Approaches to Arts Research
PostgraduateCUR-COM5002025
Course information for 2025 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 23 Nov 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 1 Dec 2025
- Price from
- $2,735
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- FEE-HELP available
Approaches to Arts Research
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- develop a research focus in response to a significant concern
- evaluate a body of work on different research methods
- communicate the context, relevance and significance of a project idea
- apply academic integrity principles and academic writing conventions required for the discipline.
- Reading, thinking and researching
- What is research and why does it matter?
- Research using quantitative data and analysis
- Research using qualitative data and analysis
- Practice-led research
- Beginning your own research journey
- Who am I as a practitioner?
- What will I research?
- Unpacking your research goals
- Presentation matters
- Methodology
- Exhibition and wrap-up
Students in this subject learn and engage with a range of critical perspectives and research methods suited to projects in the fields of media, creative arts, and social inquiry to develop their capacity for identifying and developing project ideas that would be significant to their further study and to their professional or creative practice.
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- Essay on research methods (20%)
- Journal (50%)
- Exhibition of project ideas (30%)
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Entry requirements
Part of a degree
To enrol in this subject you must be accepted into one of the following degrees:
Core
- CUR-ACW-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma in Arts (Creative Writing)
- CUR-ADC-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma in Arts (Digital Communications)
- CUR-AFA-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma in Arts (Fine Art)
- CUR-APW-GDI-2025 - Graduate Diploma in Arts (Professional Writing and Publishing)
- CUR-ACW-MAS-2025 - Master of Arts (Creative Writing)
- CUR-ADC-MAS-2025 - Master of Arts (Digital Communications)
- CUR-AFA-MAS-2025 - Master of Arts (Fine Art)
- CUR-APW-MAS-2025 - Master of Arts (Professional Writing and Publishing)
Elective
- CUR-ART-GCE-2025 - Graduate Certificate in Arts
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
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Related degrees
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Graduate Diploma in Arts (Creative Writing)
PostgraduateCUR-ACW-GDI
Graduate Diploma in Arts (Digital Communications)
PostgraduateCUR-ADC-GDI
Graduate Diploma in Arts (Fine Art)
PostgraduateCUR-AFA-GDI
Graduate Diploma in Arts (Professional Writing and Publishing)
PostgraduateCUR-APW-GDI
Master of Arts (Creative Writing)
PostgraduateCUR-ACW-MAS
Master of Arts (Digital Communications)
PostgraduateCUR-ADC-MAS
PostgraduateCUR-AFA-MAS
Master of Arts (Professional Writing and Publishing)
PostgraduateCUR-APW-MAS
PostgraduateCUR-ART-GCE