Available in 2024
Course code

HASS2000

Units

10 units

Level

2000 level

Course handbook

Description

Humanities knowledge is essential to the world around us. In the humanities different disciplines and fields of study each contribute to knowledge creation by investigating people’s choices and experiences in the past and present, with an eye to the future. Methods are the frameworks and practices that guide these investigations. This course builds on HASS1000 by thinking with a methods-based approach to evaluate and compare how evidence of people’s lives is shaped into knowledge. The course develops understanding of the purpose and standards of making knowledge claims that can be accepted as true, ethical and inclusive. Students completing this course will gain an effective research skills toolkit for designing projects.


Availability2024 Course Timetables

Callaghan

  • Semester 1 - 2024

Online

  • Semester 2 - 2024

Learning outcomes

On successful completion of the course students will be able to:

1. Identify how evidence is collected and deployed to make knowledge claims in humanities disciplines.

2. Describe various humanities research methods and reflect critically on their purpose and standards.

3. Explain what it means to do research ethically and inclusively.

4. Pose a research question and develop an appropriate research plan to investigate it.


Content

Topics may include:

  • Understanding types of evidence
  • Skills in finding and presenting evidence
  • Connecting evidence types with Humanities specialisms
  • Scientific methods in the Humanities
  • Indigenous challenges to Western research methods
  • Ethics, diversity and inclusion in research
  • Methods-based principles of project design

Assumed knowledge

HASS1000


Assessment items

Log / Workbook: Workshop Notes

Essay: Reflective Essay

Proposal / Plan: Project Proposal


Contact hours

Semester 1 - 2024 - Callaghan

Lecture-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 1 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1
Workshop-1
  • Face to Face On Campus 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1

Semester 2 - 2024 - Online

Lectorial-1
  • Online 2 hour(s) per week(s) for 12 week(s) starting in week 1

Course outline