James Cook University Subject Handbook - 2003

MA5051:06

Research Project B

Townsville HECS Band 2

Semester 1 or 2.

Available to honours or postgraduate students in mathematics.

The student will undertake a research project on a topic approved by the Head of School and selected in consultation with their supervisor. The supervisor will normally be a staff member in Mathematics and Statistics.

Learning Objectives:

  1. give the student experience at undertaking a research project in an area of mathematics;
  2. give the student experience in presenting the results of a research investigation in the form of a written thesis.

Assessment will be based on the thesis describing the project. Where the subject forms the first part of a major project, the assessment will be based on the work to date. This could include the research proposal, literature review and preliminary work as appropriate.