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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
HONOURS HANDBOOK 2017
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Flinders University, Adelaide
Telephone: 8201 2225/8201 2559 | Fax: 8201 5111
Email: [email protected]
Honours Convenor 2017 Dr Andrekos Varnava
Telephone: 8201 2423 | Email: [email protected]
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Contents
HONOURS .........................................................................................................................4
HONOURS TIMELINE AT A GLANCE: 2017............................................................................8
COURSEWORK: TOPICS, STRUCTURE AND ASSESSMENT.....................................................9
TOPIC OUTLINE................................................................................................................10
HONOURS THESIS.............................................................................................................13
HOW HONOURS WORK IS GRADED..................................................................................15
HONOURS THESIS SUPERVISORS......................................................................................16
THESIS PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS - CHECKLIST........................................................18
STEP-BY-STEP COUNTDOWN TO SUBMISSION OF THESIS – 30 OCTOBER 2017..................19
THE HONOURS YEAR: SOME NOTES AND HINTS................................................................20
LIBRARY COPIES OF HONOURS THESES.............................................................................22
GENERAL REMARKS ON SYLE AND REFENCING CONVENTION...........................................23
STUDENT PRIZES..............................................................................................................27
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HONOURS IN HISTORY and INTERNATIONAL RELATIONSBasic Information
What is an Honours Degree?The Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of International Relations honours degrees are conferred after one year's full-time study or up to two years part-time study at fourth year level. Entry to these honours programs is open to students who have achieved a high standard of work in their ordinary BA and BIR degree. The great advantages of an honours degree are the opportunities it provides for advanced study in various specialised fields of History and International Relations, and for you to further develop a range of transferable skills, not least the capacity for critical thinking and the ability to argue effectively, as well as highly competent research techniques and project management. An honours degree is highly regarded by many employers and, for some positions, is a prerequisite. It is also an essential qualification for students who wish to progress to a PhD. The experience of studying at honours level offers students many intellectual and personal benefits. Although demanding, most find it immensely rewarding and enjoyable.
What are the prerequisites for entry to Honours?To qualify automatically to enrol in honours, a student needs to have at least a 5.33 GPA (a Faculty-wide standard), and a major in History or International Relations, with a CR grade or better in any 2 upper level History or International Relations topics, preferably with at least two DN grades. You need to be aware that there are some practical limitations on the School’s capacity to provide topics or supervision in some areas you may wish to study – although there remains a fairly wide range of possibilities.
Students who satisfy these requirements will be sent an automatic offer of entry to honours and a form which needs to be returned to the University by the date specified. http://www.flinders.edu.au/for_prospective_students_files/Documents/honours_application_form.pdf
Students beginning their honours studies enrol during the late January enrolment period. Early enquiries may be made through the school honours convenor, Dr Andrekos Varnava, can be reached on 8201 2423 or by email [email protected]
What constitutes the Honours program in our school?An honours program consists of 36 units, 18 units of which are accounted for by 3 coursework topics, and 18 units by a thesis. In 2016, the following topics will be taught:
History
HIST7001 A,B,C & D (18 units thesis, 15,000-18,000 word thesis) HIST7006: Making History: Current Directions in Historiography (9 units) HIST7054 Advanced Historical Research (4.5 units) HIST7055 Historical Practice (4.5 units)
International Relations
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INTR7015A, B, C & D (18 units thesis, 15,000-18,000 word thesis) INTR7002 Debating International Relations (9 units) INTR7018 Advanced Research in History and International Relations (4.5 units)
(this topic will be co-taught with HIST7054 Advanced Historical Research) INTR7017 From Topic to Thesis: Honours Workshop (4.5 units)
NOTE: Details relating to the thesis component are on p. 12 Details of the coursework topics available are on p. 9 All topics run for one semester. Generally, there are about 10-12 meetings in a topic. All these are small group seminar style meetings.
Can I do Honours part-time?Yes. Although many students complete the honours program in one year of full-time study, the proportion of those enrolling part-time is significant, as some students have work and family commitments outside their university study. Students wishing to enrol part-time need the approval of the Undergraduate Standing Committee.
Part-time students may, if they wish, take up to two years to complete their honours program. Part-time honours students must do the required coursework topics in their first year. The honours thesis must be completed within 2 consecutive semesters except under exceptional circumstances.
In an Honours Degree, can I combine History or International Relations with an area from a different discipline?Yes. If qualified in both disciplines, you may enrol for a joint honours program, combining History or International Relations with work in any other discipline in the Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences or the Faculty of Education, Humanities and Law. A joint degree consists of a minimum of 9 units from each school. This agreement needs to be recorded in a letter, with both Schools having a copy. Refer to the Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences honours information for further details.http://www.flinders.edu.au/sabs/repository-files/asa/Accepted%20into%20Honours.pdf
Can I delay entry to the honours program?Yes. Once you have received an offer to enrol in honours you may delay enrolment for one year only. After that, you have to re-apply again - something we would welcome.
Other Practicalities
a. Financial HelpFinancial assistance is available for all honours students through the School of History and International Relations. Financial assistance of $100.00 is available to go towards the cost of thesis printing and binding. Bring your receipts to the school office and we will arrange for these costs to be reimbursed.
b. Document DeliveryAs an honours student you can make use of the Central Library’s Document Delivery Service to obtain material for your thesis. It provides an excellent resource, enabling you to borrow items such as articles, journals, books and even some microfilm on ‘inter-library loan’. There is a very liberal upper limit of the number of times you can use the Document Delivery Service in a year. The Document Services Unit telephone number is 8201 2175. You can place orders electronically or in person at the DSU desk. Please see http://www.flinders.edu.au/library/services/docserv/.
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c. Help in the LibraryYou will find another invaluable resource in the Liaison Librarians, and in particular, is Tim Ormsby, who is the Liaison Librarian for the school. Telephone 8201 5183; Email [email protected]
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Misuse of Academic Conventions and Academic Dishonesty
The School of History and International Relations takes very seriously the enforcement of the University and Faculty rules with respect to the “misuse of academic convention” and “academic dishonesty”. These rules are set out in Student Related Policies and Procedures Manual (http://www.flinders.edu.au/ppmanual/student/) and in other documents. Penalties for proven cases of academic dishonesty can be very severe.
It is particularly important that work drawn from another source is clearly acknowledged, and that any quoted material is clearly identified by indentation or by quotation marks. If you are not using a direct quotation but are using information or interpretation from a work, make sure that the source is fully acknowledged and that the account is clearly in your own words. Close paraphrasing, with occasional and minimal changes to wording and sentence structures, is not acceptable, as by its nature this involves substantial elements of unidentified direct quotation.
Ethics Approval from the Social and Behavioural Research Ethics Committee
Any human research (for a thesis, essay or any other University-related work) must have been given prior approval from the Social and Behavioural Research Ethics Committee. It is the responsibility of each student (in conjunction with her or his supervisor) to obtain this approval.
Human research as defined in the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (2007) is “research conducted with or about people, or their data or tissue”. Human participation in research can be broadly understood to include:
taking part in surveys, interviews or focus groups; undergoing psychological, physiological or medical testing or treatment; being observed by researchers; the collection and use of participants’ body organs, tissues or fluids; and access to their personal documents or other materials.
Please visit the website for further information: http://www.flinders.edu.au/research/researcher-support/ethics/committees/social-behavioural.cfm. Because this approval may take time to secure, it is recommended that students apply as early as possible.
Extensions for the honours thesis
The honours convenor may grant an extension (where appropriate) during the honours year.
Extensions beyond the Faculty deadlines at the end of the honours year require formal approval at Faculty level. The ‘Assignment Extension Application’ form should be completed and submitted to the ASA Coursework Office (see http://www.flinders.edu.au/sabs/information/students/).
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HONOURS TIMELINE AT A GLANCE: 2017
27 February Semester 1 begins
22/29 May Seminar presentations (not for International Relations)
5 June Semester 1 ends
24 July Semester 2 begins
1 September It is recommended that all first drafts of theses are completed
and submitted to Supervisor for comment
30 October Submission of thesis
13 November Semester 2 ends
Note:
History honours students are expected to attend History seminars, held at 11:15am on Friday each week during term time.
A countdown to submission guide is at p. 19.
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COURSEWORK: TOPICS, STRUCTURE AND ASSESSMENT1. MeetingsGenerally, there will be 10-12 meetings during the semester. Most topics will be small group meetings in a seminar style, normally held weekly (but meetings times will be agreed on, following January enrolment). Students can expect to receive at least one grade and some feedback on their written work by the middle of the topic. The major essay of the topic will be double-marked.
2. AssessmentAssessment in each of the special honours topics, including whether or not to incorporate an exam component, will be left to the individual convenor, on the understanding that a portion of 4,500 words (4.5 unit topic) will be accounted for by continuous assessment. This allows considerable choice and flexibility for convenor and students in arranging the assessment for a topic.
3. Coursework Topics
History
Semester 1
HIST7006 Making History: Current Directions in Historiography (9 units)
HIST7054 Advanced Historical Research (4.5 units)
Semester 2
HIST7055 Historical Practice (4.5 units)
International Relations
Semester 1
INTR7002 Debating International Relations (9 units)
INTR7018 Advanced Research in History and International Relations (4.5 units)(this topic will be co-taught with HIST7054 Advanced Historical Research)
Semester 2
INTR7017 From Topic to Thesis: Honours Workshop (4.5 units)
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TOPIC OUTLINES
HIST 7006 Making History: Current Directions on HistoriographyAssociate Professor Matthew Fitzpatrick
Units: 9 unitsClass Contact: 2 seminars per week
To become practitioners of history we need to know what is happening to our subject and why. What are the influences that affect its evolution as a scholarly activity and as a social and political phenomenon? In the recent past there have been some critical shifts in the way it is done. Some of these changes are fundamental to the way we see the past and the way we use it. By looking at these changes students will be talking about some of the latest work in ‘the frontier’ of historical writing – some of the most exciting and provocative types of historical work overseas and in Australia. Apart from examining the theory that underpins these recent trends, students will also become familiar with some of the practices of history, that is the essential tasks of locating accessing and their findings.
HIST7054 Advanced Historical ResearchDr Catherine Kevin
Units: 4.5 unitsClass Contact: 5 days intensive over 3 weeks
This topic provides introduction to the honours program, and the expectations of higher degree academic research. It consists of 5 days of intensive interactive workshops designed to provide a working knowledge of:
• Library research and information and retrieval and management,• The formulation and refinement of research proposals, • Awareness of variations in research methodologies, and • The creation of literature reviews.
The topic would also ensure students are thinking about their thesis, and provide them with a starting point for their further research, through the submission of a literature review and annotated bibliography relating to their thesis.
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HIST7055 Historical PracticeDr Andrekos Varnava
Units: 4.5 unitsClass Contact: 1 seminar per week
Historical Practice is designed to enable History honours students to reflect critically upon the practice of History. Students will be expected to learn 1) how historians have used theories (learned in HIST7006) to produce historical works of all kinds; 2) how and why historians use different methodologies; and 3) how they can apply these understandings to their own research, writing and oral communication of history. Students will be exposed to sessions on the how Flinders historians have used theories and methods in producing historical works, while also attending the Flinders History Seminar Series to see how nationally and internationally renowned historians do so as well. This topic is designed to bring together what has been learned in the previous two coursework topics, providing a holistic understanding of the various mechanics of producing and practicing History.
INTR7002 Debating International Relations Associate Professor Anthony Langlois
Units: 9 unitsClass Contact: 1 seminar per week
This topic is the core mandatory topic for honours in International Relations. It examines the key theoretical debates within International Relations and applies them to contemporary and historical issues within global politics. The topic will range across theoretical paradigms in the discipline, and focus these on specific issues, contemporary and historical, within the field of International Relations. The topic will serve to integrate the learning experience at the honours level, serving as the intellectual, educational and social hub for the honours year.
INTR7017 From Topic to Thesis: Honours WorkshopDr Tanya Lyons
Units: 4.5 unitsClass Contact: 1 seminar per week
The objective of this course is to help honours students turn their ideas for a thesis into a viable argument. It introduces skills necessary for successful thesis writing - defining a research problem, identifying and evaluating evidence, reading critically and imaginatively, and writing a dissertation - and provides students an opportunity to develop these skills. The topic consists of intensive interactive workshops in which students can develop a peer group experience of the honours program in International Relations, presenting their work for constructive criticism and essential feedback as it moves from topic to thesis.
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INTR7018 Advanced Research in History and International RelationsDr Catherine Kevin
(this topic will be co-taught with HIST7054 Advanced Historical Research)
Units: 4.5 unitsClass Contact: 1 seminar per week
This topic provides an introduction to the honours program, and the expectations of higher degree academic research. It consists of interactive workshops designed to provide a working knowledge of:
• Library research and information and retrieval and management,• The formulation and refinement of research proposals,• Awareness of variations in research methodologies, and• The creation of literature reviews.
The topic would also ensure students are thinking about their thesis, and provide them with a starting point for their further research, through the submission of a literature review and annotated bibliography relating to their thesis.
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HONOURS THESIS1. Enrolment
You will need to enrol in the following 4 topics for your thesis component. Each topic is worth 4.5 units.
Semester 1: HIST 7001A or INTR7015A Semester 2: HIST 7001B, C & D or INTR7015B, C & D
The thesis, due to be submitted on 30 October 2017, is the most extended and intensive piece of work in the honours program. Its purpose is to develop your skills in research and critical analysis, and in the presentation of a sustained piece of an argument. The thesis may be written on almost any subject of interest in which there are sufficient and accessible source materials, providing a supervisor can be found in the School of History and International Relations. Many different kinds of theses are possible.
Ultimately the choice about a topic for research is yours. However, it is important to begin thinking about possible thesis topics and possible supervisors well in advance. You are encouraged to select a topic for research and arrange with a member of staff to supervise it before the end of the year previous to enrolment. Identify your research interests and talk to your potential supervisor as soon as you can, about a workable topic. Remember that staff often take recreational or research leave in January.
2. Supervision
During the year you will need to see your supervisor regularly, generally for about an hour a fortnight or thereabouts. You will find that supervision arrangements do vary from student to student, and at different times of the year, depending on you and your supervisor’s workload. Remember that you can always ring or email if you find yourself getting out of touch.
3. Length and Weightings of the Thesis Component
The thesis component will be a 15,000 - 18,000 word thesis worth 18 units, or 50% of a full-time load.
4. History Honours Thesis presentations (as per HIST7054)
All History honours students are expected to attend History seminars, held at 11:15am on Friday each week during term time. A timetable can be found on the School of History and International Relations website: http://www.flinders.edu.au/sabs/shir/home.cfm. At these seminars a wide range of research is presented by international and interstate visitors, graduate students and staff. Honours students present a short work-in-progress paper on their thesis during May as part of HIST7054 for helpful comments by participants at the seminar. The work-in-progress program aims to help students sort out some of their research problems, sharpen their analytical ability, and broaden their historical perspective.
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Note that all School of History and International Relations students doing honours are strongly encouraged to attend these seminars.
Work-in-progress seminar
With regard to the work-in-progress seminars, each student should speak, preferably to a written text, for no more than ten to fifteen minutes, answering the following questions:
What is your thesis topic?This needs to be a single line statement, clearly announcing the central question you are exploring and establishing the scope of your thesis.
How do you justify addressing this question?Why have you chosen this topic? Summarise the existing literature on the subject, where will your work fit in?
How do you propose to go about answering this question?This should set out the sources and method you propose to use. What is your (tentatively) constructing your argument? Proposed chapter headings may help here.
What problems have you confronted, or do you anticipate?Be frank here about problems of definition of subject, sources and evidence. Considerable help from the audience often comes at this point.
There will then be time for discussion of about ten to fifteen minutes after each student’s presentation.
Students are welcome to prepare a one-page handout (can be 2 pages back to back) which may state the question, list major sources, propose chapter divisions, etc. Bring approximately 30 copies to the seminar for distribution.
5. Examiners
There will be two examiners in the first instance - one external and one from the School. Examiners will be chosen by the Honours Convenor in consultation with the supervisor. Where there is a clear agreement over the grade, and a discrepancy of a mark no greater than 10%, the results will be averaged. Where there is a difference of grade or a discrepancy of 10% or more, the Honours Convenor will engage with the two examiners, and if the matter remains unresolved, will appoint a third reviewer.
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HOW HONOURS WORK IS GRADED
The final grade in a topic or the thesis will be awarded thus:
Honours First Class H1 (85-100%)(used to reflect outstanding scholarship)
Honours Second Class Division A H2A (75-84%)(used to reflect a high level of scholarship)
Honours Second Class Division B H2B (65-74%)(used to reflect a substantial level of scholarship)
Honours Third Class H3 (50-64%)(used to reflect a satisfactory level of scholarship)
Fail F (<50%)(used to reflect an unsatisfactory level of scholarship)
The class of an honours result is worked out using one of the following formulae:
First ClassAn overall average of 85% or more
Second Class Division AAn overall average of between 75% and 84% inclusive
Second Class Division BAn overall average between 65% and 74% inclusive
Third ClassAn overall average between 50% and 64% inclusive
FailAn overall average of less than 50%
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HONOURS THESIS SUPERVISORS
THESIS SUPERVISORS
For supervisor areas of interest please see http://www.flinders.edu.au/sabs/shir/about-us/our-people_home.cfm
Contact supervisors for 2017 availability.
HISTORY
Professor Don DeBats 8201 2358 [email protected]
Associate Professor Matt Fitzpatrick
8201 2125 [email protected]
Dr Prudence Flowers 8201 7911 [email protected]
Dr Carol Fort 8201 2849 [email protected]
Dr Jane Haggis 8201 2623 [email protected]
Dr Catherine Kevin 8201 5553 [email protected]
Professor Peter Monteath 8201 5568 [email protected]
Professor Melanie Oppenheimer
8201 2322 [email protected]
Dr Andrekos Varnava (Honours Convenor)
8201 2423 [email protected]
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INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Associate Professor Michael Barr
8201 2388 [email protected]
Professor Don DeBats 8201 2358 [email protected]
Dr Prudence Flowers 8201 7911 [email protected]
Dr Jane Haggis 8201 2623 [email protected]
Dr Maryanne Kelton 8201 5869 [email protected]
Associate Professor Anthony Langlois
8201 5595 [email protected]
Dr Tanya Lyons 8201 3588 [email protected]
Professor Susanne Schech 8201 2489 [email protected]
Dr Priyambudi Sulistiyanto 8201 7723 [email protected]
Dr Michael Sullivan 8201 2749 [email protected]
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THESIS PRESENTATION REQUIREMENTS - CHECKLISTThe requirements for presenting an honours thesis are as follows:
Title page – including title, your name, date of submission, the name of the Faculty and the following at the base of the page: ‘A thesis submitted to Flinders University as partial fulfilment for the degree of Bachelor of Arts (Honours)/ Bachelor of International Studies (Honours)/Bachelor of International Relations (Honours)’.
Statement of Originality page – the following words typed and signed and dated below by the student: ‘This work has not previously been submitted for a degree or diploma in any university. To the best of my knowledge and belief, the thesis contains no material previously published or written by another person except where due reference is made in the thesis itself.’
Acknowledgements page (optional) – but you may mention all those who stuck by you.
Contents page – beginning with the abstract, list the components of the thesis – introduction, chapters, conclusion, references, appendices, bibliography etc. – in order, tabulated with page numbers.
A list of illustrations (where relevant)
Abstract page – A ten to fifteen line paragraph summing up the thesis.
Printing & Binding – the thesis should be bound (the School of History and International Relations recommends hard cover, but the rules do not require an elaborate binding) with a 4cm left-hand margin to allow for binding, and a 2cm right-hand margin. The author’s name should be on the spine or the front cover. 12 point Times New Roman or similar serif font should be used, and the text should be double spaced. The thesis should be without spelling errors and well-formatted to avoid single lines of text left stranded on another page. A recommended dictionary is the Macquarie Dictionary.
Referencing – thesis referencing should use a recognised referencing style and most importantly must be consistent throughout the thesis.
Two (2) copies of the bound thesis must be submitted by the due date. A copy is sent to each examiner. Once they have been returned from the examiner one copy will be kept for the library after examination and one copy will be returned to the student.
You are also required to submit an electronic version (PDF format) of your thesis to the School of History and International Relations. Please email the electronic copy to [email protected]
Refer to the Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences honours information for further details. http://www.flinders.edu.au/sabs/repository-files/asa/Accepted%20into%20Honours.pdf
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STEP-BY-STEP COUNTDOWN TO SUBMISSION OF THESIS – 30 OCTOBER 2017
Although you will have been submitting draft chapters to your supervisor for comments during the year, he or she will require a complete, near-to-final draft during the first week of September. A good, clean draft will speed up the process and allow the supervisor to easily read and comment on the entire thesis. This complete draft should include your title page, an abstract, table of contents, list of illustrations (where necessary), thesis text, bibliography and any appendices.
Your supervisor will probably offer substantial comments on this draft and will return it to you for adjustments. This leaves you about a month for working up a final text, which your supervisor will wish to see. Your supervisor may suggest a few more minor adjustments to this final text. When it is returned to you, you will have only a limited time until submission, during which time you will need to have the thesis copied and bound.
Remember that this timetable is for guidance only. Your supervisor might have other commitments including the supervision of other theses. He or she may ask for your final draft, and/or your final text, a little earlier than this. You will be able discuss your personal timetable with your supervisor.
How might you proceed from the final printed manuscript to submission on 30 October?Assuming that your supervisor has commented on your revised text and returned it to you by mid-October, you should:1. where necessary, make adjustments and produce the final printed copy for
submission 2. proof-read the copy with great care, more than once, and preferably by someone
else as well 3. double-check your footnotes, bibliography, tables, and any appendices and, where
relevant, organise your illustrations4. have produced a table of contents, an acknowledgments page, and a title page which
uses the term Faculty of Social & Behavioural Sciences 5. allocate at least a week to cover both the production of multiple copies and the
binding. Remember that two copies are required to be submitted but you may wish to make at least four (one for your supervisor, and one for you).
The following program is suggested as a reasonable timetable for action, given that the supervisor may require up to a week to read both the final draft and the final text.
Submission of full draft to supervisor early SeptRevisions and production of final text mid Sept-early OctSubmission of final text to your supervisor early OctAdjustments to and production of final copy by 26 OctSubmission of pdf to Honours Convenor and two bound copies to School Office 30 Oct
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THE HONOURS YEAR: SOME NOTES AND HINTS
Make sure that you begin thinking about and refining your thesis early. Throughout Semester 1, you should be doing background reading, making notes, consolidating your specific topic, writing early drafts of your introductory chapter. Writing helps you to get your thoughts organised and in a concrete form, and if you can show some early writing to your supervisor, it will allow him or her to give you some guidance before you go too far along the wrong path.
Ensure that from the beginning, you tap into the relevant literature in the area you are interested in researching. It is extremely important that you have read widely and show evidence of your familiarity with the research area. Journal articles are very important, both the latest and the classics from earlier years. Use the databases in the library to access journal articles, and read the reference list of all articles and books you read (especially the latest ones) for other important references to chase up. Make use of inter-library loan services for books not available at Flinders, or go to another university such as Adelaide or University of South Australia to use their library.
Read journal articles in your area of interest or which use similar research methods to see how they are structured and the style of writing used.
You may wish to read other honours theses to see how they were tackled. You can go to the Library and ask the Librarian where the honours theses are kept. Looking at a range of these will give you some ideas about what to do, and also give you some idea of standards. Please be careful with these - treat them as you would have someone treat your own work.
Make sure that you give your Supervisor a draft of your thesis that is as complete as possible well before submission time, so that you and your Supervisor can go over any problems with plenty of time for you to polish your final version for submission for examination. Remember the more time you allow to re-draft the thesis, the better it will be.
Do not set your sights too high or too low: be realistic about the size of your topic, your own capabilities and what your undergraduate training has prepared you for, your time constraints, and your commitment. The fact that you have been invited to do the honours year means that you are a good capable student. However, being a 'good honours student' requires more dedication, perseverance and above all, self-discipline, than being a good undergraduate student. The standards required of your written work, both in your honours essays and your thesis, are higher than those you were used to in your undergraduate years. Be prepared for this; do not expect good marks without hard work, careful preparation and application. Last minute efforts may have worked in your undergraduate days, but they are not appropriate for the honours year.
The relationship with your Supervisor is different from that of the undergraduate lecturer/student. It is a one-to-one relationship, which relies upon input from both sides. Your Supervisor will be available to guide you, to read your work, to make suggestions and sometimes to correct. However, they cannot write your thesis for you, and they cannot make a good honours student
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out of someone who does not do the work or have the motivation and self-discipline. They are not there to spoon-feed you, but they will hold your hand on occasion!
Copying procedures for multiple copies:
o The School Office is available to discuss the various copying procedures with any student who needs assistance. However, the following information may be helpful when deciding the best and most economical method of presenting your thesis.
o Flinders Press offers a high quality copying service, producing laser-quality prints. If you intend to include diagrams, photographs, etc., it is advisable to consult staff at Flinders Press before you take your thesis to them for copying. Robert Breen is the contact person at Flinders Press - his telephone number is 8201 3150; email [email protected]. Allow 2-3 days for printing.
Binding:
o The School recommends hard cover but the rules do not require an elaborate binding. Several very inexpensive methods are consistent with the stated requirement, including ones which students may carry out for themselves. Samples of acceptable binding can be inspected in the Librarian's Office. The Honours Convenor and/or the School Office staff may have up-to-date information about binders.
o Allow several days for binding. Remember that honours students from other disciplines both here, and at other universities, will also be seeking last-minute binding so don't cut it too fine. Remember that you must submit two copies for examination. It is usually considered courteous to give one to your supervisor and remember to have one done for yourself. Thus, it is common to have four copies bound but add to those any that you will require for family and/or friends. It is wise to contact your chosen bindery some weeks before you finish, to ensure they are not overloaded with work, etc. Don't leave anything to chance.
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LIBRARY COPIES OF HISTORY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS HONOURS THESES
The following conditions of access shall apply:
1. The first copy shall not be available for loan.2. Requests from an author to restrict access to a thesis will be considered only on the
grounds that a thesis contains confidential material or that it was a condition imposed by the owner of private records and material used by the author. Such requests will be dealt with by the Dean of School.
3. Academic staff and students of the University may consult any thesis without prior consent of the author unless a total restriction has been placed on it.
4. For three years after the deposit of a thesis, other readers must obtain the consent of the author or the Dean of School or the Librarian before consulting a thesis.
5. For three years after the deposit of a thesis, no copy may be made of the thesis or part of it without prior consent of the author.
6. Every person consulting a thesis is required to sign a statement acknowledging that he/she has been given access to the thesis for consultation only and that no part will be published or paraphrased without the prior consent of the author and that the author's literary rights will be respected.
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GENERAL REMARKS ON STYLE AND REFERINCING CONVENTION
Consult your supervisor about style and referencing convention. Set out below is a set of consistent and useful guidelines.
Make sure you are consistent with all your usage.
Thesis style guide:
See binding requirements at p. 21 of this handbook.
Please place footnotes at bottom of each page and print in 10 point in single line spacing. Superscript footnote numbers in the text in 8 point.
Appendices should be clearly labelled and referred to in the table of contents page.
Don’t use op cit and loc cit. Refer to footnoting conventions, below, for second and subsequent footnote references.
Ibid may be used but not if the previous footnote has more than one reference. Only use ibid if the reference is exactly as given in the footnote above, with the exception of the page no. e.g. ibid, 60.
Use italics rather than underlining of titles.
In the text type per cent in full. Use % only in tables.
Numbers under 0-9 should be written: i.e. nine, but 13; 15 per cent; six women; 186 sports fans. Place a comma or a space in numbers over 1,000. i.e. - 7,642 (7 642); 12,201 (12 201); 156,987 (156 987).
Don’t use an apostrophe for dates. Use 1920s, 1760s, 1930s. Remember that 1900s refers to 1901-10, not the twentieth century.
Single quotes (‘) should be used except for quotations within quotations, e.g. ‘she described the situation as “totally unworkable” ’.
Remember to indent quotes which are longer than three lines in print. Indented quotations do not have quotes at the beginning or end, and therefore single quotes are used for quotations within them, e.g.
she described the situation as ‘totally unworkable’
In direct quotations any omission, even a single word, should be indicated by three dots. (There is no need to start or end such quotations with such elision marks). Any word which you insert (this is sometimes necessary to show what the quotation is about) should be put in square brackets.
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Cite original documents correctly. Ask your supervisor or find a respected publication which uses similar documents.
No need to use ‘p’ for page. Just use the page number, as below.
Always place a full stop at the end of a reference.
Avoid the Harvard referencing method. Use footnotes (footnote numbers look better if superscripted), and cite sources as follows:
Footnoting Requirements
1. First footnote reference to a work: author, full title, publisher, place of publication, date of publication, page cited. The school’s preferred method is:
Jane Rendall, Women in an Industrializing Society: England 1750-1880, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1990, 40.
D. Aldcroft, 'The Railway Age', in Anne Digby, Charles Feinstein and David Jenkins (eds), New Directions in Economic and Social History, vol II, Macmillan, London, 1992, 16.
[Note: (eds) plural, with no full stop (ed.) singular, with a full stop] You may also use et al if you wish if there are more than three authors: eg
Anne Digby, et al, New Directions in Economic and Social History, vol 11, Macmillan, London, 1992, 16.
M. Ashley, 'Love and Marriage in seventeenth century England', History Today, vol VIII, 1958, 667-75. (It is a general principle to use Roman numerals only when the journal cited uses same - most modern journals don't use Roman.)
2. Subsequent references to the same work: author, short title, page.
e.g., for refs above, consecutively:
Rendall, Women in an Industrializing Society, 18.
Aldcroft, ‘The Railway Age’, 17.
Ashley, ‘Love and marriage’, 670.
Do not use an author's name followed by a page number. This can confuse the reader, especially where several books/articles by the same author appear in the thesis. Always use a short title but be consistent.
Note: Aldcroft would go in the bibliography under Aldcroft, not Digby, with the full reference as given in the first reference to his article. If you had used more than one article from Digby's volume of collected essays, you would, of course, place each article in full, in its correct alphabetical position in the bibliography according to the name of the writer of the chapter, not the editor -- in some cases Digby's volume might be mentioned several times in this way.3. Citing primary sources you have used in the text
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Your supervisor will advise on the citing of original sources in your field. Some general examples might include:
Newspapers (e.g. a footnote reference might read Advertiser 1 February 1947, 26.)
Census returns Hansard
Bibliography
Your bibliography should be separated into at least two sections.
1. Primary Sources: Your supervisor will advise but it is usual to denote primary sources into sections including newspapers, parliamentary papers, manuscript sources, etc.
2. Secondary Sources: Articles, books and other scholarship (such as theses) are, as in essays, not separated but cited alphabetically, as follows:
Aldcroft, D., ‘The Railway Age’, in Anne Digby, Charles Feinstein and David Jenkins (eds), New Directions in Economic and Social History, vol II, Macmillan, London, 1992.
Paul, Kathleen, ‘The politics of citizenship in post-war Britain’, Contemporary Record, vol 6, no 3, Winter 1992, 452-73
Rendall, Jane, Women in an Industrializing Society: England 1750-1880, Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1990.
Sutherland, Gillian, ‘Education’, in FML Thompson (ed.), The Cambridge Social History Of Britain 1750-1950, vol 3, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1993.
Internet Resources
When you use information from the World Wide Web you need to give the address that you obtained the information from, and you must include the date the information was put on there. If the date is missing, use n.d.
For Example
Web SiteKantner, John, “Chetro Ketl Great Kiva.” N.d.
http://www.sscf.uscb.edu/anth/projects/great.kiva/index.html (12 May 1997)
Gopher Site“Basic Bibliography on How to Do Oral History.” 1995
gopher://gopher.ucsc.edu:/bib/ (11 May 1997).
FTP Site“Combat Casualties.” 27 January 1993, ftp
ftp.msstate.edu/docs/history/USA/Vietnam/ (3 May 1997).
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E-Mail MessageDivine, Lisa.. <[email protected]> “Re: Your Question About New Braunfels.” 1 May
1997. Personal e-mail (2 May 1997)
Listserve MessageVining, Albert. [email protected] “Lakota Diaspora after 1862.” 15 April 1997. H-ETHNIC@h-
net.msu.edu (23 April 1997)
Newsgroup MessageGustafson, John. [email protected] “Effects of New Technologies on Scientific Communication.”
28 May 1997. <soc.history.science> (30 May 1997)
From: Jules R Benjamin, A Student’s Guide to History (7th ed) Boston, 1998, pp. 192-3.
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STUDENT PRIZES
The James Millar Main Prizes in History
These prizes were funded by income from the James Millar Main Memorial Fund which was established by Council in September 1984 with donations from colleagues, students and friends to commemorate the name of James Millar Main, Reader in History and a member of the History staff from 1966 to 1984. The following rules shall apply to the prizes:
The James Millar Main Prizes in History shall be awarded annually by the Faculty Education Committee of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.
One prize shall be awarded to the best student completing honours in history. The value of this prize shall be $250.
Recipients of Jim Main Prize for the most outstanding History Honours Student
1986 Philippa Fletcher1987 Leonie Randall1988 Not awarded1989 Daryl Adair1990 Julie-Ann Ellis1991 Not awarded1992 Christopher McLean1993 Robert Sharp1994 Carol Putland1995 Penelope Gregory1996 Chiew-Lee Khut1997 Robert Pilgrim / Michael Foster1998 Sally Bennett / Peter Birt / Susie van der Sluys1999 Raquel Piles / Ruth Donovan2000 Peter Provis2001 James Anderson2002 Karen Agutter / Emma Barritt2003 Evan Smith2004 Effie Karageorgos2005 Not awarded2006 Prudence Mann2007 Christine Lockwood2008 Dene Mann2009 Amanda Norman 2010 Anne Matters2011 Darryl Burrowes2012 Chloe Ward2013 Anthony Nugent2014 Ella Stewart-Peters2015 Timothy Mansueto / Brodie Nugent
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The Bill Brugger Prize
This prize was funded in 1999 by donations from colleagues, students and friends for the purpose of honouring the late Professor Bill Brugger and recognising his outstanding contribution since 1972 to the Discipline of Political Theory and Institutions, the Department of Politics and the School of Political and International Studies.
The Bill Brugger Prize may be awarded annually by the Faculty Education Committee of the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences.
The prize will be awarded to the best student completing honours in International Relations, or honours in Politics, or honours in Public Policy.
The value of the prize shall be $500 (where more than one person meets the above criteria the prize shall be shared)
Recipients of the Bill Brugger Prize
1999 Holli Thomas 2000 Philip Clark 2001 David Robinson 2002 Deanna Gross 2003 Robyn Sach 2004 Aaron Jackson 2005 Liam Von Thien 2006 Jed Odermatt 2007 Geordan Graetz 2008 Matthew Russell 2009 Dominic Berger 2010 Pasquale Forgione 2011 Eddie Eyers 2012 Adele Lausberg 2013 Zachary Rogers 2014 Adam Ridley2015 Leigh Hill / Sian Troath
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