Please note that the Honours Thesis is not compulsory and will no longer be a requirement to attain Honours Highest Distinction for all FASS cohorts. As such, students who cannot meet the pre-requisite to read the Honours Thesis or chose not to read the Honours Thesis can read an independent study course or other level-4000 courses to accumulate the required units for the Honours requirements. Students will still need to achieve a GPA of 4.5 or above in order attain Honours Highest Distinction.

The department will look at your results based on the immediate past 2 semesters. This means that if you met the pre-requisites for the Honours Thesis 2 semesters ago, but do not meet it now, you can still submit your application for the Honours Thesis. For example, you met the pre-requisite based on your results as at Semester 1 AY19/20, and started looking for a supervisor in Semester 2 AY19/20. However, you did not do well in Semester 2 AY19/20, and thus no longer meet the pre-requisite to do the Honours Thesis in Semester 1 AY20/21. You can still submit the application form for the Honours Thesis, and we will consider your application based on your results as at Semester 1 AY19/20 and Semester 2 AY19/20.

Important Notes:

1. For cohort 2020 and before: EC4401HM Honours Thesis is worth 15 Units in total (i.e. equivalent to 3 honours level-4000HM courses).
2. For cohort 2021 onwards: EC4401 Honours Thesis is worth 8 Units in total (i.e. equivalent to 2 honours level-4000 courses).
3. For cohort 2020 and before: EC4660HM Independent Study is worth 5 Units.
4. For cohort 2021 onwards: EC4660 Independent Study is worth 4 Units.

HT forms and guides
Link to EC4401 prerequisites/preclusions >>

ISC forms and guides
Link to EC4660 prerequisites/preclusions >>