Unit Synopsis
This research capstone unit enables you to apply the theories, content knowledge and skills you have learned to researching a problem of concern to a regulatory agency, criminal justice agency, government or other organisation involved in the prevention or regulation of criminal activity. You will develop a practical research project that will be conducted during a single term and be responsible for each of the methodological stages including developing a research question, understanding the ethical context, planning, project management, conduct of research, delivery and dissemination. You will keep a portfolio of key documents and reflect on skills and capabilities necessary for professional research practice in the field of criminology.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 3 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Enrolment in CL55 or CL75 and 72 cp of completed units. Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Literature Review or Systematic Review | 30% |
| 2. Report | 70% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
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Term 2 - 2024 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 0.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 0% response rate.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: Students feedback in class and via email.
Students appreciated the offering of night classes.
Continue to offer evening classes and continue to highlight to students that individual or small group Zoom sessions are available during business hours if they reach out to the UC.
Students in the 2024 cohort preferred daytime classes, so these were scheduled for lunchtime to ensure more students could attend.
Source: Students feedback in class and via email.
Students appreciated the chance to check their research questions and topics prior to the first assessment submission.
Continue to highlight the offer to check research questions and provide guidance, resources and thought provoking questions to help develop the students topic and critical thinking skills.
Students appreciated the opportunity to check their research questions with the UC.
Source: Student feedback in class and via email.
Students appreciated the wide range of topics available to build their capstone research topic.
Continue to alter the research topics available to incorporate student interests and current criminological trends.
Research topic guides were provided, however, students were free to pursue their research interests in the unit.
Source: n/a
Given there is no feedback from SUTE or student correspondence, and the unit will no longer run in future, there is nothing to add in this section.
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In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Analyse a complex criminology problem by developing and implementing appropriate research methodologies
- Design a research proposal
- Consolidate information pertaining to the research topic through a critical review of leading authorities, a literature analysis and the management of this information in a research data platform
- Work responsibly on a criminology research project and account for your own learning practices
- Engage in peer review and feedback processes within a discipline research community.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Literature Review or Systematic Review | • | • | • | ||
| 2 - Report | • | • | • | ||
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | ||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | |||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | |||
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | ||||
| 5 - Team Work | • | ||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | • | ||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | ||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | • | ||||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |
| 2 - Report | • | • | • | • | • | • | |||||
| 1 - Literature Review or Systematic Review | • | • | • | • | • | ||||||