Outline Outline High-achieving graduates of the Bachelor of Arts can enhance their degree with a one-year honours qualification.
An honours degree enables you to:
- deepen your understanding of a specialist topic
- produce an in-depth dissertation or creative work
- enhance your research, analytical and communication skills
- join a community of like-minded, inspiring researchers
- increase your appeal to future employers
- support your eligibility for doctoral level studies.
Specialise in a research area
In your honours year you will deepen your knowledge of your chosen area, with the guidance of an honours supervisor.
After completing an in-depth independent study (with the support of your supervisor) you'll apply the concepts learned to a dissertation or creative project. Your research topic will be related to your undergraduate studies.
How this course will make you industry ready This one-year program adds value to your undergraduate degree by developing your research, analytical and communication skills, preparing you for higher degree by research or industry employment.
What you'll learn
- apply knowledge of abstract ideas to the investigation of a research or creative research outcome
- critically evaluate the effectiveness of research techniques to apply an appropriate analytical mode of investigation
- formulate a research question, apply an appropriate methodology to provide an informed address to that question, and assess the evidence gathered to reach a conclusion
- effectively communicate orally, visually, and in written format an argument based on research and/or creative findings
- access and apply in an accurate manner the appropriate information and communication technology resources for a research project
- work independently to produce a dissertation or a combination of an exegesis and creative project
- generate new understandings and interpretation of issues by drawing on a range of perspectives
- employ new understandings within the field of Humanities to achieve research objectives
- apply research skills both collaboratively and individually in a discipline