Unit Synopsis
This FAHE Honours unit will provide Honours candidates with the research and knowledge skills appropriate to their disciplines at this level and facilitate their transition into postgraduate study.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 4 |
| Credit Points | 24 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.5 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
Prerequisite: Applicants must have completed a relevant Bachelors degree course within FAHE. Applicants must have completed 144 credit points or equivalent. Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 24-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 50 hours of study per week, making a total of 600 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 100% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
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No previous feedback available
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: Recommendations from the Head of Program based on feedback from staff and students.
In 2015, the Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Program expanded the number of disciplines it houses and now includes Creative Writing, Digital Media, Geography & Environmental Studies, History, Literary & Cultural Studies, Music, Professional Communication and Sociology. From 2016, the structure of Honours will be updated and simplified so as to accommodate the added disciplines. The new code identifier of HONS will make it much easier for students to recognise the honours courses. There will also be a meta-Moodle-website, which will provide more information for students about the program and courses. These changes will significantly improve the administration of the program.
Trial the new changes in 2016.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Construct literature reviews relevant to both the two coursework units and the dissertation progress
- Present two written essays which cogently present the findings of the supervised research for the two reading units
- Present a draft of the dissertation in progress
- Engage in self-management
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | • | • | • |
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | ||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | • | |
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | ||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |