ARBE4121B

Research in the Built Environment B

Faculty of Engineering and Built Environment School of Architecture and Built Environment

20 Units 4000 Level Course

Available in 2012

Callaghan Campus	Semester 2
Distance Education - Callaghan	Semester 2
TMC Educational Group	Semester 2

Previously offered in 2011, 2010, 2009

This course is Part B of a multi-term sequence. Part A, ARBE4121A Research in the Built Environment A must be completed prior to commencement of this course to meet the requirements of the sequence.

Provides the students with the opportunity to consider the philosophical, theoretical, ethical, methodological and analytical concepts and processes associated with academic research activities within the built environment disciplines related to the practice of architecture and construction management. Students are given the opportunity to define, articulate, develop, evaluate, investigate, conduct, document a self-identified research question through the critical and creative analysis of either architectural or construction management and economics practice, theory and methodologies and justify a theoretical and methodological approach to investigating the question.

Objectives

On completion of this course students should be able to:

- Plan and conduct an independent research investigation according to the academic conventions of the built environment disciplines through interaction with a supervisor

- Evaluate and articulate the ethical responsibilities associated with integrity in the production of knowledge and design a research project that responds to cultural, credibility, reliability, confidentiality, power, truth and authenticity constructs associated with the research process

- Defend creatively and logically through the development and documentation of a fully integrated graphic and textual dissertation the analysis and discussion of each stage of the research process of a selected built environment topic.

Content

Student - supervisor relationships
- Research project management
- Ethical Research
- Data collection
- Data analysis
- Data management
- Argument & Evidence
- Critical Thinking, Reasoning and Writing
- Research Writing
- Report Production and Presentation
- Research in practice

Replacing Course(s)

ARBE4120 Research in the Built Environment B

Transition

Students having completed ARBE3101 will move directly into ARBE4121 Research in the Built Environment B. Students who have previously failed ARBE3101 Research in the Built Environment 1 will need to complete ARBE4121 Part A Research in the Built Environment A.
Students who have previously failed ARBE4120 Research in the Built Environment 1 will need to enroll in ARBE4121 Research In the Built Environment B.

Industrial Experience

Assumed Knowledge

ARBE3101 & ARBE4121A

Modes of Delivery

Distance Learning : IT Based
External Mode
Flexible Delivery / Student Centred Learning
Internal Mode

Teaching Methods

Lecture
Tutorial

Assessment Items

Essays / Written Assignments	Written assignment documenting the data/information collection and analysis techniques which will be used and a discussion on the ethical responsibilities associated with the production of knowledge in relation to the project. If primary data is to be collected this will include an Ethics Application. If non empirical methods are used this will include a discussion on relevant information sources and techniques to analyse the information.
Essays / Written Assignments	Written assignment documenting rationale, research problem definition, literature analysis, conceptual model and/or interpretive framework, research question, assumptions, proposition/hypothesis, methodology, methods and techniques, limitations, results, discussion and conclusion. The assignment is to be written in an academic and scholarly writing style fully referenced according to discipline's standards and integrated fully with graphics to explain creatively and logically the thesis argument.
Other: (please specify)	Activities/Written Assignment - completion of a set of activities associated with the research process, and a description of the self assessment of own study needs and establishment of a program of study to manage own research project.

Contact Hours

Tutorial: for 2 hour(s) per Week for 13 weeks

Compulsory Components

Requisite by Enrolment	Bachelor of Architecture and Bachelor of Construction Management (Building).

Timetables

2012 Course Timetables for ARBE4121B