Honours

This School welcomes and enthusiastically encourages students to enrol for our Honours program. Our own students, and other students with an appropriate background from UWA or other recognised institutions who qualify under this University's regulations, are welcome to apply.

General information for prospective honours students is available at the Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences website.

The School's Honours format is followed by BMedSc and Higher Degree by Research (Preliminary) students who are also warmly welcomed to the School.

In this Honours year, much of the learning emphasis is on completing an original research project under the supervision of School Staff who are internationally recognised in thier specific fields/s of research. This is in contrast to your current/previous study experience where you received comprehensive instruction in many aspects of concepts in the disciplines of Anatomy and Human Biology. During your year with us you will receive many benefits including being:

• introduced into the challenging world of full-time research.
• guided to investigate a biological problem at a professional level.
• introduced to the vast information related to your topic stored in scientific journals, the Internet, and in the minds of your colleagues.
• exposed to challenges, frustration, routine and inspirational times of research.
• stimulated by contributing to the knowledge/technical background of the problem area you have selected.
• able to appreciate the value and cooperation of working with academic and technical colleagues.
• developing the technical, writing and verbal skills required for successful research.
• maturing as a person by close contact with the like-minded peer group and professional university staff.
• testing your abilities and resolve about your future directions.

Eligibility

The minimum qualification for entry to Honours programmes in the Faculty of Life and Physical Sciences is an average of at least 65% in third year over 24 points of your major relevant to the honours discipline you wish to study. Students who meet this requirement and have the support of the Head of School to undertake Honours will normally be routinely nodded through. Students who have an average of 65% in a major sequence, not necessarily the one in which they wish to pursue Honours, may be allowed to proceed to Honours as long as the Head of School has made a case to the Faculty as to the relevance and adequacy of the student's background.

Every academic member of our staff is available to supervise Honours and BMedSc projects. Each year some suggested projects are posted, however if students wish to nominate and pursue topics of their own devising, the School is very happy to consider this option.