Overview

The aims of this unit are to prepare students to participate in scientific and technical conferences, including the process or preparing and submitting papers, reviewing papers and presenting results, preparing and writing literature reviews and communicating with a broad range of audiences’ information about their research.

Requisites

Prerequisites
ICT40005 Research Methods
Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
29-July-2024
27-October-2024
Last self-enrolment date
11-August-2024
Census date
31-August-2024
Last withdraw without fail date
13-September-2024
Results released date
03-December-2024
Semester 1
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
03-March-2025
01-June-2025
Last self-enrolment date
16-March-2025
Census date
31-March-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
24-April-2025
Results released date
08-July-2025
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
04-August-2025
02-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-August-2025
Census date
31-August-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
19-September-2025
Results released date
09-December-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Identify, summarize, critique, and communicate the state of-the-art of selected Computer Science and Software Engineering research topics
  • Review Computer Science and Software Engineering articles, identify contributions to the body of knowledge, and discuss areas for further investigations
  • Reflect on the state-of-the-art of Computer Science and Software Engineering and identify appropriate questions to be addressed through research activities

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
Unspecified Learning Activities (Phasing out)
Independent Learning		12.00 12 weeks 144
Face to Face Contact (Phasing out)
Other		2.00 3 weeks 6
TOTAL150

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
PortfolioIndividual 100% 1,2,3 

Hurdle

As the minimum requirements of assessment to pass a unit and meet all ULOs to a minimum standard, an undergraduate student must have achieved:

an aggregate mark for the unit of 50% or more.

Content

  • Defining research and distinguishing research from other scholarly endeavours
  • Techniques for scholarly presentations
  • Reviewing the literature and critically evaluating the state-of-the-art of selected Computer
  • Science and Software Engineering research topics
  • Summarizing and presenting, in oral form, the main issue of the state-or-the-art of a given topic in Computer Science and/or Software Engineering
  • Critiquing, in written form, the topic of a research presentation
  • The authoring process as it applies to journals and conferences

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.