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Additional selection requirements

Applicants must satisfy the requirements of the college(s) in which honours are to be undertaken to ensure that the standard of academic achievement necessary to proceed to an honours degree has been attained.

Minimum English language proficiency requirements

Applicants of non-English speaking backgrounds must meet the English language proficiency requirements of Band 1 – Schedule II of the ʯÁñÊÓƵ Admissions Policy.

Course learning outcomes

On successful completion of the Bachelor of Arts with Honours, graduates will be able to:

• Demonstrate coherent and advanced knowledge of social theory, practice and professional ethics in at least one discipline in the Arts or Journalism or Social Sciences

• Demonstrate knowledge of research principles and methods in at least one discipline in the Arts or Journalism or Social Sciences

• Analyse critically and evaluate place and role of Australia and Singapore in the Asia-Pacific region and the tropics worldwide

• Review, analyse, consolidate and synthesise perspectives, arguments and sources of qualitative and/or quantitative data pertinent to complex social, political, historical, economic, environmental and/or cultural issues, particularly those related to quality of life in the tropics worldwide

• Present a clear and coherent exposition of research to a variety of audiences through advanced proficiency in written and spoken English language and, where appropriate, numeracy skills

• Design, plan and execute a research project with some independence

• Demonstrate advanced understanding of the relationship between theory and practice in some areas in at least one discipline in the Arts or Journalism or Social Sciences

• Respectfully and responsibly apply knowledge of diversity and difference among people, especially vulnerable and Indigenous peoples, in research and scholarship.

Credit points in major

12 credit points

Credit points in major

24 credit points

Environmental Studies

ʯÁñÊÓƵ Cairns

ʯÁñÊÓƵ Townsville

Not available in Joint Honours

Credit points in major

6 credit points

ʯÁñÊÓƵ Cairns

Not all majors are available in Cairns - see TABLE A (Single Arts and Social Sciences Majors), TABLE B (Single Earth and Environmental Sciences Majors), and TABLE C (Joint Arts and Social Sciences Majors) for availability of majors at each campus

External

Not all majors are available in external mode - see TABLE A (Single Arts and Social Sciences Majors), TABLE B (Single Earth and Environmental Sciences Majors), and TABLE C (Joint Arts and Social Sciences Majors) for availability of majors at each campus

Maximum time to complete

3 years