Overview

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Offerings

MURDOCH-S1-EXT-2023-2024
MURDOCH-S1-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S1-INT-2023-2024
MURDOCH-S1-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-EXT-2023-2024
MURDOCH-S2-FACE2FACE-2025-ONGOING
MURDOCH-S2-INT-2023-2024
MURDOCH-S2-ONLINEFLEX-2025-ONGOING

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Enrolment rules

This unit code is restricted to students of M1194 Master of Public Policy and Management, M1195 Master of Development Studies and M1266 Master of International Affairs and Security.

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Learning activities

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Learning outcomes

1.

Evaluate the key concepts and assumptions that underpin research in policy and development studies

 

2.

Critically examine the key concepts that underlie strategies that target contemporary policy problems and challenges

3.

Assess key research challenges that impact the capacity to generate effective policy outcomes

4.

Demonstrate critical thinking, analytical skills and appropriate professional teamwork.

Assessments

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Additional information

Unit content:

The unit will introduce you to the basic foundational concepts that are essential to social science research in policy and development studies. We will  ask to critically examine these concepts, see how these concepts are deployed in research and how the concepts are operationlised.