The Environmental Studies Honours Specialisation gives you high-level preparation for professional life or a higher degree as an environmental social scientist. You will conduct a novel research project on an environmental issue. Honours research allows you to develop advanced knowledge of a topic, and through the thesis you will apply research principles, methods and theoretical concepts relevant to your chosen subfield.
Typically, students write a thesis of up to 20,000 words that develops new understandings, contributing to an interdisciplinary or transdisciplinary subfield of environmental knowledge and interrogate possibilities for change.
Learning Outcomes
- pose a significant research question relating to environmental studies;
- investigate this question creatively, critically, ethically, and independently, including through sophisticated use of theory and methods as appropriate to environmental studies, and place these investigations in the context of the relevant intellectual tradition; and
- communicate their research and its findings through an appropriate medium.
Other Information
Interested students should contact the Honours convenor to discuss your research interests and advice on supervision and coursework options.
Relevant Degrees
Admission Requirements
A major or equivalent in Environmental Studies, Sociology, Geography, Anthropology, Development Studies, Policy Studies or History; and
Written approval of the Environmental Studies Honours convenor with an identified supervisor for the thesis.
Cognate Disciplines
Environmental Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Geography, Development Studies, Policy Studies, History.
Requirements
This Honours specialisation requires the completion of 48 units, which must consist of:
12 units from completion of one of the following course(s):
SOCY4010 - Sociology Honours Methods Seminar (12 units)
POLS4047 - Interpretation, Method, Critique: Interpretivist Methods in the Social Sciences (6 units)
ENVS4001 - Honours Research Skills (6-12 units)
12 units from completion of the following course(s):
SOCY4009 - Sociology Honours Theory Seminar (12 units)
ANTH4011 - History of Anthropological Theory Extended (12 units)
BIAN4010 - Theory Seminar in Biological Anthropology and Archaeology (12 units)
24 units from completion of the following course(s):
THES4103 – Thesis (24 units)
ENVS4000 - Honours Thesis (6-24 units)
Students whose supervisor is in the College of Arts and Social Sciences or any other ANU College enrol in THES4103.
Students whose (principal) supervisor is based in the College of Science enrol in ENVS4000.
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