Honours Program

Film Studies offers a research-based year of study through its Honours program. This is available to students who will continue on directly from qualifying for their undergraduate degree or to those who have already graduated and wish to return to their studies after a break.

Prequisites for Honours

The prerequisite for Film Studies honours is a credit average in 48 senior credit points of Film Studies. If you do not meet this requirement, you should discuss your situation with the Honours Coordinator.

Honours

The Honours program in Art History and Theory consists of:
1. a thesis written under the supervision of one or more members of academic staff,
2. a seminar (either Art is the Issue or Film is the Issue) that meets weekly for two hours for one semester
3. a workshop (Vision and Frame: Thinking through Art History and Film Studies) that meets during one semester.

Assessment

The thesis should be of 18000-20000 words in length.
Each seminar and the workshop require 6000-8000 words of written work or its equivalent.
The thesis is worth 60% of the final Honours mark and each of the seminars and workshop is worth 20%.

Classes

1x2-hr seminar/week, 4x workshops/semester

Supervision

Each student is supervised by a member of staff with expertise in the particular discipline area.
Staff research areas can be found on the staff page.

Scholarships

Each year the University of Sydney offers around 50 Honours Scholarships, each worth $6000. Further information about these scholarships is available on the Scholarships Office website.

Application

Prospective Honours students should make preliminary enquiries with the Department. This is not a formal enrolment and does not commit you to Honours should you change your mind; it is simply helpful for the Department to gain some sense of student numbers, and for students as a way of beginning to think about supervisors and thesis topics.

Students must then apply to enrol in Honours through the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Courses Online.

Enrolment

The Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences requires all students to enrol initially in Honours as full time.
The program does not offer mid-year entry.