Coordinator: Dr P K Roy, telephone (051) 226 325 or (051) 226 339
Inquiries: Ms G Davy, telephone (051) 226 575
Entry requirements
Applicants must have completed all requirements at pass degree level, with a credit average or better at the second and third levels of the major sequence(s) in which they wish to take honours.
Students qualified to enter an honours program must normally do so within five years of the date on which they complete their undergraduate studies.
Students who have completed their degree at a higher education institution other than Monash Gippsland must provide a certified copy of their academic transcript and supporting documentation regarding content of their course. This is to be judged by an Honours Committee as being acceptable for entry.
Mid-year entry into honours is offered by some disciplines within the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, subject to the approval of the Honours Committee.
It is proposed that honours will be offered by the distance education mode from 1996.
Course structure
The honours degree requires a fourth year of study following completion of the normal requirements of the pass degree.
Honours studies at Monash University Gippsland campus may be taken as a single discipline or combined honours. The course is to be completed in a minimum period of one year full-time or two years part-time equivalent. The following disciplines are available at honours level: English, history, mass communications, politics and sociology.
Students studying full-time or part-time in either mode (on-campus or distance education) are expected to complete the forty-eight points of the single or combined honours course in any chosen discipline.
The honours program comprises two components: coursework and the dissertation. The coursework comprises two subjects: one examining the major theoretical and methodological issues related to a particular discipline and the other focusing on issues and applications. These subjects will require students to present seminar papers and a major essay. Each of these subjects is of twelve points value. The dissertation component is a full-year subject of twenty-four points value and requires a minor dissertation of not more than 15,000 words on an approved topic of the students' own choice. Students will prepare their dissertation under the direction of a supervisor.
Combined honours may be taken from two disciplines within the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, provided that all honours requirements have been met in both disciplines and subject to the approval of the Honours Committee. Students undertaking combined honours will complete one coursework subject from each discipline and a single or joint discipline dissertation.