• Level 7
  • 20 Credits
  • 0.1667 EFTS
  • Delivery type:
    Online only
  • Course duration: 16 weeks
  • Course cost:
    $890 NZ Domestic
    $2,104 NZ International
  • Workload - Approximately 13 hours per week
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This online course aims to advance your skills in research and writing or expand your professional workplace experience, providing you with specialist, in-depth knowledge of a subject in which you have a particular interest.

This online course enables you to delve more deeply into your relevant area of study.

You will plan, undertake and write up a small qualitative or quantitative research project. The topics chosen will be directly relevant to your current employment or planned sector of employment.

Before enrolling in this course you need to:

  • Determine what you would like to research.
  • Contact the course leader for their approval of your research topic.

Your project needs to be approved by the course leader before you enrol. You should contact the course leader 4 to 6 weeks before the start of trimester.

 

Students who successfully complete this course will be able to:

  • Identify key issues within an area of library and information service relevant to their workplace or career, and formulate a research or workplace project capable of addressing those issues.
  • Develop, evaluate and report on outcomes of a library and information services project.
  • Evaluate the learning process and prepare a personal reflection including the value of the project in the context of the wider profession.

Assessment

This course is 100% internally assessed.

Textbooks

No textbooks are required for this course.

How to enrol

Before enrolling in this course you need to:

  • choose the qualification you will study the course under
  • check the order that courses in the qualification should be studied in the Qualification Structure table. This is in the Choose courses and apply tab on the qualification page.