Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Science

• Important information
• Course objectives
• Course structure

Important information

Clayton campus

Course code: 0530

Course objectives

On completion of this course students should:

• have acquired a sound technological and scientific knowlege base together with the ability to communicate clearly in oral or written form;
• be able to apply developed skills in research and analysis to science, social science and humanities disciplines;
• have progressed from a broad fundamental knowledge base to focused specialist studies in specific discipline areas in science and the social sciences/humanities;
• have attained at least a reasonable level of computer literacy;
• have the capacity to synthesise and apply knowledge from separate disciplines in problem analysis and in research;
• have an appreciation of the personal and professional value of undertaking a balanced and multi-faceted course of study;
• be aware of ethical standards and responsibilities;
• be equipped with the academic preparation to continue on to postgraduate study.

Course structure

The combined course for the degrees of Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science will normally be four years full-time study or eight years part-time study. An honours degree in either arts or science will require one further year of full-time study. Except with the permission of both faculties, students will be required to complete the combined course within ten years.

Students must study a minimum of three first-year disciplines offered by the Faculty of Science and two first-year disciplines offered by the Faculty of Arts, over the duration of the course; only four will be taken within the first year of study. Within science at least one first-year discipline must be chosen from the laboratory-based disciplines of biology, chemistry, geology, physics and psychology.

A major (three-year) and a minor (two-year) sequence will be taken from the disciplines of each faculty. One of the minors, in either Arts or Science, will normally be continued as a major sequence. Students will thus normally study three major sequences and a minor sequence, over the duration of the course. They may be eligible to graduate with either a BA or a BSc after three years, depending on the subjects studied.

The Faculty of Arts requires arts studies to be chosen from the list contained in schedule A, part I of the Bachelor of Arts regulations. The Faculty of Science requires science studies to be chosen from the list contained in the schedule of approved science subjects.

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