The Research Methods subject exposes students to both qualitative and quantitative research methods. The Themes subject tries to provide a broad overview of the current IS research literature. Reading for the Themes subject consists of articles from the latest IS research journals. Towards the end of the Research Methods subject each student will be asked to prepare a Research Proposal that outlines a research question and a methodology that will be used to try to answer that research question. Much of what people have discovered about the world has been written down, so the fastest way to learn what is known is to read, read, read.
Honours students learn to love reading and to hate reading.
They learn to love reading because they find they can learn so much by reading. They learn to hate reading because they have to read so much. An Honours student will typically spend about 7 hours per week reading for EACH Honours coursework subject in which he or she is enrolled. Reading in one's own research area will be in excess of this. All web content excepting external documents referenced Copyright 1998, The University of Melbourne.