Handbook

 The BCA Honours year is for students who’ve done well throughout their Bachelor of Creative Arts degree. If you have a Distinction average or higher, the Honours program offers an additional year of study to pursue a major creative project while engaging with the relevant critical ideas and scholarship in your chosen field of research. For the creative work, you will develop a significant and sustained body of work in consultation with your supervisor; while for the critical component, you will write a dissertation or exegesis as well as participate in regular research seminars. In both instances, the Honours year will grant you the opportunity to pursue a topic or idea you are really interested in with a supervisor who’s there to encourage and support you. Potential employers appreciate the Honours degree because it demonstrates that students can: achieve complex goals, meet deadlines, investigate independently, use resources effectively, and write clearly. The Honours year has two functions at UOW: it offers students the chance to pursue in-depth critical and creative projects at the end of undergraduate study, and it acts as a bridge between undergraduate study and advanced research. Studying Honours is about: pursuing a creative project in a field you are passionate about; learning research skills, navigation skills and information systems (archives, the library, databases, electronic research networks); the opportunity to practise articulating complex ideas orally and in writing. It provides the experience of working closely with a supervisor on a creative project while keeping to firm deadlines.