50.0 Associate Professor B. L Finlayson. Admission to fourth year. Double semester Regular meetings with supervisor. The objectives of the fourth-year honours course, in addition to those common to all subjects in the Department of Geography and Environmental Studies are as follows:

• to be familiar with the techniques and concepts involved in the preparation of a review of the literature relating to particular research topics in environmental studies;
• to be able to select a research question and to design a program using the most appropriate techniques to gather the information on which an answer to the question can be developed;
• to be able to analyse data and reach sensible conclusions;
• to be capable of presenting these results in written and oral form so that they are comprehensible to persons who are not experts in the field.

Original research on an approved research problem. A 12000 word thesis.