James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2002

TO6030:08

Masters Coursework Project

Townsville, Cairns

HECS Band 2

26 hours lectures. Full year.

Available to Master of Tourism students.

Staff: Mr A Birtles (Townsville campus); Dr N Black (Cairns campus).

Master of Tourism students work independently on a research topic with access to a supervisor on a weekly or fortnightly basis.

Students will be expected to prepare a research report of 70-80 pages in length. The material should be prepared to a high professional standard. Considerable flexibility in content and the approach adopted exists.

Students are expected to present their research at a student conference in September.

Assessment by research project (90%); conference presentation (10%).