ACA411 - Creative Research Methods

Year:

2025 unit information

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 1: Burwood (Melbourne), Waterfront (Geelong), Community Based Delivery (CBD)*

Credit point(s): 1
EFTSL value: 0.125
Cohort rule: This unit is only available to students enrolled in A450, A452
Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite: Nil
Incompatible with:

ACA711

Study commitment

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the teaching period undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

This will include educator guided online learning activities within the unit site.

Scheduled learning activities - online

1 x 2-hour online seminar per week in weeks 1-3, 5-6, 9-11

1 x 1-hour online practical experiences per week in weeks 1-3, 5-6, 9-11

1 x 3-hour practical experience in weeks 4 and 7

Note:

*Community Based Delivery (CBD) is for National Indigenous Knowledges, Education, Research and Innovation NIKERI Institute students only.

Content

This unit will introduce students to the way in which creative practice is applied within a research project. Students will engage with the language for creative research and learn how key concepts and approaches are applied. Students will formulate research questions and design their creative practice research project. Skills in written and oral critical thinking are honed as students engage with the foundations of thinking through making that is fundamental to creative practice research. The unit will culminate in the production of the formal research proposal and a visual essay.

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