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BUSS7901: Business Research Design
2025 unit information
The unit provides Business School HDR students with an understanding of research design as the foundation for effective and interesting research. It emphasises a systematic approach to developing rigour in research design, building theoretical and paradigmatic links from a research idea to the design of research methods.
Unit details and rules
Managing faculty or University school:
Business (Business School)
| Study level | Postgraduate |
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| Academic unit | Business School |
| Credit points | 6 |
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At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:
- LO1. develop an appropriate research proposal for a relevant research area and questions within your own disciplinary area of expertise
- LO2. understand the purpose of research design: methodologies; theoretical perspectives, and epistemology
- LO3. demonstrate ethical and social awareness and responsibility in personal decision-making and research behaviour within your own disciplinary area of expertise
- LO4. use a range of communications strategies to critique and debate with others about appropriate responses to complex and unfamiliar problems within one or more fields of business practice.
Unit availability
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Semester 1 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney | |
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Semester 2 2024
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Semester 1 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
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Semester 2 2025
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Normal day | Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney |
Outline unavailable
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