HASS2000
10 units
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
- HASS2000 - Semester 2, 2023 (Callaghan) (PDF, 245.8 KB)
- HASS2000 - Semester 1, 2024 (Callaghan) (PDF, 218.5 KB)
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