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LAWS14004 - Dissertation B

General Information

Unit Synopsis

Legal professionals are required to solve complex legal problems by conducting research, critically analysing authorities through interdisciplinary knowledge and transmitting concepts to different audiences including clients, other professionals and public organisations. This unit further extends your research capabilities developed in Dissertation A. You will conduct a second research project into a legal issue agreed with your supervisor, critically examining the problem and preparing a written analysis suitable for publication. Your research in Dissertation B may be an extension of the research work undertaken in Dissertation A or a separate topic. Your focus may also extend beyond academic to professional journals.

Details

Level Undergraduate
Unit Level 4
Credit Points 12
Student Contribution Band SCA Band 4
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load 0.25
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites

Prerequisites:

Enrolment in CH75 Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and

LAWS14003 Dissertation A

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).

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Residential School No Residential School

Unit Availabilities from Term 3 - 2018

There are no availabilities for this unit on or after Term 3 - 2018

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).

Assessment Overview

Recommended Student Time Commitment

Each 12-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 25 hours of study per week, making a total of 300 hours for the unit.

Assessment Tasks

Assessment Task Weighting
1. Portfolio 20%
2. Written Assessment 80%

This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).

Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades

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Previous Feedback

Term 2 - 2019 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 5 (on a 5 point Likert scale), based on a 66.67% response rate.

Feedback, Recommendations and Responses

Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.

Source: Email
Feedback
External reviewers require more time to provide feedback on student work
Recommendation
Move towards a post-moderation model for the external reviewers. This will be useful for calibration and also provide good feedback for students. There is no professional requirement for a pre-moderation model.
Action Taken
External reviewers were not used this year.
Source: Email
Feedback
Students are interested in previous student work
Recommendation
Ask previous students for the opportunity to present their dissertations to future students.
Action Taken
Previous examples have been made available.
Source: Admissions
Feedback
Low enrolment numbers
Recommendation
This course will not be offered in 2020 in order to provide time to look at alternatives and to see if CQU should continue to offer a law honours course.
Action Taken
Nil.
Unit learning Outcomes

On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:

  1. Conduct legal research extending the research conducted in Dissertation A or on a new topic and attain advanced theoretical and technical knowledge of a specialised area of law
  2. Analyse critically, evaluate and transform knowledge of legal authorities and critical academic or professional commentaries
  3. Scope, design and conduct a legal research project
  4. Transmit knowledge and ideas in an academic or professional research context
  5. Collaborate with academic supervisors and peers in a research community, providing and responding to feedback.

Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
Assessment Tasks Learning Outcomes
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2 - Written Assessment • • • • •
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Graduate Attributes Learning Outcomes
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1 - Communication • • • • •
2 - Problem Solving • • • • •
3 - Critical Thinking • • • • •
4 - Information Literacy • • • • •
5 - Team Work • • • • •
6 - Information Technology Competence • • • • •
7 - Cross Cultural Competence • • • • •
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
• Introductory Level
• Intermediate Level
• Graduate Level
Assessment Tasks Graduate Attributes
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2 - Written Assessment • • • • • • •