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    Bachelor of Arts with Honours

    University of Otago

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    New Zealand, Dunedin

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    Key Facts

    Program Level

    Bachelor

    Study Type

    Full Time

    Delivery

    On Campus

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    Main Site

    Program Language

    English

    Start & Deadlines

    Next Intake Deadlines15-Jul-2024
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    Duration 4 year(s)
    Tuition Fee
    NZD 34,251  / year
    Next Intake 15-Jul-2024

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours

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    Apply for the Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) through the Dunedin campus in 2023

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    • Overview
    • Subject Information
    • Programme Requirements
    • Regulations for the Degree of Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons))

    Overview

    The Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) degree is an academically demanding programme. 

    The aim of the Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) is to help students become highly skilled, versatile, independent thinkers with the research experience, information literacy, communication and interpersonal skills necessary for an advanced professional career or further academic study at the Master's or PhD level.

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    Subject Information

    The degree may be awarded in any one of the subjects, or in any approved combination of the subjects, listed below:

    • Anthropology
    • Biblical Studies
    • Chinese
    • Christian Thought and History
    • Classics
    • Communication Studies
    • Computer Science
    • Economics
    • Education
    • English
    • Film and Media Studies
    • French
    • Gender Studies
    • Geography
    • German
    • History
    • Indigenous Studies
    • Information Science
    • Japanese
    • Linguistics
    • Māori Studies
    • Mathematics
    • Music
    • Pacific Islands Studies (no new enrolments)
    • Philosophy
    • Philosophy, Politics and Economics
    • Psychology
    • Religious Studies
    • Sociology
    • Spanish
    • Statistics
    • Theatre Studies

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    Programme requirements

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Anthropology

    Papers
    • ANTH 490  Dissertation, or ANTH 495 Dissertation, or ANAT 490 Dissertation

    • Three further 400-level ANTH papers

      BIOA 401 Advanced Biological Anthropology may be substituted for one 400-level ANTH paper

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Biblical Studies

    Papers
    • BIBS 490  Dissertation

    • Three further 400-level BIBS papers

      One 400-level CHTH, MINS, PAST or RELS paper may be substituted for one 400-level BIBS paper.

      Prerequisites: 36 points of either Greek or Hebrew language (or other combinations of papers comprising one year of Greek or Hebrew language study)

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours BA(Hons) in Chinese

    Papers
    • CHIN 441  Advanced Topics in Chinese

    • CHIN 451  Studies in Chinese

    • CHIN 452  Studies in Chinese 2

    • CHIN 490  Dissertation

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) majoring in Christian Thought and History

    Papers
    • CHTH 490

    • Three further 400-level CHTH papers

      One 400-level BIBS, MINS, PAST or RELS paper may be substituted for one 400-level CHTH paper.

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Classics (including Classical Studies, Greek and Latin)

    Papers
    • CLAS 490  Dissertation

    • Three further 400-level CLAS, or GREK or LATN papers 

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) majoring in Communication Studies

    Papers
    • MFCO 490  Dissertation

    • MFCO 401  Advanced Media, Film and Communication Theory

    • Two further 400-level MFCO papers or other approved papers

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Computer Science

    Papers
    • COSC 490  Dissertation

    • Four of COSC 402, COSC 410, COSC 411, COSC 412, COSC 420, COSC 421, COSC 422, COSC 430, COSC 431, COSC 440, COSC 441, COSC 450, COSC 470, COSC 471

      Prerequisites:
      At least five 300-level papers including COSC 326 or COSC 345 and including at least three further papers from COSC 301-385

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Economics

    Papers
    • ECON 480  Dissertation

    • Four of the following, including at least one of ECON 410 and 411, and at least one of ECON 412 and 413:
      • ECON 402  Growth, Institutions and Development
      • ECON 403  Monetary Economics
      • ECON 404  International Economics
      • ECON 405  The Economics of Natural Resources and Public Choice
      • ECON 406  Labour and Population Economics
      • ECON 407  Special Topics in Advanced Economics
      • ECON 410  Advanced Microeconomic Theory
      • ECON 411  Advanced Macroeconomic Theory
      • ECON 412  Macroeconomics
      • ECON 413  Microeconomics

      Prerequisites:
      ECON 375  Econometrics
      ECON 377  Mathematical Economics
      two further 300-level ECON paper
      one further 300-level paper

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Education

    Papers
    • EDUC 480   Research Essay

    • Either EDUC 411  Conceptualising and Designing Quality Educational Research or EDUC 412  Research Design and Methodology: Evidence-based Practice in Education

    • Three further 400-level EDUC papers

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in English

    Papers
    • ENGL 490  Dissertation

    • Three further 400-level ENGL papers

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Film and Media Studies

    Papers
    • MFCO 490  Dissertation

    • MFCO 401  Advanced Media, Film and Communication Theory

    • Two further 400-level MFCO papers, or other approved papers

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in French

    Papers
    • FREN 441  Advanced Topics in French

    • FREN 451  Studies in French

    • FREN 452  Studies in French 2

    • FREN 490  Dissertation

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Gender Studies

    Papers
    • GEND 401  Debates in Gender and Sexuality

    • GEND 490  Dissertation

    • Two of ANTH 423, ANTH 424, ANTH 425, EDUC 427, GEND 402, MFCO 408, or any 400-level SOCI paper or other approved papers

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Geography

    Papers
    • GEOG 490  Dissertation

    • Three further 400-level GEOG or DEVS papers

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in German

    Papers
    • GERM 441  Advanced Topics in German

    • GERM 451  Studies in German

    • GERM 452  Studies in German 2

    • GERM 490  Dissertation

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in History

    Papers
    • HIST 490  Dissertation

    • HIST 452  Rethinking History

    • Two further 400-level HIST papers

    • One other relevant 400-level paper (which may include MAOR 407 Presenting Pacific Histories) may be substituted for one 400-level HIST paper, with approval from the Head of Programme, History.

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Indigenous Studies

    Papers
    • INDS 401  Indigenous Identities or INDS 402  Taonga and Identity

    • MAOR 414  He Pūkōrero - Theory and Research Methodologies

    • MAOR 490  He Raukura

    • One of INDS 401, INDS 402, INDS 410

    • One of ANTH 416, MAOR 401, MAOR 404, MAOR 407, MAOR 410, MAOR 417, MAOR 431, PACI 401, PACI 402, PACI 405, PACI 410, POLS 402

    Note: 400-level papers selected should be consistent with interdisciplinary choices at 300-level. Approved papers may be drawn from those offered by other Divisions.

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Information Science

    Papers

    • INFO 490 Dissertation
    • Four 400-level INFO papers
    • Prerequisites for 2018:
      INFO 312  Information Systems Development Project
      Two of:
      INFO 321  Enterprise Data Management
      INFO 322  Information Systems Strategy and Governance
      INFO 323  Distributed Information Systems
      INFO 324  Adaptive Business Intelligence
      Two further papers from:
      300-level INFO papers
      SENG 301 Software Project Management

      Prerequisites from 2019:
      INFO 301 Applied Project, INFO 302 Information Systems Strategy and Governance, and three further 300-level INFO papers
      .

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Japanese

    Papers
    • JAPA 441  Advanced Topics in Japanese

    • JAPA 451  Studies in Japanese

    • JAPA 452  Studies in Japanese 2

    • JAPA 490  Dissertation

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Linguistics

    Papers
    • LING 490  Dissertation

    • Three further 400-level LING papers

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Māori Studies

    Papers
    • MAOR 414  He Pūkōrero - Theory and Research Methodologies

    • MAOR 490  He Raukura

    • Two further 400-level INDS, MAOR or PACI papers including at least one of:
      • MAOR 401  He Whakarākai (Whakatīeke)
      • MAOR 427  He Tuhituhinga
      • MAOR 431  Te Kōhure

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Mathematics

    Papers
    • MATH 490  Dissertation

    • Four 400-level MATH or STAT papers including at least three MATH papers

      Prerequisites: At least five 300-level papers including at least four 300-level MATH papers

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Music

    Papers

    MUSI 490   Dissertation

    80 further points from:

    • MUSI 401 Materials of Music 4
    • MUSI 407  Seminal Works
    • MUSI 442  Repertoire Studies
    • MUSI 471 Research Methods and Approaches (Advanced)
    • MUSI 486 Community Project (Advanced)

    Prerequisites:
    One of MUSI 223, MUSI 268, MUSI 269, MUSI 301, MUSI 323, MUSI 368, MUSI 371, MUSI 386, MUSI 369

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Philosophy

    Papers
    • PHIL 490  Dissertation

    • Three further papers from 400-level PHIL papers or CLAS 440  Advanced Studies in Socrates and Plato

      Prerequisites: One of PHIL 105  Critical Thinking, or PHIL 222  Introduction to Formal Logic, or equivalent

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Philosophy, Politics and Economics

    Papers
    • One of:
      • ECON 492  Dissertation for Philosophy, Politics and Economics
      • PHIL 490  Dissertation
      • POLS 490  Dissertation
    • Three further 400-level ECON, PHIL, POLS papers

    • No more than 100 points may be from any one of the component disciplines. CLAS 440 may be substituted for one 400-level PHIL paper.

    Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Psychology

    Papers
    • PSYC 490  Dissertation

    • Six of PSYC 401-440

    Or, for students granted provisional admission to PGDipClPs

    • PSYC 480  Dissertation

    • Eight of PSYC 401-440

    Requirements

    Entry Requirements

    Jordan entrance requirements

    One year of successful study at a recognised institution of university standing, or successful completion of a University of Otago Foundation Year programme or equivalent.

    A recognised institution is generally a college or university that is listed in the World Higher Education Database.

    We also accept the following international qualifications:

    • International Baccalaureate: IB Diploma with a minimum of 24 points.
    • Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) GCE Advanced Levels: minimum Numerical Score of 8.
      • The numerical scores are normally calculated on the best three A-Level principal subjects (excluding the General Paper) taken at one sitting, or two A-Level passes with two A-Level Subsidiary passes at one sitting.
      • (i) Scores for the Advanced levels are calculated on the basis that: A = 5, B = 4, C = 3, D = 2, E = 1
      • (ii) Scores for the Advanced Subsidiary level results are calculated on the basis that: A = 2.5, B = 2, C = 1.5, D = 1, E = 0.5
    • Northern Consortium United Kingdom (NCUK) International Foundation Year (IFY)
      • A minimum of CCC across the NCUK IFY,
      • Acceptance of the NCUK English for Academic Purposes qualification as an alternative to meeting the English-language requirements, with a minimum of a C grade overall and no less than D grade in each component.
    • Satisfactory completion of one year's study at a recognised tertiary institution. A recognised institution is generally a college or university that is listed in the World Higher Education Database.

    English Program Requirements

    If your first language is not English you need to show you meet our English language requirements

    Fee Information

    Tuition Fee

    NZD 34,251  / year

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    • Step 5 – Accept your Offer of Place
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