301539 (v.3) Design Research Methods 495

Area:	Department of Design
Credits:	25.0
Contact Hours:	3.0
The tuition pattern below provides details of the types of classes and their duration. This is to be used as a guide only. For more precise information please check your unit outline.
Lecture:	1 x 1 Hours Weekly
Tutorial:	1 x 2 Hours Weekly
Other Requisite(s):	Substantial completion: of a Bachelor of Arts (Design related) with a course weighted average of 65 percent and over.
Syllabus:	Formal coursework unit requiring attendance at classes and workshops and involving preparatory work and readings for each session. Seminars and workshops address such areas as questionnaires, the appropriate use of surveys, using the library, using and accessing electronic databases and the Internet, using the media, visual analysis, report writing and presentation methods. Full use of generic online resources on study skills and information gathering is required. Visits to galleries or other venues in Perth are recommended where appropriate to the content of a session, as are lectures and seminars within the University. Students to access relevant professional design and technological expertise that is appropriate to presentations.
To ensure that the most up-to-date information about unit references, texts and outcomes appears, they will be provided in your unit outline prior to commencement.
Field of Education:	100500 Graphic and Design Studios (Narrow Grouping)
SOLT (Online) Definitions*:	Essential *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
2008	Bentley Campus	Semester 1	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