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Honours Program
 
Coursework

Students must complete two coursework seminars.

Students may choose to do both seminars at Macquarie, or they may choose one of their seminars from Macquarie and one (but one only) from the Honours seminars offered by Government and International Relations at the University of Sydney (Merewether Building, City Road, Broadway) or the School of Politics and International Relations at the University of New South Wales (Morven Brown Building, Kensington campus).

Seminars, wherever they are offered, are available in the first semester only. Full-time students take both seminars in the same semester; part-time students may take one seminar in one semester and take the other seminar two semesters later, at the beginning of the following year. The 'Scope and Methods' seminar is undertaken by all Macquarie students in the first semester.

Note:
  • The two seminars cannot be in the same general area; for example, students will not be allowed to enrol in two international relations seminars, two in political theory or two in Comparative or Australian politics. (Decisions about what falls into 'the same general area' are made by the Head of Department and the Honours Convenors).
  • A seminar may be cancelled if the numbers are too low.
  • Entry into seminars run at the University of Sydney or University of New South Wales may be restricted if the number of students wishing to enrol is too large.

Students intending to enrol in the Honours program will be asked to fill out a form to indicate their seminar preferences.

Students hoping to enrol in seminars at the University of Sydney, should first contact the co-ordinator of the Honours program in the Department of Government and International Relations:
Dr Ariadne Vromen, phone 9351 6602, email:a.vromen@econ.usyd.edu.au

Those hoping to enrol in seminars at University of New South Wales, should first contact the co-ordinator of the Honours program in the School of Politics and International Relations:
Dr Katherine Gelber, phone 9385 2383, email: k.gelber@unsw.edu.au or Dr Helen Pringle, phone 9385 2346.
 
Submission of essays

Students are required to submit two copies of their seminar essays.

The submission date for essays at Macquarie is the beginning of the examination period. Extensions will be granted only on well documented grounds of illness or misadventure.

Late submissions will incur a penalty of one per cent per working day; that is, five per cent per week. Papers that are excessively long (more than 10% above or below the word limit) will also be penalised.
 
Assessment

Individual seminars may be conducted in different ways, but all will require substantial reading, regular attendance and active participation in class discussions.

In each of the Macquarie seminars, students will be required to produce a 5,000 word essay; this essay will be the only piece of assessable work.

Essays will be double marked by members of the staff other than the lecturer-in-charge of the seminar.
 
Return of essays

All essays, bearing the comments (no marks) will be available for collection from the Department Office by the 1st or 2nd week of December.