Building on the capabilities students acquired at undergraduate degree level, students will design and develop a research project and complete a scholarly thesis as they undertake advanced coursework, which provides a firmer grounding in the field and in research methods.
Students will:
- Engage with the academic world of criminal justice by becoming part of a network of talented students providing fresh insights and information to the justice industry through deeper analysis.
- Become familiar with a variety of criminal justice professional environments, enabling they to add value to organizations and improve practice. Employers value an honours degree as it demonstrates higher-order research, analysis and writing skills.
- Enhance their sense of professional identity and widen their learning horizons through exposure to a greater range of professional and research practice.
On successful completion of the program, students would be able to pursue either higher degree study, or to seek employment in the professional policy formation and implementation sectors. Specifically, as an Honours graduate students will be required to demonstrate the following capabilities:.
- apply creativity, critical thinking and innovation when identifying and solving justice and criminology problems in diverse contexts
- critique the value of information and knowledge from a wide variety of sources and experiences and
- reflect on and evaluate their application in justice and criminology research
- apply a range of social science research methods to design and conduct independent and collaborative
- research, which constructs, tests and defends an argument, and undertake social analysis considering
- the theoretical, historical, local and international contexts of decision making
- communicate professional ideas using diverse formats and strategies to academic and professional
- audiences within and external to justice and criminology disciplines
- critically examine dominant literature and theoretical knowledge in justice and criminological fields to
- undertake innovative policy analysis and assess risk in justice and criminological contexts
Please note that applicants from some countries will be required to pay a non-refundable application fee. The fee will go towards the tuition deposit for any students who enroll.
