Bachelor of Justice Studies with Honours

If you want to pursue a career in the criminal justice system, honours offers advanced knowledge about crime and justice on both a domestic and international scale, and examines the human rights framework in both a local and global context. You will gain advanced knowledge of the implications of race, disability, gender, youth, and displacement in both the criminal justice and conflict zones settings.

If you are planning a career in the Department of Defence, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Australian Federal Police, AusAid, the United Nations and numerous other Australian and international agencies, honours will allow you to specialise your expertise to aim for the career of your choice.

If you want to pursue an academic pathway, honours provides the opportunity to develop general attitudinal skills relating to social justice, critical awareness, cognitive skills, research methodology, project design and writing skills that will prepare you for a higher research degree.

With public, private and not-for-profit organisations increasingly partnering together to overcome social and environmental justice problems, as a Justice Studies graduate you will be prepared for a diverse choice of career options.

These are some of the top careers projected to grow in the next five years.1

1ABS Labour Force Survey, National Skills Commission trend data to May 2019 and projections to 2024.

• Protective Service Workers (Police, Prison Officers etc.)
  11.2%
  
• Intelligence and Policy Analysts
  12.7%
  
• Social and Welfare Professionals
  24.3%
  

Postgraduate study

If you successfully complete this course, you may be also be eligible to apply for a range of other postgraduate courses including Graduate Certificates and Graduate Diplomas and Masters by coursework and research. Filter the course list by Postgraduate to view the current courses available.

In the Bachelor of Justice Studies with Honours you will complete 100 credit points of comprising:

• 37.5 credit points of Core units
• 12.5 credit points of Core option units
• a 50 credit point research thesis

In your final semester, you will need to enrol in XSB400 which will record your final overall Honours result. This unit is administrative only and does not have classes or assessments.