2766 - Honours degree of Bachelor of Performing Arts

Honours is a prestigious program comprising a fourth year of coursework and performance research after the completion of a Bachelor of Performing Arts. Students choose a topic and undertake research while working with a carefully selected supervisor, who provides individual guidance and academic counselling.

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 School/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.

Upon successful completion of the honours program, students will have extended their undergraduate knowledge in a specific area of the performing arts through in-depth study of dramatic theory contextualised through theatre history, research methodology, and performance analysis. They will have built upon their skills in the areas of research, analysis, writing and performance communication.

Students complete 48 points, including a thesis, as well as additional coursework units chosen from the relevant area of performing arts.

Students should contact the Drama and Theatre Studies honours coordinator in the School of English, Communications and Performance Studies for details of discipline-specific requirements. For information on the units required refer to the 'Areas of study' section in this Handbook at http://www.monash.edu.au/pubs/handbooks/undergrad/arts-ug-study-drama-theatre-studs.html.

The honours degree of Bachelor of Performing Arts

* 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.