Handbook

Research Thesis Extension is an inquiry-based learning course that allows students to deepen and/or broaden the scope of their thesis project. It is particularly recommended to students considering a research career and/or pursuing a research degree (such as a PhD). This course provides an authentic experience of the higher degree environment through the supervisor-student relationship, and the focus of assessment on developing a draft journal paper.

As in other the Research Thesis courses, the project a student undertakes must be a complex, open-ended problem that allows room for creativity, and the acquisition, analysis and interpretation of results. There must be multiple possible solutions or conclusions at the outset and sufficient complexity to require a degree of project planning from the student. The project will require students to bring together discipline knowledge and principles learned through academic study and professional experience. Students apply these principles to innovatively solve problems such as the development of a specific design, process and/or the investigation of a hypothesis.

Since this course expands the scope of your original thesis project (planned in CEIC4951 and refined in CEIC4952), you cannot take this course at the same as CEIC4951 or CEIC4952. Students normally take this course at the same time as CEIC4953 or in the following term. To enrol in this course students normally need to have a WAM of at least 75, as well as the approval of your project supervisor and the course coordinator. Apart from in exceptional circumstances, students should continue with the same supervisor and project as they had in CEIC4951, CEIC4952 and CEIC4953.