Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

The Bachelor of Arts honours year is both a preparation for postgraduate study and a capstone to an undergraduate degree.

Honours can be the culmination of your formal education, an experience that extends your intellectual range, hones your research abilities, as well as analytical and communication techniques, and helps you to develop the personal and professional skills needed to see a research project though to completion.Honours can also be the first step on a path to a career as an academic or professional researcher.

The honours year comprises seminar classes and work toward a short thesis on an independent research project under the supervision of an academic staff member who is an expert in the field of your research.The following Honours subject areas are not available for mid-year entry:

Ancient History, History.Subject areas

• American Studies (Honours subject area)
• Ancient History (Honours subject area)
• Anthropology (Honours subject area)
• Applied Mathematics (Honours subject area)
• Arabic Language and Cultures (Honours subject area)
• Archaeology (Honours subject area)
• Art History (Honours subject area)
• Asian Studies (Honours subject area)
• Biblical Studies and Classical Hebrew (Honours subject area)
• Biochemistry (Honours subject area)
• Biology (Honours subject area)
• Celtic Studies (Honours subject area)
• Chemistry (Honours subject area)
• Chinese Studies (Honours subject area)
• Classics (Honours subject area)
• Cultural Studies (Honours subject area)
• Digital Cultures (Honours subject area)
• Economics (Honours subject area)
• English (Honours subject area)
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Admission requirement

To qualify for admission to honours students need to have completed a major in the intended subject area with an average of 70% or above. Some departments and programs have additional criteria, including advanced senior units of study designed to prepare students for the challenges of fourth year study.

The academic requirements that are displayed are applicable to currently available courses only, and are updated annually in October and may be changed without notice. The Handbooks Online and the University of Sydney Calendar are the official legal source of information relating to study at the University of Sydney, and you are referred to those documents.