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Crawford School of Public Policy · ANU College of Law, Governance and Policy
This course is available for on-campus & remote (online) learning. All students participate in interactive, real-time classes. As an individual research project, this course provides students with an opportunity to acquire an advanced level of knowledge concerning their own choice of a national security issue and build the student’s skills in research and complex writing. Regular supervisory sessions will help facilitate and support the completion of the research project. Research projects will be supervised by the course convenor and supported by class and supervisory discussions. Students will identify their own research topic in discussion with the course convenor, present their research questions to the rest of the class and write an academic research paper.
Research Design (1000 words)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 4
Major Research Project (5,000 words)
Learning outcomes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
The standard workload for a 6 unit course is 130 hours including class time and independent study.
None Preliminary Reading Alexander L. George and Andrew Bennett, Case Studies and Theory Development in the Social Sciences, BCSIA, Cambridge MA, 2004 Gary King, Robert Keohane and Sidney Verba, Designing Social Inquiry, Princeton University Press, 1994 Richard J. Evan, In Defence of History, Granta, 2018 Lawrence Neuman, Basics of Social Research: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches -2nd Edition, Allen & Bacon, 2006 M. Wallace and A. Wray, Critical Reading and Writing for Post-Graduates, Sage Publications Robert K. Yin, Case Study Research: Design and Methods, 4th Edition, Sage Publications, 2008