Information about the Bachelor of Arts with Honours
(BA(Hons))
Please note: This page refers to the 2012 academic year unless otherwise specified.
Admission to a BA(Hons) at Victoria normally requires a Bachelor's degree in the same discipline and satisfactory completion of or exemption from the subject prerequisites as stated in the BA(Hons) Statute.
All Honours degrees taught in the Faculty consist of four 30-point 400-level courses (or the equivalent). Honours degrees which include courses taught by other Faculties - such as in Economics, Mathematics and Public Policy - require more courses but have the equivalent workload, totalling 120 points. Most Honours programmes in the Faculty require a 30-point Research Essay (XXXX 489).
A candidate for this degree shall normally be enrolled for at least two trimesters and shall complete the requirements of the degree within four years of first enrolling for it.
The Faculty offers the BA(Hons) in more than 30 disciplines, for example:
- Latin
- Linguistics
- Logic
- Logic and Computation
- Māori Studies
- Mathematics
- Media Studies
- Music (currently not offered)*
- Pacific Studies
- Philosophy
- Political Science
- Psychology
- Public Policy
- Religious Studies
- Social Policy (currently not offered)
- Sociology
- Spanish
- Theatre
* A Bachelor of Music with Honours (BMus(Hons)) programme is offered by the NZSM.