BA(Hons)(Curtin)
Course CRICOS Code: 055610G
Registered full-time Duration for International Onshore Students on student visas:
1 Year
This course educates students in conceptual and theoretical aspects of academic practice, provides them with research methodologies appropriate to their honours project and the practical experience of applying concepts to investigation through the production of a dissertation or creative project and exegesis.
Applications for recognition of prior learning are assessed on an individual basis.
Honours is normally completed in one year of full-time study or its part-time equivalent.
In the first half of the course, students undertake a unit in concepts and theories (50 credits), a unit in methodologies appropriate to their research topic (25 credits) and a unit of supervised thesis preparation (25 credits), and for the second half of the course, the production of a dissertation or creative project and exegesis (100 credits).
An honours degree is a prerequisite for research and other higher degrees. An honours degree may also attract higher status and rates of pay in employment.
Students may be expected to purchase a number of textbooks, readers and other essential study materials.
Curtin University reserves the right to alter the internal composition of any course to ensure learning outcomes retain maximum relevance. Any changes to the internal composition of a course will protect the right of students to complete the course within the normal timeframe and will not result in additional cost to students through a requirement to undertake additional units.
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309471 | v.2 | Librarianship and Corporate Information Management Honours Major | 200.0 | ||
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309473 | v.2 | Internet Studies Honours Major | 200.0 | ||
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309474 | v.2 | Journalism Honours Major | 200.0 | ||
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309476 | v.2 | Mass Communication Honours Major | 200.0 | ||
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309477 | v.2 | Media Studies Honours Major | 200.0 | ||
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309478 | v.2 | Screen Arts Honours Major | 200.0 | ||
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309481 | v.2 | Creative Writing Honours Major | 200.0 | ||
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309485 | v.2 | Performance Studies Honours Major | 200.0 | ||
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309482 | v.3 | Literary and Cultural Studies Honours Major | 200.0 | ||
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309486 | v.3 | Professional Writing and Publishing Honours Major | 200.0 | ||
200.0 |