Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons))

The Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) degree is an academically demanding program. 

The aim of the Bachelor of Arts with Honours (BA(Hons)) is to help students become highly-skilled, versatile, independent thinkers with the research experience, information literacy, communication, and interpersonal skills necessary for an advanced professional career or further academic study at the Masters or Ph.D. level.

1. Admission to the program shall be subject to the approval of the Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Humanities).
2. Every applicant shall have fulfilled one of the following conditions:
   1. have been admitted to the degree of Bachelor of Arts, majoring in the subject or subjects of study proposed with an average grade of at least B+ for the appropriate 300-level papers;
   2. have been admitted with the status of one who is entitled to proceed to the degree;
   3. have a qualification acceptable to the Pro-Vice-Chancellor and produce evidence acceptable to the Pro-Vice-Chancellor of ability to proceed to the degree.
3. A student enrolled for a postgraduate diploma program may not be admitted retrospectively and transfer to an Honours program unless he or she would have been eligible for admission at the commencement of the program and the structure and duration of the postgraduate diploma program are identical to those for the Honours program.

You need to complete credit hours to successfully obtain this degree. Please check detail of study units at https://www.otago.ac.nz/courses/qualifications/bahons.html

You can join one of the following careers:

• Teacher
• Consultant
• Curator
• Graphic Designer
• Writer
• Economist
• Photographer