Research Project A

Course aim

To provide students with an opportunity to learn about legal research methods, academic literature reviews and research project proposal preparation. This course has also been designed to extend and further develop students’ interest and skills in preparing a legal research dissertation.

Course content

This course will extend students’ understanding of and experience in the following areas:
(1) Legal research methods;
(2) Elements of academic legal research, including literature reviews;
(3) Distilling a legal problem into research questions;
(4) Legal research project planning;
(5) Research Codes of Conduct and Ethics.

Textbook(s)

Nil

Prerequisite(s)

72 units of Law Study.

Corequisite(s)

Nil

Teaching method

Component	Duration
INTERNAL, CITY WEST
Seminar	2 hours x 10 weeks
Directed Study	20 hours x 10 weeks

Note: These components may or may not be scheduled in every study period. Please refer to the timetable for further details.

Assessment

Literature review, Presentation, Proposal

Fees

EFTSL*: 0.125
Commonwealth Supported program (Band 4C)
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* Equivalent Full Time Study Load. Please note: all EFTSL values are published and calculated at ten decimal places. Values are displayed to three decimal places for ease of interpretation.