A fourth or honours year offers an opportunity for more specialised, advanced work in history and leads to the degree of BA (Hons). The Faculty of Arts requires intending honours students to have achieved credit grades in at least twenty-four points of history at second and third-year levels, of which at least sixteen points must be at the third-year level. The department suggests that students may encounter some difficulty in attempting fourth-year study in history unless they have achieved at least eight points of second or third-year history at distinction level. The completion of a first-year or later-year language, when it is appropriate to the student's studies, is also considered an advantage.
Third-year students contemplating honours should take HSY3060 (Uses of the past) or HSY3080 (Reading history), subjects designed to link reflection on the purposes of history with the application of historical skills in the public domain.
In the honours year students normally take three coursework subjects, at least one of which must be a historiography subject, attend a general seminar, and present a written dissertation of between 12,000 and 15,000 words. Full details are provided in a booklet, `Handbook for third-year students who intend taking fourth-year honours', which is available from the department.
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