The Honours year provides the opportunity for you to extend your undergraduate degree work and attain a higher qualification. It will develop further your capacity for informed, conceptual thinking and your research skills. Providing the first stage towards a higher degree (Masters or Doctorate) by research, Honours will give greater depth to your undergraduate studies. You will gain greater understanding of the main theories relevant to your discipline of study. You will also develop research skills and learn to analyse and write at a more abstract and theoretical level.

Graduates will: have an advantage in employment over a graduate with an undergraduate degree meet the standard prerequisite for entry to the Master by Research or PhD both here and in universities across the world provide employers with evidence of capacity to undertake research therefore expanding career options complete a research product which may be published