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Courses Handbook 2011

This handbook contains information for courses and units at Curtin in 2011.
Information for current year courses and units is available at Courses Handbook 2010.

313694 (v.1) Internet Studies Project 691

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Area: Department of Internet Studies
Credits: 50.0
Individual Study: 0 x 0 Hours Weekly
Syllabus: The first of two units that allows students to conduct an advanced individual project involving detailed research into the social, cultural, political and/or economic aspects of the Internet and related new media, network media and social media technologies; the research may include. This project unit will be taken either in the semester before Internet Studies Project 692 or at the same time as Internet Studies Project 692; the two project units form a single coherent activity and may not be taken separately. The specific nature of the project, the methods of research, the analytical tools and the outcomes in terms of reports and/or publications will be determined on an individual basis for each student and may include professionally oriented tasks or components. This first unit focuses on the preparation and design of research, which will then be completed and presented in Internet Studies 692.
Field of Education: 100700 Communication and Media Studies (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*: Fully Online
*Extent to which this unit or thesis utilises online information
Result Type: Grade/Mark

Availability

Year Location Period Internal Partially Online Internal Area External Central External Fully Online
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 1 Y        
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 1       Y  
2011 Bentley Campus Semester 2       Y  
2011 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