IA5001 - Field Procedures in Indigenous Research

Credit points:	04
Year:	2005
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
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Available to students undertaking the Postgraduate Certificate, the Postgraduate Diploma or the Master of Indigenous Studies, or other postgraduate students.

This subject provides the beginning researcher with the skills to define a researchable topic in an Indigenous context, to find out what has gone before (do a small literature review), to design the research project and to collect some data for analysis. (The analysis and interpretation and report writing will occur in the next subject IA5002.) For this subject the student will write two small papers: the first a literature review and the second the data collection methods used. There are five on-line tutorial discussions during the semester. There is also a compulsory two-day seminar on campus.

Learning Outcomes

• critically analyse perspectives on qualitative and quantitative research with reference to examples of existing research conducted with and about Indigenous populations and their communities;
• develop the skills and techniques for analysing research and report writing.

Availabilities
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Census Date 31-Mar-2005
Face to face teaching (Consult School for on-campus attendance requirements)
Coord/Lect:	Assoc. Professor Felecia Watkin.
Assessment:	(20%); (30%); (50%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.