Honours Information Session Faculty of Health Arts & Design Dr. Karen Farquharson Associate Dean (Research and Engagement)

Honours Information Session Faculty of Health Arts & Design

Dr. Karen Farquharson

Associate Dean (Research and Engagement)

Associate Professor Esther Milne

Program Convenor

Faculty of Health, Arts and Design

Honours and Fourth Year

Bachelor of Science (Honours) Z0466 Bachelor of Arts (Honours) N052

Swinburne Faculty of Health, Arts and Design

• Personal/Professional Development

• Entry requirement for most post-graduate study (Masters, PhD, Professional Doctorate)

• Gives you a competitive edge in the job market

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Why do Honours?


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Strengths of Honours and Fourth Year Graduates

• Enriched and extensive knowledge base in their chosen area

• Demonstrated capacity to show initiative and self-direction in project management

• Advanced level of research and problem solving skills • Advanced level of writing and communication skills


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Who is eligible for Honours?

• You are eligible if you have:

Satisfied the requirements of an undergraduate pass degree with a relevant major

Achieved an average level of Credit or better. Students who achieve 2 Distinctions or better at third year may be considered

Individual streams vary so check with convenors during application stage


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These streams are available under the BA Honours Degree:

Media (Esther Milne)

Social Science (Deb Dempsey)

Culture, Nature and Civilisation (Arran Gare)

Psychology (Christine Critchley)

Languages (Simone Battiston)

Honours in Media (Games, Writing, PR, Advertising, Cinema & Screen Studies and Journalism)

Esther Milne

Convenor

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Honours in Media + Games + Journalism

Convenor: Dr Esther Milne [email protected]

Entry requirements:

• Credit or above average • Demonstrated potential for research (eg Media/Lit Project; and

Information Society) • Relevant, researchable idea for thesis topic


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Honours in Media + Games + Journalism

Course Structure

Course Work/Thesis

Media Research Seminar (first semester) 2 x Electives: (second semester) Multiplatform Journalism Media Public Policy Media Theory and DVD production

Thesis (by dissertation or project) 15,000 – 18,000 words


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Examples of Projects and Theses

Examining the Representation of Female News Presenters on Australian Television

Gansta Rap: Has hip-hop sold out? (DVD film & thesis)

Designing Fear: Creating Fear and Immersion Through the use of Gameplay Mechanics

‘Hashtag is Spillard’: How the cycle of hegemony in the news was contested on Twitter during Australia’s leadership spill

The Barrel and the Monkey: application of auteur theory to digital games design

Trust Pink, Forget Feminism: stereotypes in Australian advertising

The Impact of neoliberalism on the Media in Democratic Nations


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Outcomes• Industry: journalism, social media, PR, publishing, tutoring

• Further Research: Masters, PhD

Current PhD Candidates in Media include:

Sharing in Networked culture

• Domain Grrls: the history of an online group

• How to challenge a stereotype: media policy and intervention

• Screen Violence and Moral Panics

• Anonymity on Social Media

Interested in Media Honours 2015? contact [email protected]

Dr Deb DempseyConvenor

Social Science Honours

(sociology and politics)


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Why do Social Sciences Honours?

• Prerequisite for further study: Masters or PhD • Fewer graduates in the job market have a four year degree

May give you ‘edge’ with entry to Australian Government Graduate programs.

• Skills development in doing research, intellectual problem-solving, report writing, managing a project

• A rewarding challenge in a supportive, small group teaching environment


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Social Science

Social Science Honours Students:• Design and carry out their own project • Work closely with their supervisor in developing,

undertaking and writing up their projects • Attend weekly seminars with their peers

• Quite a different experience from tutorials/lectures!

Entry requirements • You must have completed an undergraduate pass

degree with a major in Politics or Sociology• 70 grade point average (Sociology or Politics marks

particularly important)• Feasible topic


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Subjects

First semester: (12.5 credit points) HAF445 Issues in the Social Sciences (12.5 credit points) HAF440 Seminar A (25 credit points) HAF442 Thesis A (meetings with supervisor)

Second semester: (25 credit points) HAF441 Seminar B (25 credit points) HAF443 Thesis B (meetings with supervisor)

Final Honours Mark: 40% course work, 60% thesis


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Some recent Honours theses titles and topics

‘For more than just the postcard’: Understanding the experiences of Australian undergraduate exchange students

Slutwalk or Tart Parade? The de-politicisation of third wave feminism and sexual violence prevention in Australian newspapers

‘This unholy asylum seeker mess’: Australia’s asylum seeker policy under the Rudd Government

Inauspicious, intemperate and independent: Australia-US relations 1972-76

Does Youth Allowance policy disadvantage rural and remote young people? Grandparents doing gender: Experiences of grandmothers and grandfathers caring for grandchildren in Australia

For the love of the game: Women playing Aussie rules football

How do gay identifying punks form notions of identity?


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Social Sciences Honours Bursaries

- A bursary of $1,000 each is awarded to the top Sociology and Politics Honours applicant each year

- In 2014, the recipients were Christopher Mudaliar (Politics) and Teresa Soderlund (Sociology)

ours applicant each yearIn 2014, the recipients were Christopher AA

Swinburne

SCIENCE | TECHNOLOGY | INNOVATION | BUSINESS | DESIGN

Interested?

Faculty of Health, Arts and Design

• Contact me at [email protected] Happy to meet up for a chat about your project and/or recommend a suitable supervisor if you are unsure

• Applications close Friday Feb 13 2015 (apply by the end of the year if possible) Specify ‘Social Sciences’ strand on your application form.

• http://www.future.swinburne.edu.au/courses/Bachelor-of-Arts-%28Honours%29-BH-ARTS/local#apply

• You will need to write 150 words about your proposed project and give the name of your preferred supervisor on the form.

mailto:[email protected]

http://www.future.swinburne.edu.au/courses/Bachelor-of-Arts-(Honours)-BH-ARTS/local


Arran Gare

Convenor

Culture, Nature, Civilization


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How does it work?

Course structure: Two Coursework subjects:

Narrative, Discourse Ideology, in Semester 1. Globalization, Subjugation, Liberation in Semester 2. Students can begin in either first or second semester, and take these units in either order.

A Thesis Component: This consists of a thesis of 15,000 words.

This stream accepts students from any major in the BA.


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Examples of Project

More than a hundred students have completed this stream, with theses having been written in cultural studies, politics, philosophy, history, feminism, literature, film and media studies, Japanese studies and Italian studies. It is now designed to also serve students majoring in sustainability management. The titles of the four students’ theses who complete their degree last semester provides some idea of the range of topics that can be covered:

Intersubjective Narrative Identity; Reviving Schelling’s Naturphilosophie; The Development of Human Rights; and A Philosophical Exploration of How Different Cultures Treat, Translate, and Transform Suffering.


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Expected Outcomes

Graduates from this course frequently go on to postgraduate research courses, with more than ten graduates having completed Ph.D.s.

Essentially, this is a trans-disciplinary course, providing the education traditionally known as ‘liberal arts’. It sets students up for a wide range of careers, and graduates have gone into, among other areas, the media, politics, journalism, NGOs such as Oxfam, the civil service, academia and business.

Arts Honours

(Languages)

Dr Simone Battiston (Italian)

Dr Theresa Savage (Japanese)

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Why do an Arts Honours (Languages)?

• Prerequisite for further study: Masters or PhD • Fewer graduates in the job market have a four year degree• May give you ‘edge’ with entry to Australian Government Graduate

programs.• Skills development in doing research, intellectual problem-solving, report

writing, managing a project within an Italian- or Japanese language and culture setting

• Thesis to be written in either English or in the target language (Italian or Japanese)

• A rewarding challenge in a supportive, small group teaching environment


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Language Honours Students:

Design and carry out their own project

Work closely with their supervisor in developing, undertaking and writing up their projects

Further develop their Italian or Japanese language skills

Attend weekly seminars with their peers

Quite a different experience from tutorials/lectures!

Entry requirements

You must have completed an undergraduate pass degree with a major in Italian or Japanese

70 grade point average (Italian or Japanese language and culture marks particularly important)

Feasible topic


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Subjects (Italian)

First semester:

(25 credit points) ITA40001 Italian Seminar A

(25 credit points) ITA40002 Italian Seminar B

Second semester:

(25 credit points) ITA40003 Italian Thesis A (meetings with supervisor)

(25 credit points) ITA40004 Italian Thesis B (meetings with supervisor)

Final Honours Mark: 40% course work, 60% thesis


Subjects (Japanese)

First semester:

- (25 credit points) JPN40001 Japanese Seminar A

- (25 credit points) JPN40002 Japanese Seminar B

Second semester:

- (25 credit points) JPN40003 Japanese Thesis A (meetings with supervisor)

- (25 credit points) JPN40004 Japanese Thesis B (meetings with supervisor)

- Final Honours Mark: 40% course work, 60% thesis


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Some recent thesis titles and topics • Hiroko Woods , Comparative study of traits attributed to animals in Korean

and Japanese proverbs (supervised by Theresa Savage)

The Il Globo (1959-1993) Project (supervised by Simone Battiston)

• Brent Edwards (2008), Australian post-war immigration issues according to Italian-language newspaper Il Globo, 1959–1969 (later published in Migration Studies, Vol. 46, No. 176, pp. 850-866, 2009)

• Justin D’Andrea (2009), Australian multicultural policies according to Italian-language newspaper Il Globo, 1969–1979

• Clare Johansson (2011), The editorial commentary of the Italian-language newspaper Il Globo from 1979 to 1989: A critical analysis (later published in Media History, Vol. 20, No. 4, pp. 416-430, 2014)

• Daniella Sepe (2013), The ethnic print media sector in Australia: A critical study of the Italian-language newspaper Il Globo from 1979 to 1993


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Language Honours Bursaries

A bursary of $1,000 is awarded to the top Italian Honours applicant (NEW)

$1,000 bursary is awarded to the top Japanese Honours applicant (NEW)

The Charles D’Aprano Scholarship is awarded every second year to the top Italian Studies applicant wishing to do research in Italy (at undergraduate or postgraduate level) ($2,000 in 2013—amount to be confirmed in due course)licanhin000 in 2013—amount to be confirmed in due course)


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Interested?

• Contact Simone Battiston at [email protected] for Italian or Theresa Savage at [email protected] for Japanese. Happy to meet up for a chat about your project and/or recommend a suitable supervisor if you are unsure

• Applications close Friday Feb 13 2015 (apply by the end of the year if possible) Specify ‘Languages’ strand on your application form.

• http://www.future.swinburne.edu.au/courses/Bachelor-of-Arts-%28Honours%29-BH-ARTS/local#apply

• You will need to write 150 words about your proposed project and give the name of your preferred supervisor on the form.





Dr Christine Critchley

Convenor

Honours in Psychology

Post Graduate Diploma in Psychology


How does it work?

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Core subjects: • Psychological Assessment • Ethical and Professional Issues • Advanced Quantitative Methods • Theses A and B

Elective subjects (must do two) : • Contemporary Psychology • Neuroscience Methods • Counselling Psychology • Neuropsychology Methods • Current issues in Social Psychology* • (7 subjects in total)


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Entry requirements:

Two steps:

Must have:Credit level in all second and third year psychology subjects (with one exception)

Then ranked:Average of all psychology second (1/3) and third year (2/3) psychology subjects

Aim for mid 70’s - 80


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Examples of Projects

• Burnout in flight attendants• Depression and anxiety • Trust in environmental scientists and climate change scepticism• Forensic Psychology • Eyewitness testimony of children• Jury decision making and procedural justice• Materialism and well being: Does money make us happy? • Motivations for fatherhood • Body dysmorphic disorders• Autobiographical memory and post-traumatic stress • Psychosocial aspects of living with Parkinsons Disease • Anxiety and impulsive purchasing • Neuroimaging• Cognitive development and suppliments


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Expected Outcomes

• PhD by research • Masters by research • Masters in Clinical Psychology • Masters in Counselling Psychology • Doctorate in Clinical Psychology • Doctorate in Counselling Psychology • Combined PhD Masters in Clinical Psychology • Registration as a Probationary Psychologist

Dr Andrew Pipingas

Convenor

Psychophysiology/

Cognitive Neuroscience


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Areas of Research

The following strands are available in BSc(Hons): • Biomedical Technology• Cognitive Neuroscience • Health Science • Psychophysiology • Psychology* • Sport Science


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How does it work?

Semester 1 NPS40003 Project 1 (25cp) NEU40002 Neuroscience Methods (12.5cp) PSY40001 Advanced quantitative methods (12.5cp) Semester 2 NPS40001 Project 2 (37.5cp) NEU40001 Neuropsychology methods (12.5cp)

Course Entry – credit average and above Neuro equivalent major


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Examples of Project

Biological basis of personality Nutrition/supplements, brain function and ageing Nutrition/supplements and mood Neuroimaging of visual attention Emotional intelligence and education ERPs and emotional control Social and affective cognitive neuroscience Brain electrical activity and neurodevelopment Drugs and driving Neurocognitive ageing and cardiovascular function Physiological monitoring during sleep and attention

Methods: Computerised cognitive, mood and stress, biomedical, EEG, cardiovascular, bloods, MRI, MEG, MRI+EEG, MEG+EEG, eye movement, TMS, driving simulator

A/Prof Andrew Pipingas x5215 [email protected] List of 2014 Projects/Supervisors


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Expected Outcomes

Personal Development

Honours is entry requirement for most postgraduate courses (eg. Masters, PhD, Professional Doctorate)

Competitive edge in the job market – hospitals, research facilities, pharma/nutraceutical, food, technology

Biomedical Technology

Dr Mark Schier

Convenor

Swinburne


Faculty of Health, Arts & Design

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How does it work?Similar structure to Psychophysiology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Sports Science

Semester 1 NPS4003 Project 1 (25cp) NEU40002 Neuroscience Methods (12.5cp) STA60001 Statistical Practice 1 (12.5cp) Semester 2 NPS40001 Project 2 (37.5cp) MBP40001 Biomedical Research Topics (12.5cp)*

* Alternative units STA60005 Statistical Practice 2 (12.5 cp)NEU40001 Neuropsychology Methods (12.5 cp)

Course Entry - average of 65% and above

Swinburne Faculty of Health, Arts & Design

- Effects of visual flicker on blood pressure

- Physiological monitoring during sleep and attention

- Performance related to music

- Golf putting and heart rate variability

- Somatosensory evoked responses and meditation

Examples of Previous Projects

Future Projects

Human visual monitoringHuman performance and physiological measuresDevelopment of technology for measurementEEG and ERP studies

many others – which may be supervisor dependent

Health Science (Public Health & Health Promotion Streams)

Dr Sarah McLean

Swinburne



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How does it work?

Semester 1

SOC30011 Social Research Design: Principles and Methods (12.5 cp)

SOC30001 Qualitative Research Methods (12.5 cp)

Semester 2

PEH40001 Honours Seminars (25 cp)

PEH40002 Honours Project (50 cp)

Course Entry - average of >65% in final year *

*Additional entry requirements may be required for Health Promotion stream

Swinburne



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Examples of Previous Projects Public HealthProcess evaluation of the Water Management Plans at selected correctional Facilities in Victoria

Investigating the microbiological quality of culturally diverse, ready to eat foods

The Spread of Meningococcal Disease via Drinking Vessels

An investigation into microbial quality of raw bovine milk from selected bulk tanks in Victoria

Future Projects

Public HealthEffect of water temperature on food handler hand hygiene

Health PromotionAn exploration of the perspectives and experiences of students who are smokers of Swinburne University Smoke Free policy

Honours Opportunities

Bachelor of Health Science (Sports Science)

Swinburne


Skill Acquisition/ motor learning

- Decision making in team sports

- Assessing cognitive and physical performance

- Cognitive effort

Swinburne Biomechanics

Gait analysis

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Technical evaluation of sports skills

Sports equipment /Wearable technologies

Swinburne Performance analysis

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Evaluation of in game performance

Swinburne

- Other sports science related projects may be available

- If you are interested in another area of sports science – please contact Clare MacMahon ([email protected]) to see if we can accommodate.

Other potential areas

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What are your research interests?


B. Design (Honours)

B. Design (Communication Design )

Dr. Simone Taffe

Convenor

Student Panel Q&A

Faculty of Life and Social Sciences

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ADMISSION PROCESS

Bridie Clarke

Admissions Coordinator

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Honours Information Session Faculty of Health Arts & Design Dr. Karen Farquharson Associate Dean (Research and Engagement)