• Offered by Research School of Management
  • ANU College ANU College of Business and Economics
  • Course subject Management, Marketing and International Business
  • Areas of interest Commerce, International Business, Management, Marketing
  • Academic career PGRD
  • Course convener
    • AsPr Sarbari Bordia
    • Dr Birgit Muskat
  • Mode of delivery In Person
  • Offered in First Semester 2021
    Second Semester 2021
    See Future Offerings

Thesis students should speak with the Course Convener about the mode of delivery for their thesis studies.

This course is suitable for Master-level students wishing to write a sub-thesis in the areas of management, marketing or international business. Students in the course discuss their research interests in the areas of management, marketing or international business with a potential supervisor, who assists them in identifying a suitable research topic equivalent to 18 units of coursework. Students complete a sub-thesis on the agreed topic of 15,000 to 20,000 words.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

  1. Students will be able to demonstrate their ability to conduct a basic research project in the form of a sub-thesis.

Other Information

Indicative Assessment

  1. Assessment will be in line with the two other research project courses in the Research School of Management, MMIB8003 Special Research Topic 1 (6 units) and MMIB8004 Special Research Topic 2 (12 units). The sub-thesis will be examined in the Research School of Management. (null) [LO null]

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Workload

Inherent Requirements

Not applicable

Requisite and Incompatibility

You will need to contact the Research School of Management to request a permission code to enrol in this course.

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.  

Commonwealth Support (CSP) Students
If you have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). More information about your student contribution amount for each course at Fees

Student Contribution Band:
34
Unit value:
18 units

If you are a domestic graduate coursework student with a Domestic Tuition Fee (DTF) place or international student you will be required to pay course tuition fees (see below). Course tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.

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Units EFTSL
18.00 0.37500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2021 $10080
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2021 $16740
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links

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Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.

First Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
2447 22 Feb 2021 01 Mar 2021 31 Mar 2021 28 May 2021 In Person View

Second Semester

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
5589 26 Jul 2021 02 Aug 2021 14 Sep 2021 29 Oct 2021 In Person View

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