• What is Information Systems?
  • Business Information Systems
  • Accounting Information Systems
  • Business Security Management
  • eBusiness
  • Interactive Marketing
  • Health Informatics
  • Professional Practice
  • Quantitative Business Analysis
  • Supply Chain Management
  • Technology Management
• Undergraduate Courses
• Bachelor of Business Information Systems
  • BBIS Prospects
  • Student Profile
  • Applying for the BBIS
  • BBIS course structure
• Bachelor of Business Information Systems/Bachelor of Information Technology
• IS majors in the Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Management
• Honours
  • Honours Prospects
  • Applying for Honours
• Postgraduate Courses
• Master of Information Systems
  • MIS Prospects
  • Applying for the MIS
• Master of Accounting Information Systems
• Doctor of Philosophy

Course Information

Honours

IS Honours is designed to introduce Information Systems students to research and research procedures and to enhance their preparation for professional employment in the information industries. The program is a blend of these two activities since research activity is to be found in many industry jobs. The vocational aspects of IS Honours are also relevant to those intending to pursue a career in research.

While Honours can be hard work, most students find study at Honours level both rewarding and enjoyable. Undertaking an Honours degree provides ample opportunities to read and debate issues surrounding leading edge technologies, dare to ask questions no one has ever asked, pursue a topic of your own unique curiosity, explore and discover what has been previously unknown, to emerge as your own unique piece of research. All of these are intellectually challenging, stimulating, inspiring and rewarding.

What is Honours?

Two integral components of IS Honours are coursework units and a research thesis.

The coursework units allow students to learn, discover and debate issues surrounding leading edge technologies whereas the research project offers open-ended opportunities to focus on specific issues that interest each individual student.

These two components develop and advance the students' group interaction skills, self-organisation and behaviour to professional standards.

Course Structure

Candidates for the IS Honours Program within the Bachelor of Commerce (Honours) are required to complete a combination of coursework units, and a thesis (or research report).