminary literature review to identify and support your proposal • Completing a project proposal for approval (including risk assessments) • Planning and designing your project, including proposed Methods, Participants, data collection and analysis sections • Completing or submitting an ethics application. In the unit Applied Positive Psychology Project B (Stage 2), following proposal approval, you will have the option of implementing your project or writing a Systematic Review.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisites: PSYC20036; PSYC20037; PSYC20038; PSYC20039; PSYC20040; PSYC20041; PSYC20042; PSYC20043
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 1 - 2019
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 0-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 0 hours of study per week, making a total of 0 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a pass/fail (non-graded) unit. To pass the unit, you must pass all of the individual assessment tasks shown in the table above.
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- Apply knowledge and ethical approaches from relevant research domains to develop a proposal for an applied Positive Psychology research project
- Apply critical evaluation skills to identify and evaluate relevant research literature for a research project
- Complete a relevant Human Research Ethics application (or an Animal Research ethics application where appropriate) for a research project.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Research Proposal - 0% | |||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||
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| 1 | 2 | 3 | |
| 1 - Knowledge | |||
| 2 - Communication | |||
| 3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | |||
| 4 - Research | |||
| 5 - Self-management | |||
| 6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | |||
| 7 - Leadership | |||
| 8 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
| 1 - Research Proposal - 0% | ||||||||
Textbooks
There are no required textbooks.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: American Psychological Association 6th Edition (APA 6th edition)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
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Module/Topic
Liaise with Supervisor to prepare thesis proposal and start literature search.
Chapter
All resources, including notes, videos, and activities, are available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Continue work on proposal and literature search.
Chapter
All resources, including notes, videos, and activities, are available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Continue work on proposal and literature search.
Chapter
All resources, including notes, videos, and activities, are available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Continue work on proposal and literature search, and begin to write ethics application.
Chapter
All resources, including notes, videos, and activities, are available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Continue work on proposal and literature search, and refine ethics application.
Chapter
All resources, including notes, videos, and activities, are available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Finalise proposal draft for submission to supervisor.
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Submit proposal draft to Supervisor.
Module/Topic
Incorporate feedback from supervisor into final thesis proposal for independent assessment in Week 8.
Chapter
All resources, including notes, videos, and activities, are available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Incorporate feedback from supervisor into final thesis proposal for independent assessment in Week 8.
Chapter
All resources, including notes, videos, and activities, are available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Refine ethics application. Continue with literature review.
Chapter
All resources, including notes, videos, and activities, are available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Final thesis proposal and Student Progress Report due.
Assessment 1 Due: Week 8 Monday (6 May 2019) 9:00 am AEST
Module/Topic
Refine ethics application. Continue with literature review.
Chapter
All resources, including notes, videos, and activities, are available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Supervisor Progress Report due.
Module/Topic
Supervisor and Proposal Assessor to provide Thesis Proposal feedback for integration into proposal.
Chapter
All resources, including notes, videos, and activities, are available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Incorporate feedback and refine literature review. Commence outline for Introduction and Methods sections of your thesis.
Chapter
All resources, including notes, videos, and activities, are available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Incorporate feedback and refine literature review and continue drafting Introduction and Methods sections.
Chapter
All resources, including notes, videos, and activities, are available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Ethics submission due in Moodle. If Supervisor permission to submit ethics application (Thesis Option 2) is received earlier, submission to the Ethics Committee can occur earlier.
Module/Topic
Incorporate feedback and refine literature review and continue drafting Introduction and Methods sections.
Chapter
All resources, including notes, videos, and activities, are available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
Proposal resubmission due (if required).
Module/Topic
Refine literature review and continue drafting Introduction and Methods sections.
Chapter
All resources, including notes, videos, and activities, are available on Moodle.
Events and Submissions/Topic
1 Research Proposal
For this unit, you are required to complete:
- a 2000 word (+/- 10%) proposal for a research study, and
- an ethics application for this proposed study.
The research proposal will clearly justify why the project would be important to implement (i.e., it is a meaningful and important gap in the literature, and extends the research knowledge in the study area of interest). Your proposal will include: Background (of the relevant prior research in the area of interest), proposed Methods, Participants, Data Collection, and Analysis (or equivalent) sections, and examination of ethical issues and potential risks.
The ethics application is completed on the relevant University ethics application form. You will complete an ethics application that is either submitted to the relevant ethics committee for approval, or a completed ethics application that is submitted to your supervisor and the Unit Coordinator.
Further task details for both the research proposal, including structure, and completion of an ethics application, will be available on the unit Moodle site.
Week 8 Monday (6 May 2019) 9:00 am AEST
Week 10 Monday (20 May 2019)
The project proposal and ethics application are non-graded Pass/Fail assessment items. However, in order to be enrolled in the subsequent Applied Positive Psychology Project B (PSYC20045), where you will complete the next stage of your project, your supervisor and the Unit Co-ordinator must pass the proposal and an ethics application must be completed to the satisfaction of your supervisor/Unit co-ordinator.
Your submitted research proposal will be evaluated by your supervisor and an independent assessor who will provide feedback, required/suggested changes, and any recommendations regarding the project. You will be awarded either a Pass, a Resubmit, or a Discontinue grade by your supervisor and the assigned proposal assessor. A Pass requires no changes to the proposal. Where further details are needed to clarify the intent and suitability of the proposed project, you will be invited to resubmit your proposal. In an instance where your supervisor cannot support the continuation of the proposed project, and the recommendation of the independent assessor is that the project will discontinue, you will be notified that the proposal has failed to be supported and you cannot enroll in Applied Positive Psychology Project B (PSYC20045) for that year.
Your supervisor will review your ethics application and give feedback before you submit the application to the relevant ethics committee or through the Moodle site. Regardless of your chosen thesis option (1 or 2) for Applied Positive Psychology Project B (PSYC20045), you will use the official ethics application form required by the relevant ethics committee.
- Apply knowledge and ethical approaches from relevant research domains to develop a proposal for an applied Positive Psychology research project
- Apply critical evaluation skills to identify and evaluate relevant research literature for a research project
- Complete a relevant Human Research Ethics application (or an Animal Research ethics application where appropriate) for a research project.
- Knowledge
- Communication
- Cognitive, technical and creative skills
- Research
- Self-management
- Ethical and Professional Responsibility
- Leadership
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
