Bachelor of Political Science (Honours) 12 months Undergraduate Programme By Australian National University (ANU) |TopUniversities
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Programme Duration

12 monthsProgramme duration

Tuitionfee

50,500 AUDTuition Fee/year

Application Deadline

15 May, 2025Application Deadline

Programme overview

Main Subject

Politics

Degree

Other

Study Level

Undergraduate

Study Mode

On Campus

The Bachelor of Political Science (Honours) degree exemplifies the ANU commitment to research-led education. Building on the Bachelor of Political Science, it gives you high-level preparation for professional life or a higher degree by research through the development of an advanced knowledge of the research principles and methods and theoretical concepts of political science, and through the design and implementation of a research project, typically a 20,000 word thesis, that leads to the development of new understandings or that provides solutions to complex problems.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. pose a significant research question relating to political science;
  2. investigate this question creatively, critically, ethically, and independently, including through sophisticated use of appropriate theory and methodology as appropriate to political science, and place these investigations in the context of the relevant intellectual tradition; and
  3. communicate their research and its findings through an appropriate medium.

Programme overview

Main Subject

Politics

Degree

Other

Study Level

Undergraduate

Study Mode

On Campus

The Bachelor of Political Science (Honours) degree exemplifies the ANU commitment to research-led education. Building on the Bachelor of Political Science, it gives you high-level preparation for professional life or a higher degree by research through the development of an advanced knowledge of the research principles and methods and theoretical concepts of political science, and through the design and implementation of a research project, typically a 20,000 word thesis, that leads to the development of new understandings or that provides solutions to complex problems.

Learning Outcomes:

  1. pose a significant research question relating to political science;
  2. investigate this question creatively, critically, ethically, and independently, including through sophisticated use of appropriate theory and methodology as appropriate to political science, and place these investigations in the context of the relevant intellectual tradition; and
  3. communicate their research and its findings through an appropriate medium.

Admission Requirements

6.5+
64+
80+
176+

AQF Level 7 Bachelor of Political Science from the ANU, or equivalent from another institution, completed within the last two years:

With a weighted average mark equivalent to an ANU 70 per cent calculated from the 36 units (i.e. 0.75 EFTSL), excluding 1000-level courses, with the highest marks, which must include 18 units from the following courses which are compulsory in the Bachelor of Political Science:

  • POLS2044 Contemporary Political Analysis,
  • POLS2119 Ideas in Politics; and
  • One course from the minimum 6 unit "3000 level course" list
  • And with the written approval of an identified supervisor for THES4103 Thesis

15 May 2025
1 Year
Feb

International
50,500 AUD

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