If you are doing, or have done particularly well in your Bachelor of Communication and Media Studies degree, you should consider an Honours year. Your Bachelor of Communication and Media Studies degree would have introduced you to a wide range of topics and problems: an Honours project will enable you to explore one in much greater depth. Honours research topics are various and negotiable if you are really interested in a topic and want to find answers, you'll be encouraged and supported. From a potential employer's perspective, whatever your topic, being able to demonstrate your ability to achieve a complex goal, meet deadlines, investigate independently, use resources effectively and write coherently will be highly regarded. The Honours year has two functions at UOW: as an in-depth project at the end of undergraduate study, and as a bridge between undergraduate study and advanced research. Studying Honours teaches you: training in research skills and in information systems (archives, the Library, databases, electronic research networks); opportunity to practise articulating complex ideas orally and in writing, experience in working closely with a supervisor on a project and in preparing a major project to meet a deadline; experience in devising, researching and writing up an individual topic of study in an extended argument/thesis which is approximately 20,000 words.

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