Please note - Swinburne University of Technology

Details of business specialisations available for combination
with Korean are as detailed in the Faculty of Business
section on pages 205 to 208.
The subjects offered within the Arts Faculty are as follows:
AK102 Traditional Korea
AK103 Korean 1A
AK104 Korean 10
AK205 Korean 2A
AK206 Korean 20
AK207 Korean Society
AK208 Korean Politics and Economy
AK303 Korean 3C
AK304 Korean 3D
AK305 Reading Korean Newspapers
The elective subject(s) may be taken from either the Faculty
of Arts or Business.
Bachelor of BusinesslBachelor of
Arts (Vietnamese) - double degree
The double degree Bachelor of BusinesslBachelor of Arts
Vietnamese) is of four years (thirty-two units) duration and
is designed to enable students to complete the compulsory
,n requirements for any of the business degree streams
together with the full range of the available Vietnamese
d subjects in order to qualify for the award of two degrees.
2 Details of the business specialisations available for
combination with Vietnamese are as detailed in the Faculty
$ of Business section on pages 205 to 208.
The subjects offered with the Faculty of Arts are as follows:
AV103 Vietnamese 1A
AV104 Vietnamese 18
AV203 Vietnamese 2A I
AV204 Vietnamese 2B
AV303 Vietnamese 3A
AV304 Vietnamese 38
AV306 Reading Vietnamese Newspapers
stage three subjects will not be offered in 1994.
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Bachelor of Arts (Honours)
The Faculty of Arts offers a Bachelor of Arts honours degree
to selected students. This is a fourth year, research oriented
course open to students who have completed the
requirements for a three year Bachelor of Arts degree. The
course will require one year of full-time study or two years
of part-time study. Students will be required to complete
both coursework and thesis requirements in one of four
strands depending on the subjects in which they majored.
Cultural Studies
For students who have majored in literature, media studies,
philosophy and cultural inquiry, or political studies.
Languages
For students who have majored in Italian, Japanese or
Korean.
Psychology
For students who have majored in psychology.
Social Sciences
For students who have majored in media studies, political
studies or sociology.
To be accepted for the honours degree, students must have
completed all subjects necessary for a three year Bachelor of
Arts degree and achieved a high academic standard overall
with an excellent record in their major area of study,
especially at third year level. Students interested in the
honours program should complete an application form
(available from the Arts Faculty Office) and submit it by a
date in November to be advised. Selection will be made by
the Honours Committee.
To achieve a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) students must
complete two seminar subjects (Honours Seminars A and B)
and two thesis subjects (Honours Thesis A and 0). The
former include a range of class requirements and each
strand has its own requirements. For the thesis subjects,
students submit a thesis, which will normally be in the range
of 12,000 to 15,000 words. This will be supervised by a
member of staff in the area of study.
Final results are given for the year as a whole. Students will
be graded as:
First Class Honours (HI) 85%-100%
Second Class Honours Division A (H2A) 75%-84%
Second Class Honours Division B (H2B) 65%-74%
Third Class Honours (H3) 50%-64%
Staff
Honours Year Coordinator
Associate Professor Tanya Castleman
Convenors
Cultural Studies Strand - Dr. Arran Gare
Languages Strand - Dr. Alina Skoutarides
Psychology Strand - Dr. Glen Bates
Social Science Strand - Mr. Kelvin Rowley
Postgraduate course
information
Application for all postgraduate Faculty of Arts courses
should be made on the Postgraduate Application form,
available from the Faculty of Arts Office or the Information
Off ice.
NOW Graduate Diploma in Applied
Psychology
The course is offered as a one year full-time or two years
part-time program. It is designed for students who have
completed a first degree with a three-year major sequence
of studies in Psychology undertaken in a course (or courses)
approved for this purpose by the Australian Psychological
Society. The program is intended to complete students'
foundation studies in psychology as a science and as a
profession. The course is designed to prepare students to
enter the profession by meeting the educational
requirements for Associate Membership of the Australian
Psychological Society.
The course has the following objectives:
(a) to enable students to understand and apply the
principles of social science which underlie the discipline
of psychology;
(b) to enable students to acquire knowledge of the principles
of social and behavioural science research design
and analysis;
(c) to enable students to extend skills in formulating research
problems, gathering and anal~ing data,
interpreting and communicating research findings;
(d) to enable students to acquire advanced knowledge in
selected topic areas within psychology and applied
psychology, building upon and extending basic
undergraduate preparation;
(e) to provide students with an understanding of the nature
of psychology as a profession, the ethical, moral, legal
and social responsibilities of the psychologist, and the
role of the Australian Psychological Society;