Honours

Welcome to the Honours Year. We hope that you will have a fruitful year exploring deeper into the various Global Studies themes. The prospectus below is prepared to give you the necessary infrastructure to manoeuvre through this unique year.

To fulfill the Global Studies Honours requirements, students will be required to complete the Core Courses for Honours which includes: GL4101 Research in Global Issues and GL4102 Task Force. These courses are offered consecutively each academic year. Information on other Honours requirements can be found here.

We will offer GL coded 4000-level electives for our majors to read. These courses will add depth to the various themes of the major. The offering of these courses are subject to the research interests of the faculty members. Students may also choose to read 4000-level courses from other departments recognised under their theme.

The prospectus outlines procedures for applying and writing an Honours Thesis (8 Units) or a shorter project through the Independent Study Course (4 Units). We would like to emphasize that students should pay careful attention to the instructions and keep to the deadlines listed to avoid being imposed with any penalties. Students should begin planning for an Honours Thesis a full academic year prior to their graduating semester. This includes not only the topic, but finding an adviser.

**Note: Honours Thesis and Independent Study Course can only be taken in your graduating semester.

Outstanding Honours students stand to win one of the following cash prizes:

(i) Best Global Studies Honours Student, and

(ii) Best Honours Thesis or Task Force Contributor.

Download Global Studies Programme - Honours Prospectus

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Deadlines

Honours Thesis - Only on Graduating Semester

Submissions \ Terms	Semester 1 - AY24-25 Normal Registration	Semester 2 - AY24-25 Normal Registration
HT Application Email Sent out	Mid-June 14-June 24	Mid-October 14-Oct 24
Application Submission Deadline	Mid-July 15-July 24	December 16-Dec 24
*Deadline to change HT title and/or synopsis	Week 8 11-Oct 24	Week 8 14-Mar 25
Upload softcopy of HT onto Canvas	Last Working day of Oct 31-Oct 24	Last Working day of Mar 31-Mar 25
IRB Application	Once your HT proposal is approved, you have to submit the IRB application form (if applicable) within 2 weeks from the HT approval date. Interviews and surveys may commence only after IRB approval is given.

*Penalty will be imposed if application for change is made after the deadline.

Independent Study Course

Submissions \ Writing Term	Semester 1 AY2024-2025	Semester 2 AY2024-2025
Start of ISC Application	14-Jun-24	13-Oct-24
Submit ISC Application Form Deadline	15-Jul-24	16-Dec-24
*Changes to Title/Synopsis or Supervisor	Week 8 11-Oct-24	Week 8 14-Mar-25
Upload softcopy of ISC onto Canvas	31-Oct-24	31-Mar-25
IRB Application Submissions	Once your ISC proposal is approved, you have to submit the IRB application form (if applicable) within 2 weeks from the ISC approval date. Interviews and surveys may commence only after IRB approval is given.

*Penalty will be imposed if application for change is made after the deadline.

Methods / Honours Thesis Preparatory Courses

Global Studies Majors may have to undertake specific courses from departments where their choice of supervisor is from. There are methods courses from departments which you may find useful in reading to enhance your probability of securing a supervisor from the Department as well as being adequately prepared to write the thesis or ISM in that specific discipline. GL3101 is intended to deal specifically with some of the methodological approaches appropriate to the study of globalisation as presented in the core courses of the degree programme. However, depending on your interests, additional skills may be necessary for writing the HT. There is also the administrative complication that other programmes in FASS have established procedures for the HT with their own pre-requisites that we need to accommodate. You may therefore find that you may need to take more than one methods course in preparation for the GL HT.

At this point you may have to use the credits from the unrestricted electives component to read these modules.

You may want to arrange for consultation Dr Joshua Ryan Watkins - poljrw@nus.edu.sg, our Global Studies Honours Coordinator, to provide guidance on which methods course would be applicable to you and other concerns that you may have regarding writing a Thesis or Independent Study Module

We would encourage you to consider preparing for your HT as early as possible to accommodate the preparatory modules as well as the technical and research aspects of the writing. An ARS2 students who is keen to do Honours should be well tuned to these expectations.

Department	Code	Title
Comunications & New Media	NM2103	Quantitative Research Methods
Comunications & New Media	NM2104	Qualitative communication Research Methods
Comunications & New Media	NM4102	Advanced Communications & New Media Research
Economics	EC2104	Quantitative Mehods for Economic Analysis
History	HY2259	The Craft of History
Japanese Studies	JS2101	Approaches to Japanese Studies I
Japanese Studies	JS3101	Approaches to Japanese Studies II
Japanese Studies	JS4101	Research & Writing in Japanese Studies
Japanese Studies	MS4101	Theory & Practice in Malay Studies
Philosophy	PH2110	Logic
Philosophy	PH3201	Philosophy of Social Science
Political Science	PS3257	Political Inquiry
Psychology	PL2131	Research & Statistical Methods I
Psychology	PL2132	Research & Statistical Methods II
Social Work	SW3101	Social Work Research Methods
Social Work	SW4103	Advanced Research & Evaluation
Sociology	SC2101	Methods of Social Research
Sociology	SC3101	Social Thought & Social Theory
Sociology	SC3209	Data Analysis in Social Research
Sociology	SC3213	Ethnographic Analysis of Visual Media
Sociology	SC3221	Qualitative Inquiry
South Asian Studies	SN4101	Approaches to the Study of South Asia
Southeast Asian Studies	SE4101	Southeast Asian Studies: Theory & Practice

Library Tutorials

Students are encouraged to attend the tutorial session organised by the Library to learn how (a) to gather information for research; (b) to make better use of relevant indexes and databases; and (c) to manage and automate citations using Endnote. The session will also include other services available for Honours students. These tutorials sessions are especially important for students embarking on their thesis or ISM. However, GL majors are strongly encouraged to attend the library tutorial before they embark on GL3101 or GL4102. As these academic exercises are principally self-driven, students should know how to carry out their own research quickly, efficiently and comprehensively.

GL majors should attend the library sessions organised primarily for the major and where applicable the sessions which are scheduled for the discipline from which the HT/ISM supervisor comes from. The slots for these 2.5 hour sessions are can be found in the library guide.