Major Project Part A
Postgraduate
TAS-CAM723 2025Course information for 2025 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 16 Feb 2025
- Entry requirements
- Part of a degree
- Duration
- 14 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025,
- 21 July 2025
- Price from
- $2,923
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
Major Project Part A
About this subject
On successful completion of this subject, students will be able to:
- Generate questions/aims/hypotheses based on experience, expertise and literature.
- Collect and record information/ data from self-selected sources, choosing or devising an appropriate methodology with self-structured guidelines.
- Evaluate information/data and inquiry process rigorously using self-generated criteria based on experience, expertise and the literature, and reflect insightfully to renew others’ processes.
- Organise information/data using self-determined structures and management of processes (including team function).
- Analyse and synthesise information/data to generalise or abstract knowledge that addresses self-or-group-identified gaps in understanding.
- Select appropriate language and genre to extend the knowledge of a range of audiences and apply innovatively the knowledge developed to multiple contexts.
- Module 1: Research Ethics
- Module 2: Research Practicalities
- Module 3: Scientific Writing
Major Projects Part A and B (TAS-CAM724) are the final part of your Masters degree that provide an opportunity to undertake a substantial piece of original, independent research, building on and focused on the topic or topics that are of particular interest to you and which you wish to explore in greater depth. The Major Project can take the form of either an empirical research project, analysis of an existing dataset, a systematic review of the literature, or a critical-interpretative analysis of existing knowledge within the student's specialist field. Major Projects can be carried out in the workplace if appropriate and with agreement.
- Presentation (assessed in CAM724) (20%)
- Project Status Report (with GANTT chart) (20%)
- Draft Manuscript (assessed in CAM724) (60%)
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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:
Elective
- TAS-AQS-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
- TAS-CDP-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Communicable Disease Prevention)
- TAS-CUC-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Community and Urgent Care)
- TAS-CCR-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Critical Care and Retrieval)
- TAS-APD-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Dementia)
- TAS-ADH-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
- TAS-APG-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Governance)
- TAS-AHE-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Health Economics)
- TAS-HSI-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
- TAS-APH-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
- TAS-AMS-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Medication Safety)
- TAS-AOP-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
- TAS-AOR-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Organisational Resilience)
- TAS-ASC-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Strategic Communication)
- TAS-SCL-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Supply Chain and Logistics)
- TAS-AWP-MAS-2025 - Master of Advanced Practice (Workplace Psychology)
Prior study
You must either have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject, or currently be enrolled in the following subject(s) in a prior study period; or enrol in the following subject(s) to study prior to this subject:
Please note that your enrolment in this subject is conditional on successful completion of these prerequisite subject(s). If you study the prerequisite subject(s) in the study period immediately prior to studying this subject, your result for the prerequisite subject(s) will not be finalised prior to the close of enrolment. In this situation, should you not complete your prerequisite subject(s) successfully you should not continue with your enrolment in this subject. If you are currently enrolled in the prerequisite subject(s) and believe you may not complete these all successfully, it is your responsibility to reschedule your study of this subject to give you time to re-attempt the prerequisite subject(s).
Others
Conditional Requisite: At least 100 credit points of study at 400 level or above including CAM720
Additional requirements
- Other requirements - Teaching Arrangement: Independent Learning 8 hours weekly; Supervision meetings 1 hour fortnightly
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
Master of Advanced Practice ( Applied Quality and Safety)
Postgraduate
TAS-AQS-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Communicable Disease Prevention)
Postgraduate
TAS-CDP-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Community and Urgent Care)
Postgraduate
TAS-CUC-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Critical Care and Retrieval)
Postgraduate
TAS-CCR-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Dementia)
Postgraduate
TAS-APD-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Digital Health)
Postgraduate
TAS-ADH-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Governance)
Postgraduate
TAS-APG-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Health Economics)
Postgraduate
TAS-AHE-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Health Service Improvement)
Postgraduate
TAS-HSI-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Healthcare Education)
Postgraduate
TAS-APH-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Medication Safety)
Postgraduate
TAS-AMS-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Organisational Performance)
Postgraduate
TAS-AOP-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Organisational Resilience)
Postgraduate
TAS-AOR-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Strategic Communication)
Postgraduate
TAS-ASC-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Supply Chain and Logistics)
Postgraduate
TAS-SCL-MASMaster of Advanced Practice (Workplace Psychology)
Postgraduate
TAS-AWP-MAS