Course duration

This is a year long course. It commences in Semester 2, 2017 and completes in Semester 1, 2018.

Course description

This year-long course is organised into four modules: 1) Political Science as a Discipline 2) Creativity and Theorising in Research 3) Methodological Argumentation and Evaluation 4) Methods. Students will learn how to undertake creative and interesting research, driven by good research questions, grounded in the discipline of political science, using illuminating methods appropriate to the central research question/s. Students commencing in Semester 1 enrol in POLS6315 for two consecutive semesters and Students commencing in Semester 2 enrol in POLS6316 for two consecutive semesters.

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