Designing Social Science Research is a core course in the GUSS Social Science Honours Program. It assumes that you have at least commenced research for your Honours thesis. This course is designed to assist you in developing a proposal for your social science research project or thesis. In this course, you will refine your topic, develop it into a full research plan and critique relevant literature to support the first part of your thesis.

Your learning in this course will be facilitated through workshops where you will engage with your research community, which includes students and discipline relevant academics and/or professionals, to explore and apply the related content.

This course will run as a six-week intensive in the first half of Semester 1.

If you are enrolled in this course as a component of your Bachelor Honours Program, your overall mark will contribute to the calculation of the weighted average mark (WAM). See the WAM information web page for more information.