0003 - Honours degree of Bachelor of Arts
This course entry should be read in conjunction with information provided in the Faculty information section of this Handbook by the managing faculty for this course
| Abbreviated title | BA(Hons) |
|---|---|
| CRICOS Code | 041536F |
| Managing faculty | Arts |
| Study location and mode | Off-campus (Gippsland) On-campus (Gippsland, Caulfield, Clayton, South Africa) Multi-modal (Gippsland) |
| Total credit points required | 48 |
| Duration (years) | 1 year FT, 2 years PT |
| Contact details | http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/current/coursework/honours/ or email (Berwick, Caulfield, Clayton) coursework@arts.monash.edu.au; (Gippsland) humcass.info@arts.monash.edu.au; (Monash South Africa) inquiries@monash.ac.za. |
Description
Entry requirements
Students must have:
- completed a degree, with a major (48 points or the equivalent) in the intended honours dicipline
- obtained at least a distinction average (70 per cent) in the honours discipline(s) to the value of 24 points at second and third year level, of which at least 18 points must be at third year level.
Please refer to the various schools/disciplines for any special requirements.
Students qualified to enter an honours program must normally do so within five years of the date on which they completed their undergraduate studies.
Objectives
Structure
Students complete 48 points of study, including a thesis.
Areas of study
Berwick
- Communication
Caulfield
- Behavioural studies
- Communication
- Criminology
- Psychology (as an arts discipline)
Clayton
- Anthropology
- Archaeology and ancient history;
- Asian studies
- Australian Indigenous studies
- Chinese
- Classical studies
- Communication
- Comparative literature and cultural studies
- Comparative cultures
- Drama and theatre studies
- English
- European studies
- Film and television studies
- French studies
- Geography
- German studies
- History
- Indonesian studies
- International studies
- Italian studies
- Japanese studies
- Jewish civilisation
- Korean studies
- Linguistics
- Music
- Philosophy
- Politics
- Professional honours in social research
- Psychology (as an arts discipline)
- Religion and theology
- Sociology
- Spanish and Latin American studies
- Ukrainian studies
- Visual culture
- Women's studies
Gippsland
- Australian Indigenous studies
- Cognitive science
- Communications
- History
- Journalism
- Politics
- Psychological studies
- Sociology
- Writing
Monash South Africa
- Communication and media Studies
- Geography and environmental science
- International studies
Requirements
Honours studies may be taken as single honours (a single discipline over one year of full-time study), double honours (two disciplines over two years of full-time study) or combined honours (two disciplines over one year of full-time study).
Contact the honours coordinator from the relevant school for discipline-specific requirements.
Combined honours
Combined honours may be undertaken, provided that all honours requirements have been met in both disciplines. Application to undertake combined honours must be made with the support of the school honours coordinators of both disciplines. Combined honours normally take the form of a joint dissertation (50 per cent in each discipline) alongside coursework chosen from the two component disciplines.
Award(s) received on completion *
* Where more than one award is listed, or in the case of double degrees, where more than one award is listed for one or both components of the double degree, the actual award/s conferred may depend on units/majors/streams/specialisations studied, the level of academic merit achieved (eg in the case of 'with honours' programs), or other factors relevant to the individual student's program of study.