Information about the Bachelor of Arts with Honours

School of Arts Honours Program
The Program
How to Apply to Honours
Discipline Honours Convenors

School of Arts Honours Program

The School of Arts encourages and welcomes applications from motivated, well-qualified graduates to our Honours programs.

For more information about doing Honours in 2011, read this Honours Information Sheet.

Honours study offers students the opportunity to spend additional time pursuing research in their area of interest at a deeper level than is allowed by an undergraduate degree.

Honours is a pathway for students who wish to undertake a Postgraduate research degree such as MPhil or PhD.

For students not seeking to undertake an advanced degree Honours can hone superior research, analytical, writing, and communication skills that are transferable to other endeavours. A degree in Honours is well respected in the job market.

The Honours program is offered both internally and externally and either full-time, over one year, or part-time, over two years. The program in each discipline involves a combination of coursework units and a dissertation.

Bachelor of Arts with Honours

The Bachelor of Arts with Honours degree can be taken in all disciplines in the School of Arts: Chinese, Communication and Media Studies, English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Music, and Theatre Studies. The extensive expertise of staff in the school allows for a broad range of dissertation topics.

Bachelor of Music with Honours, Bachelor of Media and Communication Studies with Honours

As well as BA Honours degrees in disciplinary subjects, the School also offers Bachelor of Music with Honours, and Bachelor of Media and Communications with Honours.

Click on the link to each degree for course rules and information about eligibility.

The Program

Honours degrees are made up of two units of study:

Coursework Unit (24 Credit Points), comprised of integrated topics in such areas as disciplinary methodology, and focused texts
Dissertation Unit (24 Credit Points), in which students write a dissertation of 14,000 to 16,000 words on a topic devised in consultation with a supervisor.

How to Apply to Honours

First, contact the Honours Convenor in your discipline, to discuss the program of study offered, potential dissertation topics and supervisors. You can also contact the School of Arts Honours Convenor, Dr Alan Davison to discuss your eligibility for the program.

Once you have established your topic and eligibility, you may apply formally through the Student Centre:
http://www.une.edu.au/for/current-students/course-information/bach-hons-info.php

Enrolment enquiries and all matters of degree administration should be directed to the Student Centre in the first instance.