FZA4441 Honours thesis part 1
Faculty of Information Technology
FZA4441 Honours thesis part 1 is a level 4, 6-credit-point, undergraduate unit from the Faculty of Information Technology. It isn't offered in 2020. It has no prerequisites.
- Credit points
- 6
- Offered in 2020
- Not offered
- Workload
- 12 hours
- per semester
The 2027 handbook has no page for FZA4441. This is its 2020 entry, the latest one.
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Requisites
Before FZA4441
Prohibitions
You can't enrol if you have passed any of these.
After FZA4441
No unit lists FZA4441 as a prerequisite in the 2020 handbook.
Enrolment rules
Corequisites:
- For students enrolled in C3001: None
- For all other students: FIT4005
Prerequisite: Admission to an FIT Honours program.
Students in C3001 must have competed 144 credit points towards their degree including FIT2083.
Equivalent units
The same content under another code. Only one of them counts.
Overview
This unit is a research unit and a requirement for the FIT Honours degrees. Due to the nature of IT, a wide range of Honours project types can be offered to students. Some project components are of a practical nature and may involve some software development and/or experimentation, while other components are of a more theoretical nature.
This unit forms part of the sequence of units comprising the Honours thesis in the Faculty of Information Technology.
Two exit points exist for the Honours thesis, FIT4444 (24cpts) and FIT4448 (18 cpts).
The 24 credit point exit point is applicable to:
- Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours)
- Bachelor of Computer Science Advanced (Honours)
- Bachelor of Computer and Information Sciences (Honours)
The 18 credit point exit point is applicable to:
Honours stream in the Bachelor of Software Engineering.
Offerings in 2020
The 2020 handbook lists no offerings for FZA4441.
Learning outcomes
When you finish this unit, you should be able to:
- 1
Design a rigorous Bachelor Honours level research project and develop project proposal;
- 2
Critically review research literature, research design and reported findings;
- 3
Evaluate and select research methods and techniques of data collection and analysis appropriate to particular research designs, projects and disciplines;
- 4
Conduct ethical research;
- 5
Communicate research findings in written and oral form in research and industry settings.
Workload and teaching
Minimum total expected workload equals 12 hours per week. Students will be expected to hold regular meetings with supervisor(s) over the course of the semester.
Contacts
- Chief Examiners
- Professor Patrick Olivier
Common questions
What are the prerequisites for FZA4441?
FZA4441 has no prerequisites, but enrolment rules apply.
When is FZA4441 offered?
FZA4441 has no offerings listed in the 2020 handbook.
How much work is FZA4441?
The handbook expects about 12 hours of study across the semester. No students have rated its difficulty yet.
More details
- Credit points
- 6
- Level
- 4
- Study level
- Undergraduate
- Faculty
- Faculty of Information Technology
- Type
- Coursework
- EFTSL
- 0.125
- Student contribution
- SCA Band 2
- Study abroad
- Not available
- Handbook years
- 2020