Course overview
Each candidate for the Masters of International Trade and Development (MITD) is required to undertake a research project. The research project must exhibit original investigation, analysis and interpretation. The research project is to be written up as a publishable paper. Candidates develop a research topic. The research topic may focus on emerging issues in international trade, WTO-Plus features of regional trade agreements, the global financial crisis and domestic regulatory reforms.
Course learning outcomes
- Demonstrate specialist knowledge in the area of their research
- Demonstrate the ability to initiate research and to formulate viable research questions
- Demonstrate the capacity to design, conduct and report sustained and original research
- Demonstrate the ability to evaluate and synthesize research-based and scholarly literature
- Present research findings and argument in a suitably structured and sequenced paper of publishable quality that conforms to protocols of academic presentation and research practice
- Demonstrate the ability to critique literature and conduct analyses at Masters level
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