121-460 Environmental Studies Honours Thesis

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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.

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Original research on an approved research problem.

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