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COMMERCE 7039 - Business Research Methods (M)
North terrace campus - trimester 1 - 2021, course details, course staff.
Course Coordinator: Gediminas Lipnickas
Course Timetable
The full timetable of all activities for this course can be accessed from Course Planner .
Course Learning Outcomes
- Apply an advanced understanding of business research design options, methodologies and analysis methods (both qualitative and quantitative), including respective terms, definitions and applications to the design, implementation and evaluation of a research project.
- This brief will include a statement of the resulting research problem and the objectives that need to be achieved to provide the information necessary to tackle the business problem and the decisions that need to be made respective to it.
- This will include (but not be restricted to), a literature summary at the necessary level of depth to ensure a thorough understanding of what is already known about the problem to be addressed, the proposed research design, data collection, sampling, analysis methods to be employed along with an indicative time frame for each stage of the research proposed and budget.
- Apply a broad understanding of issues specific to undertaking business research across international boundaries, including cultural, geographical, language and cost related challenges and respective strategies and approaches that may be employed to solve them to the design, implementation and evaluation of a research project.
- Recognise, and take account of, the importance of ethical conduct in undertaking research, including potential implications for business relationships, effects on potential respondents and sensitivity to cultural differences and honesty and integrity in analysis and reporting in the design, implementation and evaluation of a research project.
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This course will provide students with an opportunity to develop the Graduate Attribute(s) specified below:
Required Resources
Recommended resources, online learning, qualtrics data collection suite, “adapt” from the university of adelaide, nvivo qualitative data analysis software, other resources, online learning, learning & teaching modes.
The information below is provided as a guide to assist students in engaging appropriately with the course requirements.
Learning Activities Summary
Learning activities summary.
As per Course Timetable. Attendance schedule at Nexus 10, Lab 207, Computer Suite This course is taught in intensive mode. Each intensive will incorporate revision of key points from online lectures, including Q& A time; software workshops and practice; discussion; and occasionally Mini-Lectures in response to need for further understanding than that gained from the online lectures. Detailed breakdown of activities per session is available here, but any changes will be announced through MyUni.
Course Schedule - Session 1
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Course Schedule - Session 2
Course schedule - session 3, course schedule - session 4, course schedule - session 5, course schedule - session 6, course schedule - session 7, course schedule - session 8, course schedule - session 9, course schedule - session 10, course schedule - session 11, course schedule - session 12, specific course requirements.
This course is preparatory to the culminating Research Project. Each School and Discipline has specific Research Project criteria, so students undertaking the Business Research Methods course must prepare for their Research Project specific to their home Discipline’s criteria rather than in a uniform manner across the course. Students are responsible to be familiar with their own Discipline’s criteria for length and style of written work.
SMALL GROUP DISCOVERY EXPERIENCE
This course is inherently conducted for development of individual Research Projects. Teamwork and small group discovery may be part of the class activities, but all assessment and primary focus is on individual accomplishment.
Specific Course Requirements
Small group discovery experience, assessment summary, assessment related requirements.
- Discussion forum assignments are very interdependent - built on the concept of community of practice and peer support. ie: if you miss deadlines or mess up, your colleagues suffer as well as you.
- be timely - meet deadlines
- but be sane - when you can only do it by half-killing yourself - negotiate
- collaborate (note: acknowledged collaboration is a powerful professional and academic strength; UNacknowledged collaboration is called 'collusion' and is seen as cheating)
- have fun (if you don't learn to enjoy it now, it will be 'unpleasantly hard work')
- know that it DOES get easier - every piece you do makes the next one easier; every impossible-to-understand article you read makes the next one more possible and more readable - and your blogs will help you scale that wall faster and more easily than you can expect... the discussion board collaboration with your peers will make a world of difference. Therefore, your feedback to one another is critical!
Assessment Detail
At1 - engagement with the course; participation / attendance, discussion forums, blog (individual grade 10%), at2 – research brief (individual grade 20%), at3 – quantitative assignment (default 15%), at4 – qualitative assignment (default 15%), at5 – research proposal (40%), course grading.
Grades for your performance in this course will be awarded in accordance with the following scheme:
Further details of the grades/results can be obtained from Examinations .
Grade Descriptors are available which provide a general guide to the standard of work that is expected at each grade level. More information at Assessment for Coursework Programs .
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