Did your arts degree prompt a burning question or a passion for independent research? If so, consider applying for an honours year. A 'capstone' to your formal education, honours is an opportunity to drill deeper into a specialised area, to extend your intellectual range, and sharpen your research capabilities. It will enable advanced communication techniques and deep subject knowledge, to hone your analytical abilities, and gain high-level personal and professional skills. These are valuable attributes that provide a solid foundation for postgraduate study, give you a competitive edge in the job market, and help future proof your career in a rapidly changing world.

Why study the Bachelor of Arts with Honours with UNE?

You will extend your intellectual range, learn about research principles and methods, and independently apply advanced knowledge in one or more disciplines. The extra year of honours study at UNE is an opportunity to hone your research, communication and writing skills by producing a dissertation of original ideas that you will integrate and position within the current body of knowledge in your chosen discipline.

You will graduate with the skills to independently research, write about, and discuss critical issues. These skills will be invaluable in your career. They also provide ideal preparation for further studies in any area and will prove essential for lifelong learning.

UNE is Australia's oldest regional university and a pioneer in the delivery of distance education. Year after year, students award UNE the maximum 5-star ratings for Overall Experience and Student Support, so no matter whether you choose to study online or on campus, you are in very good hands.

What makes our course different?

UNE's honours program enables you to pivot your career in a chosen discipline and advance your research skills. You will get to:

• Be supported by our researchers, your teachers — they offer expert guidance with support and supervision of your studies.
• Learn advanced writing skills, and how to coherently and persuasively communicate your ideas and findings to diverse audiences.
• Study flexibly — honours can be studied on campus, or online at home in your own time (with attendance at mandatory intensive schools required for some disciplines, archaeology for example).

To qualify for the award a candidate must pass unit/s to the value of 48 credit points consisting of advanced course work, comprised of several integrated components, and a dissertation component.

2. Each Bachelor of Arts (Honours) candidate will be required to consult with their supervisor(s). The nature and extent of such consultation will be determined by the supervisors and course coordinator after consultation with the candidate prior to commencement of each year of candidature and may require face-to-face consultation.

3. A candidate may not enrol concurrently for other units at this University or at another institution, except that, upon the recommendation of the Head of School, the course coordinator may grant permission to do so.

• Majors

See UNE Handbook for more details. The Handbook contains detailed course information designed for enrolled students, including course plans, exit awards, intensive schools, and work placement requirements.

Depending on majors, examples of possible career paths for graduates include: 

• management and administration 
• heritage and archives 
• policy and public relations 
• diplomacy and foreign affairs 
• translation 
• education 
• editing and publishing 
• archaeology 
• sociology. 

You have completed one of the following UNE qualifications, or an equivalent relevant qualification (AQF Level 7 or overseas equivalent): Bachelor of Arts Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Busin

An IELTS (Academic) overall score of at least 6.0 with no sub-band less than 5.5

Or, equivalent TOEFL score of at least 213 in the computer-based test

Or, at least 79 in the internet-based test with no less than 22 in the written component.

Or, a PTE Academic minimum overall score of 57 with no skill less than 50.