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Minimum English Language Proficiency Requirements

Students of non-English speaking backgrounds must have an adequate English language capacity assessed under the Australian International English Language Testing System (IELTS). The IELTS score required for admission to this course can be found in Schedule I of the JCU Admissions policy.

Special admission requirements

Will have obtained at least a Credit in any undergraduate research methods subjects relevant to their intended masters program.

Additional course rules

Candidates shall enrol in a pilot study for their intended master’s project as a minor project subject within the Graduate Certificate program.

Course learning outcomes

JCU graduates are committed to lifelong learning, intellectual development, and to the display of exemplary personal, professional and ethical standards. They have a sense of their place in the tropics and are charged with professional, community, and environmental responsibility. JCU graduates appreciate the need to embrace and be acquainted with the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples of Australia. They are committed to reconciliation, diversity and sustainability. They exhibit a willingness to lead and to contribute to the intellectual, environmental, cultural, economic and social challenges of regional, national, and international communities of the tropics.

On successful completion of the Graduate Certificate of Research Methods graduates will be able to:

Demonstrate an advanced theoretical and practical understanding of methodological issues applicable to a detailed theoretical knowledge of at least one discipline area by:

• Explaining the regulatory frameworks relating to research and/or professional/clinical practice within their discipline

• Using current and relevant literature as warrants for competing or dominant perspectives in research and/or professional/clinical practice

• Selecting and applying in-depth knowledge to the appropriate resolution of complex problems within the discipline

Demonstrate advanced skills in research methods by:

• Retrieving, critically analysing and synthesising relevant and current discipline knowledge as a literature review consistent with discipline expectations

• Communicating complex research and/or discipline concepts and plans to a broadly discipline-literate audience, using a variety of modes

• Reviewing, analysing, consolidating and synthesising knowledge to identify, and provide solutions to, complex problems.

Apply advanced knowledge and skills, with limited supervision, in research or evidence-based practice contexts, by:

• Critically reviewing and evaluating knowledge in their discipline and utilising well-developed judgement to identify unsolved problems in this domain, particularly as it applies to the context and peoples of the tropics

• Integrating and adapting knowledge to solve complex problems within their own discipline or related area

• Planning and executing a research project and/or piece of scholarship at a standard acceptable to the discipline and within currently accepted ethical guidelines.

Cairns

Townsville

Maximum time to complete

3 years

Course includes mandatory professional placement(s)

Not applicable

Accreditation requirements

Nil

Supplementary exam for final subject

Nil

Exit with lesser award

Not applicable