Capstone Social Work Project (SWK499)

The Capstone course in the Honours programme requires the course participants to choose a research topic, collect data, analyse the findings and submit a dissertation of 6,000 words, all under the guidance of a dissertation supervisor.

• Topic selection and literature review
• Research Methodology
• Programme evaluation
• Preparing the research proposal
• Data collection
• Data analysis
• Presentation, interpretattion and discussion of results
• Presenting your research project
• Report writing
• Publishing your thesis
• Summative Evaluation

• Develop an overview of the research process.
• Demonstrate an appreciation of the theory of research.
• Apply statistics for data analysis.
• Examine the literature on a topic and formulate a suitable research question.
• Design a rigorous research methodology to examine the proposed research question.
• Use SPSS statistical software or other computer programs to perform data analysis.
• Verify knowledge of presentation skills for research projects.
• Show competency in writing a research thesis.
• Illustrate ability to analyze data and interpret results critically.
• Collect information and data from a range of sources.
• Analyse the quality of research done by other researchers.
• Appraise the state of knowledge in a particular field of knowledge.