EV4601 - Joint Honours in Tropical Environment Studies and Geography (Part 1 of 2)

Credit points:	06
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Subject chain:	EV4601 EV4602
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Available to BA and BSc students who are accepted by the Head of School into the honours program. Students who have not completed an introductory statistical methods subject will be required to take such a subject as a corequisite.

Joint Honours in Tropical Environment Studies and Geography provides opportunities for further study in any of the four specialities offered by the school (Spatial Analysis, Physical Geography, Environmental Studies and Human Geography) in conjunction with another discipline, and for research into a topic that interests the student. The aim of the honours degree is to develop and assess the ability of a student to undertake independent research. The work is a combination of research proposal, a seminar presentation, colloquia, literature review and a thesis. Except with the approval of the Head of School/Associate Dean, all subjects in a chain must be studied in consecutive teaching periods.

Learning Outcomes

• training in research skills, coursework relevant to disciplinary goals and the support and advice of academic and administrative staff.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to define and to solve problems in at least one discipline area;
• The ability to speak and write logically, clearly and creatively;
• A coherent and disciplined body of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics in at least one discipline area;
• A commitment to lifelong learning and intellectual development.

Prerequisites:	Satisfactory fulfilment of requirements for entry into Environmental Science Honours program
Inadmissible Subject Combinations:	TG4100 and TG4110 and GE4600

Availabilities
As this subject is part of a subject chain, a final standard grade (e.g. P, C) will only be recorded for each subject after successful completion of all parts of the subject chain.
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