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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
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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)
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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)
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
Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Education
Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in English
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
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
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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
Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Māori Studies
Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) in Mathematics
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 |