Honours - Area of study Geography and environmental science

Students who commenced study in 2015 should refer to this area of study entry for direction on the requirements; to check which units are currently available for enrolment, refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your area of study.

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Managing faculty	Faculty of Arts
Offered by	South Africa School of Social Science
Campus(es)	South Africa
Coordinator	Mr Charles Villet; Dr Agnes Babugura

Notes

Unit codes that are not linked to their entry in the Handbook are not available for study in the current year.

Description

Honours studies in this area will advance students' knowledge and competencies in the discipline of Geography and environmental science.

Students are required to complete 48 points of study comprising a thesis and two coursework units. The coursework units and the thesis topic are chosen in consultation with the geography and environmental science honours coordinator.

Units

Thesis

Students complete the following two units:

AZA4778 Social science honours dissertation A
AZA4779 Social science honours dissertation B

Coursework units

Students complete the following two units:

AZA4450 Researching for social sciences and humanities
AZA4889 Advanced concepts in geography and environmental science

Intending honours students

Students intending to enter honours in geography and environmental science must have completed a major in that discipline.

Contact details

Visit http://future.arts.monash.edu/contact-arts/

Relevant courses

4087 Honours degree of Bachelor of Social Science