Prepare for Confirmation has been designed specifically for students enrolled in a Research Higher Degree at either Masters or Doctoral level. This unit will provide you with the knowledge and skills necessary to clarify the research design of your proposed research project regardless of your discipline area. You will be guided through research terminology, writing at a thesis-level and the steps required in the construction of a research proposal. The unit has four assessments that will scaffold you through the process of writing Section A of the Confirmation of Candidature portfolio submission.
Level | Postgraduate |
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Unit Level | Not Applicable |
Credit Points | 6 |
Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 2 |
Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
There are no pre-requisites for the unit.
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). |
Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
Residential School | No Residential School |
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).
Each 6-credit Postgraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Task | Weighting |
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1. Annotated bibliography | 5% |
2. Literature Review or Systematic Review | 10% |
3. Research Assignment | 15% |
4. Research Proposal | 70% |
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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Term 1 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 75.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 44.44% response rate.
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.
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
1 - Annotated bibliography | • | ||||||
2 - Literature Review or Systematic Review | • | • | |||||
3 - Research Assignment | • | • | • | ||||
4 - Research Proposal | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
1 - Knowledge | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
2 - Communication | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
3 - Cognitive, technical and creative skills | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
4 - Research | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
5 - Self-management | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
6 - Ethical and Professional Responsibility | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |
7 - Leadership | • | • | • | • | • | • |
Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | |
1 - Annotated bibliography | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |
2 - Literature Review or Systematic Review | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |
3 - Research Assignment | • | • | • | • | • | • | • | |
4 - Research Proposal | • | • | • | • | • | • | • |