Bachelor of Commerce (Liberal Studies) (Honours) in Geology and Geophysics

The Business School Honours Program is an additional year of intensive study that students with a superior academic record may undertake upon completion of the Bachelor of Commerce. The program is designed to challenge, inspire and set you apart to accelerate your global business career. Honours can fast track your future, whether you want to go into advanced research study or your chosen industry. Our program aims to produce Honours graduates who are highly motivated, organised and demonstrate superior initiative. As an Honours student, you will study advanced coursework topics and complete a research thesis. The coursework units have been developed to build your mastery of research methods and expertise in a given Business discipline. Business School Honours graduates join an exclusive and exceptional cohort. In completing your honours thesis you will work one-on-one with an expert in the discipline to investigate a research problem and expand the existing body of knowledge within your area of study. Success in the Honours program is driven by the applied focus of the student. If you have unanswered questions from your undergraduate degree, the program gives you the opportunity to go further. The specialist knowledge and skills developed and applied in an honours year are sought out by employers and set you on an upward trajectory. Our alumni are now represented throughout senior positions in academia, government and the business sector.

Honours in Geology and Geophysics will equip you with advanced skills to understand the processes that form the natural resources we use, generate natural hazards, shape the Earth’s surface and control the evolution of its ecosystems and anthroposystems, control the evolution of oceans and continents.

Geology and Geophysics is a highly interdisciplinary field of study. To address big challenges revolving around sustainability and climate change, this discipline combines geological and geophysical tools with techniques from other science fields, such as chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science.

Recent Geology and Geophysics graduates have secured employment with major mining, geotechnical, and environmental companies in Australia and overseas, Geoscience Australia, the CSIRO, geological surveys, financial institutions and universities.

The minimum entry requirement to the Business School Honours Program is a completed pass degree with a minimum Weighted Average Mark (WAM) of 65 across all units of study taken, and a minimum of 70 in units completed in the major relating to the intended specialisation in the Honours Program. Students are required to have a major in the field of study in which they intend to undertake their Honours Year. Entry requirements may be waived for an applicant by the Associate Dean (Programs) and Honours Program Director only in exceptional circumstances.

Places in the program are offered competitively and where there are appropriate supervisory resources. Preference may be given to applicants with a higher academic standard, applicants who have completed additional, relevant undergraduate units of study, and/or applicants who have a demonstrated research interest and ability within a specialisation.
IELTS - A minimum result of 7.0 overall and a minimum result of 6.0 in each band
TOEFL IBT - A minimum result of 96 overall including a minimum result of 17 in Reading, Listening and Speaking and 19 in Writing