Honours presentation Version 1

proposed whole of school honours

honours working group

(draft, April 2010)[email protected]

Friday, 14 May 2010

School wide invitation to participate in a planning day

the program structure that follows was one of the main outcomes of the day — the other was the decision to have a single, school wide program

from the planning day participants a working group formed to have the new honours program active from 2012

backgroundFriday, 14 May 2010

what is needed to be the best honours program in Australia?

what is needed to have an honours program relevant to every program & discipline in the school?

how do we make sure that we ensure students achieve the most significant outcomes from an honours year?

what should those outcomes be?

what should honours be, now?

baselineFriday, 14 May 2010

honours should provide pathways to industry & further research

honours should provide students with industry abilities

honours should innovate in advance of industry

honours must require critical thinking & the application of ideas to outcomes

honours should equip students with skills for life long, relevant professional learning

outcomes can include thesis, project, and portfolio

assumptionsFriday, 14 May 2010

Honours is an opportunity for excellent Media & Communication

students to extend and deepen their knowledge, skills and practice

through an intensive, research based year of creative inquiry, problem

solving and scholarly application of learning that enables our students to

become leaders and knowledge creators in their field, industry and the

world.

draft guideFriday, 14 May 2010

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Studio 1a Studio 2a Studio 3a Studio 4a Studio 1b Studio 2b Studio 3b Studio 4b

subjectsFriday, 14 May 2010

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Studio 1 Studio 2 Studio 3 Studio 4 Studio 1 Studio 2 Studio 3 Studio 4

• PBL

• what is knowledge in your discipline?

• what counts as a proposition?

• why?

• what is the role of reflective practice in

research?

• how do you become a knowledge producer

in you discipline or community of practice?

• how does research require (and produce)

tacit knowledge?

• requires assessable outcomes

• develop research proposition

• 12 credit points

• required for compliance with University

policy

what is research?Friday, 14 May 2010





Studio 1a Studio 2a Studio 3a Studio 4a Studio 1b Studio 2b Studio 3b Studio 4b

• interdisciplinary

• is studio (or lab) based

• revolves around specific themes

• themes defined by studio leader

• respond/reflect existing (or emerging) research themes

• must support multiplicity of outcomes & practices

• continues across the year

• involves research into the theme

• involves development of relevant research outcomes

• studio leader provides project guidance

• can include discipline or practice defined cohorts

• requires assessable outcomes

• is time tabled

• 12 credit points

what is the studio?Friday, 14 May 2010


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• working with supervisor & studio leader

• disciplinary specialisation

• ‘doing’ the research (thesis, project, exegesis)

• total of 48 credit points (50% of load)

• single artefact or portfolio

• tied to Studio theme and cohort

• individual and/or collaborative

• reflects expectation of the quality and scale of honours outcomes

• no scheduled class time

• work is examined

what happens in research?Friday, 14 May 2010






• nomenclature (one degree or two?)

• how to support staff and students in this move to studio (or lab) based and defined research?

• how to manage the relationship between supervisor, studio leader, and student?

• is Studio + Research Practice actually more than 48 credit points of research?

• how can Communication Histories and Futures not be the same as any other communications course here or at any other university?

• should there be a half day workshop to work through curriculum, pedagogy and structural issues?

problemsFriday, 14 May 2010

Honours presentation Version 1

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