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◄Faculty of Business and Economics►

AA027015 RESEARCH PROJECT
10 Credits

Course Pre-requisite(s)/ AA0X7001
Minimum Requirement(s)

Learning Outcomes At the end of the course, students are able to:
(1) Determine a suitable topic for actual problems, objective
and background of research based on actual issues in
organization or industry.
(2) Analyse information from the relevant literature and
design a research framework.
(3) Determine the appropriate methodology in collecting the
required data.
(4) Integrate the information/ data collected.
(5) Prepare written research report

Synopsis of Course The course is designed to train students in conducting
Contents research in public administration and writing a research
paper. Each student is guided by one supervisor from faculty
and can be together from industry experts from the
development of a research project to the completion of the
research report. The stages include identification of issues,
establish problem statement, research questions, research
design, literature review (analysis, synthesis and critic of
empirical research and theory), data collection, data
analysis, analysis of the findings to answer the research
questions, and drawing appropriate conclusions.

Assessment Weightage Continuous Assessment:100%
Final Examination: None

Medium of Instruction English

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