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Courses Handbook 2015

This handbook contains information on courses and components (majors, minors, streams and units) at Curtin in 2015.
Information for the previous year's courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2014.

NETS3001 (v.1) Internet Studies Project

Area: Department of Internet Studies
Credits: 50.0
TUITION PATTERNS: The tuition pattern provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. Precise information is included in the unit outline.
Equivalent(s): 312123 (v.1) NET390 Internet Studies Project
OR
301059 (v.5) Internet Studies Project 390 or any previous version
OR
NETS3008 (v.1) NET390 Internet Studies Project
Prerequisite(s): 301052 (v.4) Internet and Everyday Life 102 or any previous version
OR
NETS1000 (v.1) Internet and Everyday Life or any previous version
UNIT REFERENCES, TEXTS, OUTCOMES AND ASSESSMENT DETAILS: The most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes, will be provided in the unit outline.
Syllabus: In this unit, you will plan for and undertake an individual research project. Under supervision, you will prepare a research proposal, complete a literature review and research and write a paper suitable for presentation at a conference or publication in a scholarly journal. You will not be required to originate primary data, but will be expected to conduct advanced research using existing primary research data available from other sources and also utilise and explore the analysis already published by other scholars. Students may be permitted to present the final outcome of projects using elements of online design or production; students may be permitted to link their project to tasks or duties within their employment or community. Entry to this unit is at the discretion of the course coordinator depending on results achieved in other units of study.
Field of Education: 100700 Communication and Media Studies (Narrow Grouping)
Result Type: Grade/Mark


Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2015 Bentley Campus Semester 1         Y
2015 Bentley Campus Semester 2         Y
2015 Bentley Campus Semester 2 Y        

Area External refers to external course/units run by the School or Department or offered by research.

Central External refers to external and online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area

Partially Online Internal refers to some (a portion of) learning provided by interacting with or downloading pre-packaged material from the Internet but with regular and ongoing participation with a face-to-face component retained. Excludes partially online internal course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External

Fully Online refers to the main (larger portion of) mode of learning provided via Internet interaction (including the downloading of pre-packaged material on the Internet). Excludes online course/units run through the Curtin Bentley-based Distance Education Area which remain Central External


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