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Communication
Enrolment code: ESV201
Offered: dist.ed: may be taken in sem 1 OR sem 2
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Covers two areas. First, the unit is designed to introduce the student to the requirements
of academic work, including the organisational skills and research behind the process of
academic writing. Second, there is a group of topics which provides a solid foundation to
inform the students’ areas of teaching practice through: an exploration of the
communication process, questioning the importance of listening, non-verbal recognition
and language and literacy in communication.
Staff: Ms L Harrison
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: intra-state optional tutorials (sem 1 only) in daily blocks, 3x7-hr; online
communicaton support
Assess: assignment
Required: Eunson B, Writing and Presenting Reports, Wiley, Brisbane, 1994
Recommend: Dwyer J, The Business Communication Handbook, Prentice-Hall, Syd, 1997
Courses: [E3G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Managing Learning
Enrolment code: ESV202
Offered: dist.ed: sem 1,
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Facilitators of adult learning must be able to identify the needs of learners, plan a learning
program, successfully implement and evaluate the performance of students to determine if
learning has occurred as intended. This unit encourages students to examine and
implement instructional and learning strategies which are appropriate for a range of adult
and vocational contexts and applications. Essential practical skills for beginning adult
learning facilitation will be developed.
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Staff: Dr C Owen
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: intra-state optional tutorials in daily blocks, 4x7-hr; online communicaton
support
Assess: assignment
Required: Burns R, The Adult Learner at Work, Business & Professional, Syd, 1995.
Athanasou JA, Adult Educational Psychology, Social Science Press, Katoomba, NSW, 1999
Courses: [E3G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Foundations of Adult Learning
Enrolment code: ESV203
Offered: dist.ed: sem 2,
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Provides a basis for understanding adult learning by introducing the key disciplines
informing adult and vocational education: adult learning theory, sociological,
psychological, economic, philosophical and historical. These introductions are studied in
the context of the current international and national socio-political milieu. Such
assumptions as pedagogy, androgogy, self-directed learning and critical reflection and
analysis will also be explored in the context of lifelong learning. The unit concludes with
an exploration of the policy foundations which influences the contexts in which adult
learning in Australia is practised.
Staff: Ms L Harrison
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: intra-state optional tutorials in daily blocks, 3x7-hr; online communicaton
support
Prereq: all year 1 subjects or equiv
Assess: assignment
Required: Burns R, The Adult Learner at Work: A Comprehensive Guide to the Context,
Psychology and Methods of Learning for the Workplace Business & Professional, Syd, 1995.
Recommend: Eunson B, Writing and Presenting Reports, Wiley, Brisbane, 1994
Pratt D, Five Perspectives on Teaching in Adult and Higher Education, Krieger Publ, Malabar,
Florida, 1998
Courses: [E3G] [M3H]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
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Teaching and Learning 1
Enrolment code: ESV204
Offered: dist.ed: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2
Special note: access to teaching/training practical work is essential; offered subject to sufficient
enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Blends a performance-based approach with reflection, resulting in a focus on praxis: the
integration of theory and practice. The unit aims to encourage students to become more
aware of their roles as educators, to raise awareness of current teaching, training and
facilitation practices, and to develop skills of critical evaluation of their own practice
methodology, and those of other adult educators.
Staff: Dr C Owen
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: intra-state optional tutorials in daily blocks, 3x7-hr; online communicaton
support
Assess: assignment and practical work
Required: Pithers R, Improving Learning through Effective Traiing, Social Science Press,
Katoomba, 1998.
Tovey MD, Training in Australia, Prentice Hall, Syd, 1997.
Courses: [E3G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Communication Strategies
Enrolment code: ESV205
Offered: dist.ed: sem 1,
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Continues the study of the informing disciplines of adult and vocational education
through an extension of the themes studied in Communication ESV201. The unit examines
the processes and contexts of socio-linguistic and social activities associated with
educational management, group and public spheres of adult and vocational education.
Spoken applications are studied in the context of the learning environment, in counselling
and interviewing settings, as well as for meetings and presentations. The written
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application is consolidated through effective identification of text types, of critique, formal
reports, submissions, technical manuals and educational materials.
Staff: Ms L Harrison
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: intra-state optional tutorials in daily blocks, 3x7-hr; online communicaton
support
Assess: assignment
Required: Eunson B, Writing and Presenting Reports, Wiley, Brisbane, 1994
Recommend: Dillon JT, The Practice of Questioning, Routledge, Lond, 1990
Dwyer J, The Business Communication Handbook, Prentice-Hall, Syd, 2000
Good TL & Brophy JE, Looking in Classrooms, 4th edn, Harper and Row, NY, 1987
Courses: [E3G] [M3H]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Curriculum Development
Enrolment code: ESV206
Offered: dist.ed: sem 2,
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Is designed to introduce students to the knowledge, process and skills required to develop
and implement inclusive curriculums in adult and vocational education. Unit content
includes the influences and processes involved in curriculum design, how to identify and
incorporate individual student needs and the development of learning and teaching
materials from national standards (where appropriate and available) in a specific adult
and/or vocational area. Students are required to relate the three stages of ‘define, design
and implement’ to their own work-based curriculums.
Staff: Ms A Ralston
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: intra-state optional tutorials in daily blocks, 3x7-hr; online communicaton
support
Assess: assignment
Required: Print M, Curriculum Development and Design , 2nd edn, Allen and Unwin, St
Leonards, NSW, 1993.
Courses: [E3G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
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Assessment and Evaluation
Enrolment code: ESV207
Offered: dist.ed: sem 2,
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Adopts a holistic approach to assessment and evaluation where the overall assessment
regime is related to the context and purpose for individual assessment items. In this way,
the various traditional and contemporary approaches to assessment in adult and
vocational education are given practical application. As part of this approach, the unit
considers competency-based assessment and evaluation in the more traditional testing
knowledge-base, and some other, newer assessment and evaluation methods and
philosophies.
Staff: Ms A Ralston
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: intra-state optional tutorials in daily blocks, 3x7-hr; online communicaton
support
Coreq: ESV203
Assess: assignment
Required: Gonczi A, Developing a Competent Workforce, NCVER, Adelaide, 1993
Guthrie H, Getting to Grips with Evaluation, NCVER, Adelaide, 1995
Hager P, Athanasou J & Gonczi A, Assessment Technical Manual, AGPS, Canberra, 1994
Courses: [E3G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Issues and Contexts in AVE
Enrolment code: ESV208
Offered: dist.ed: sem 2,
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
This final unit for year two has a twofold purpose: first to synthesise the many issues
relevant to the field of adult and vocational education through a critical analysis organised
around the distinctive and contemporary research questions asked in the field. One of
these issues is the way in which the informing disciplines are reflected in current policies
and areas of practice. The second purpose is to provide an introduction to the way in
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which the founding discipline bases have resulted in four significant and distinctive areas
of policy and practice within the more general field of adult and vocational education,
namely: Workplace Learning and Training (HRD), Community and Public Education,
Instructional Design in AVE, and Language, Literacy and Numeracy in AVE.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: online communicaton support
Prereq: ESV201, ESV202, ESV204, ESV205
Assess: assignment
Courses: [E3G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Conversion (A&WPT)
Enrolment code: ESV209
Offered: dist.ed: may be taken in sem 1 OR sem 2
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Extends the practical competencies gained by students in completing Certificate IV in
Assessment and Workplace Training with the theoretical and critical aspects of the
Bachelor of Adult and Vocational Education (BAdVocEd). This unit comprises 3 modules,
each of which deals with a specific topic that is associated with Certificate IV in
Assessment and Workplace Training and the BAdVocEd.
Staff: Ms L Harrison
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: no tutorials; online communicaton support
Prereq: Certificate IV in A&WPT
Assess: assignment
Recommend: Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4 of Print M, Curriculum Development and Design, 2nd edn,
Allen & Unwin, Syd, 1993.
Gonczi A (ed), Developing a Competent Workforce. Adult Learning Strategies for Vocational
Educators and Trainers, NCVER, Adelaide, 1992
Hager P, Athanasou J & Gonczi A, Assessment Technical Manual, AGPS, Canberra, 1994
Rumsey D, Assessment Practical Guide, AGPS, Canberra, 1994
Burns R, The Adult Learner at Work: A Comprehensive Guide to the Context, Psychology and
Methods of Learning for the Workplace, Business and Professional Publ, Syd, 1995.
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Harris R, Guthrie H, Hobart B & Lundberg D, Competency-Based Education and Training:
Between a Rock and a Whirlpool, McMillan Ed, Sth Melb, 1995
Courses: [E3G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Teaching and Learning 2
Enrolment code: ESV301
Offered: dist.ed: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2,
Special note: access to teaching/training practical work is essential; offered subject to sufficient
enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Extends the breadth and scope of ESV204 Teaching and Learning 1 in its focus on blending a
performance-based approach with reflection, resulting in praxis, which is the integration
of theory and practice. The unit aims to extend students’ awareness of their roles as
educators, raising their awareness of current teaching, training and facilitation practices,
and to develop skills of critical evaluation of their own practice methodology, and those of
other adult educators. These extensions occur in a specific elective studies area of practice
nominated by the students for study.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: intra-state optional tutorials in daily blocks, 3x7-hr; online communicaton
support
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv
Assess: assignment and practical work
Required: Brookfield S, Becoming a Critically Reflective Teacher, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco,
1995.
Courses: [E3G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Research and Methods in AVE
Enrolment code: ESV302
Offered: dist.ed: sem 1,
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
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Unit description:
Provides an introduction to existing research in adult and vocational education and to
qualitative and quantitative research methods. The merits and purposes of research
contributing to adult and vocational education knowledge will be evaluated in terms of
the traditional and contemporary issues and research questions for the field, identified in
ESV208 Issues and Contexts in AVE.
Staff: Dr S Kilpatrick
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: intra-state optional tutorials in daily blocks; online communicaton
support
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv
Assess: assignment and research proposal
Required: tba
Recommend: Eunson B, Writing and Presenting Reports, Wiley and Sons, Brisbane, 1994
Courses: [E3G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Workplace Learning and Training 1
Enrolment code: ESV305
Offered: dist.ed: sem 1,
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Workplace Learning and Training (HRD) is concerned with the establishment of learning
needs in organisational settings where HRD practitioners operate. The unit is concerned
with the planning and implementation of organised learning programs directed at
individual, group and organisational performance improvement and/or personal growth.
The key areas for study include: planning and implementing training and development
programs; organisational change and organisational learning; and the role of learning
within quality management approaches. Upon completion of this unit, participants will be
able to: understand the existing and emerging roles played by HRD practitioners and the
competencies required by practitioners and in related roles; and understand the changing
nature of workplace organisations and the implications for HRD practice.
Staff: Dr C Owen
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: intra-state optional tutorials in daily blocks, 2x7-hr; online communicaton
support
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv
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Assess: assignment
Required: DeSimone RL, Harris DM & Werner JM, Human Resource Development, Harcourt
Publ, Orlando, 2002.
Courses: [E3G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Workplace Learning and Training 2
Enrolment code: ESV306
Offered: dist.ed: sem 2,
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Introduces the key elements of the learning organisation and details the ways in which
HRD practitioners can participate in the development of learning organisation practices.
The unit argues that HRD practitioners are best placed to provide consultancy services
(internal and external) that focus on these practices. Upon completion of the unit,
participants will be able to: situate the range of possible HRD roles within the changing
Australian and international context; demonstrate a capacity to identify the learning needs
of different organisations; understand a range of issues involved in organisational change;
and appraise the opportunities for, and value of, HRD research/evaluation roles for
external consultants.
Staff: Dr C Owen
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: intra-state optional tutorials in daily blocks, 2x7-hr; online communicaton
support
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv, plus ESV305
Assess: assignment
Required: DeSimone RL, Harris DM & Werner JM, Human Resource Development, Harcourt
Publ, Orlando, 2002.
Courses: [E3G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Community and Public Education 1
Enrolment code: ESV307
Offered: dist.ed: sem 1,
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Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Provides the relevant practical, theoretical and research perspectives, acts as a
foundational introduction to Community and Public Education, and traces the emergence
of the sector and its role in society. The unit begins by establishing how the key informing
disciplines introduced in ESV208 have resulted in the features identified in this area of
practice. The unit will examine the scope of Community and Public Education and its
contribution to the educational, economic and social outcomes of the nation, state and
individual. There is particular attention paid to the need to establish a strategic research
base as one aspect of creating identity in the changing guise of the training reform.
Staff: Ms L Harrison
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: intra-state optional tutorials in daily blocks, 2x7-hr; online communicaton
support
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv
Assess: assignment
Required: Foley G, Understanding Adult Education and Training, 2nd edn, Allen and Unwin,
Syd, 2000.
Courses: [E3G] [M3H]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Community and Public Education 2
Enrolment code: ESV308
Offered: dist.ed: sem 2,
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Using recently acquired student experience and knowledge of research processes and
methods, the unit concentrates on skills that will enhance constructive negotiation as
advocate, change agent, or empowering agent to stimulate social, physical, economic place
and community action. It then assists students to design and conduct applicable public
promotional campaigns and suitable approaches, to raise awareness, disseminate
information support and resources.
Staff: Ms L Harrison
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: intra-state optional tutorials in daily blocks, 2x7-hr; online communicaton
support
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv, plus ESV307
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Assess: assignment
Required: Foley G, Understanding Adult Education and Training, 2nd edn, Allen and Unwin,
Syd, 2000.
Courses: [E3G] [M3H]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Instructional Design in AVE 1
Enrolment code: ESV309
Offered: dist.ed: sem 1,
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Begins by establishing how the key informing disciplines introduced in ESV208 have
resulted in the features identified in this area of practice. The unit investigates the nature
of instructional design, the history of the instructional design movement and the place of
instructional design in the context of adult and vocational education. Stages in the ID
process are explored before considering three further key issues which are impacting on
current ID practice: the implications of new technologies on the development and delivery
of instruction; the question of quality, with focus on evaluating the ID process; and the
re-assessment of ID theory and practice in the light of current understandings about
learners and the learning process.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: intra-state optional tutorials in daily blocks, 2x7-hr; online communicaton
support
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv
Assess: assignment
Required: Rowntree D, Teaching Through Self-instruction, Kogan Page, Lond, 1990.
Courses: [E3G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Instructional Design in AVE 2
Enrolment code: ESV310
Offered: dist.ed: sem 2,
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Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Looks at the elements of communication and project management that are important in
the work of an instructional designer. These are not the traditional ‘skills’ of
materials-based ID, but the essential interpersonal and organisational abilities which
facilitate effective outcomes.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: intra-state optional tutorials in daily blocks, 2x7-hr; online communicaton
support
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv, plus ESV309
Assess: assignment
Required: Rowntree D, Teaching Through Self-instruction, Kogan Page, Lond, 1990.
Courses: [E3G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Language, Literacy and Numeracy in AVE 1
Enrolment code: ESV311
Offered: dist.ed: sem 1,
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Provides the practical, theoretical and research perspectives which allow an
understanding of the many social, educational and workplace contexts of use in which
adult language, literacy and numeracy education occurs. Using the primary discipline
base of socio-linguistics, the overall direction develops the idea that language and literacy
is part of and results from the activities of the particular context, whether these are related
to vocational, functional or personal contexts of language and literacy use. The basis for
the unit is to establish how the key informing disciplines introduced in ESV208 have
resulted in the features identified in this area of practice.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: intra-state optional tutorials in daily blocks, 2x7-hr; online communicaton
support
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv
Assess: assignment
Required: All readings for this unit are supplied
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Courses: [E3G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Language, Literacy and Numeracy in AVE 2
Enrolment code: ESV312
Offered: dist.ed: sem 2,
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Builds on the groundwork laid in ESV311. The links are made between the contexts in
which educational practices occur in adult language, literacy and numeracy education and
the practical application of those skills. The key discipline base of socio-linguistics is
explored in greater depth. The underlying theme is that effective adult language, literacy
and numeracy education depends on an ethical and equitable blend of both generic and
context-specific practices, whether these are related to vocational, functional or personal
contexts of use.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: intra-state optional tutorials in daily blocks, 2x7-hr; online communicaton
support
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv, plus ESV311
Assess: assignment
Required: tba
Courses: [E3G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Online Learning and Teaching in AVE
Enrolment code: ESV313
Offered: dist.ed: sem 2
Special note: as the majority of this unit is computer-interactive study, students require computer
skills and access to the internet; offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Using the world wide web-based educational environment, this unit provides hands-on
experience alongside pedagogical content of online learning. The student has the
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opportunity to examine the relevance of a personalised learning environment,
collaborative learning, multi-media presentation of content, reinforcing content,
experiential learning and new approaches to assessment. As a learner, the student is
introduced to interactive communication tools of discussion boards, chat room,
whiteboard and email. As teachers/trainers in Adult and Vocational Education, students
have the opportunity to use these technologies as a teacher and designer of online teaching
using the course tool, WebCT.
Staff: Ms L Harrison
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: offered entirely online
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv
Assess: assignment and participation
Courses: [E3G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Managing AVE
Enrolment code: ESV314
Offered: dist.ed: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2,
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Considers the various organisational structures which exist in various AVE contexts and
issues of the management of physical and human resources, in particular the interpersonal
skills required in managing AVE. These include consulting, negotiating, working in teams
and leadership.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: online communicaton support
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv
Assess: assignment
Courses: [E3G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Research Practice in AVE
Enrolment code: ESV315
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Offered: dist.ed: sem 2
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Builds on ESV302, to provide students with the opportunity to demonstrate a synthesis of
the skills and knowledge from the whole degree, through undertaking a literature research
project.
Staff: Dr S Kilpatrick
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: intra-state optional tutorials in daily blocks; online communicaton
support
Prereq: all ESV2- units or equiv, plus ESV302 or equiv
Assess: assignment; write a review and develop and questionnaire
Required: tba
Courses: [E3G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
About Research in AVE
Enrolment code: ESV401
Offered: dist.ed: may be taken in sem 1 OR sem 2,
Special note: See also the related unit ESV402; offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Provides an overview of the meaning, place and relevance of research in adult and
vocational education, allied to a study of current research in the field. The question of
ethics is also considered. An in-depth review of the research frameworks is made and the
strategic plans of groups such as ANTA, NCVER and AVETRA are discussed in reference
to various research disciplines which contribute to the overall picture. In carrying out this
review, students identify gaps and needs for research, as wells as a particular area for their
own research work. Students also research the relevant literature.
Staff: tba
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: intra-state optional tutorials in daily blocks; online communicaton
support
Assess: assignment
Required: Burns RB, Introduction to Research Methods, Longman Cheshire, Melb, 2000.
Courses: [E4G]
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Doing Research in AVE
Enrolment code: ESV402
Offered: dist.ed: may be taken in sem 1 OR sem 2,
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
Encompasses the conduct of research projects. The unit begins with the framing and
focusing of research questions, moves to explore the link between problem and
methodology, encompasses research design and some basic qualitative, scientific and
discursive methods, outlines the kinds of in-the-field issues which need to be addressed in
the conduct of research projects, and concludes with data analysis techniques and
proposal and report writing. The research dissertation proposal is the major outcome of
this unit.
Staff: Dr S Kilpatrick
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: intra-state optional tutorials in daily blocks; online communicaton
support
Assess: assignment
Required: Burns RB, Introduction to Research Methods, Longman Cheshire, Melb, 2000.
Courses: [E4G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Dissertation
Enrolment code: ESV403
Offered: dist.ed: may be taken in sem 1 OR sem 2
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
For details, contact the Faculty
Unit weight: 50%
Teaching pattern: individual consultation with adviser; online communication support
Prereq: all level 400 units or equiv
Courses: [E4G]
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Dissertation (Part A)
Enrolment code: ESV404
Offered: dist.ed: may be taken in sem 1 OR sem 2
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
For details, contact the Faculty
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: individual consultation with adviser; online communication support
Courses: [E4G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
Dissertation (Part B)
Enrolment code: ESV405
Offered: dist.ed: may be taken in sem 1 OR sem 2
Special note: offered subject to sufficient enrolment numbers
Unit description:
For details, contact the Faculty
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: individual consultation with adviser; online communication support
Courses: [E4G]
Faculty website: <www.educ.utas.edu.au>
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