Development Studies Honours Specialisation

Total units 48 Units

Specialisation code DEST-HSPC

Academic career Undergraduate

The Development Studies Honours Specialisation gives you high-level preparation for professional life or a higher degree by research through the development of an advanced knowledge of the research principles and methods and theoretical concepts of development studies, and through the design and implementation of a research project, typically a thesis of up to 20,000 words, that develops new understandings or that provides solutions to complex problems.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

pose a significant research question relating to development studies;
investigate this question creatively, critically, ethically, and independently, including through sophisticated use of theory and methodology as appropriate to development studies, and place these investigations in the context of the relevant intellectual tradition; and
communicate their research and its findings through an appropriate medium.

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Admission Requirements

a major or equivalent in Development Studies
with the written approval of an identified supervisor for the thesis

Requirements

This Honours specialisation requires the completion of 48 units, which must consist of:

A minimum of 12 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
ANTH4011	History of Anthropological Theory Extended	12
ANTH4012	Theory and Ethnography in the Analysis of Cultures	12
POLS4011	Research Training: Scope and Methods	12
SOCY4009	Sociology Honours Theory Seminar	12
SOCY4010	Sociology Honours Methods Seminar	12

A maximum of 12 units may come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
POLS4009	Special Topics in Politics and International Relations 1	6
POLS4010	Special Topics in Politics and International Relations 2	6

24 units from completion of the following course(s):

Code	Title	Units
THES4103	Thesis	6-24

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