Research Methods 2

This subject has the following teaching availabilities in 2009:

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The student learns to discriminate qualitative and quantitative research methods and apply them to explore selected issues within creative practice.

This subject is not available as a breadth subject.

On completion of this subject students should have acquired the following:

• the capacity to develop and design research processes appropriate to specific projects;
• the ability to interpret, analyse and contextualise professional practice within a broader cultural field;
• the capacity to evaluate and synthesise data and other information;
• the capacity for a flexible approach to problem solving;
• the ability to access data and other information from a range of sources;
• the capacity to communicate in oral and written forms.