Course overview
The 8000-level components of the Master of Research are not designed around units. The thesis and its revision together with core research activities form a single coherent research unit which consists of the following:
- Research Proposal: through your reading of the literature in your field and in consultation with your supervision team, you will develop a plan for your research project.
- You will attend department- and/or faculty-run seminars and engage in activities that develop your knowledge of the sub-disciplinary field in which you want to situate your own research.
- Literature Review: you will attend sessions that explain how researchers in your field engage with previous research literature, and produce a draft of your own literature review for your thesis.
- Research Methods: you will engage in discipline-specific training in the methods necessary for your research, determined in consultation with your supervision panel, that will develop the research methods you will use in your research project.
- Thesis: you will complete a research project and write it up in a short thesis of approximately 20,000 words.
- Oral Presentation: you will deliver a talk on your research.
- You will revise your thesis to address comments provided by examiners.
