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Bachelor of Advanced Science (Honours)

  • Bachelor (Honours)

Advanced Science is an elite honours degree course offering tailored study in science, technology, and mathematics. It includes access to research groups, industry engagement, and interdisciplinary units, with majors ranging from Agricultural Science to Space and Planetary Science. Students gain practical skills through applied projects and a self-directed honours project.

Key details

Degree Type
Bachelor (Honours)
Duration
4 years full-time
Course Code
BH-ADVSCI, 095949E
Study Mode
In person
Intake Months
Feb, Jul
Domestic Fees
$8,900 per year
International Fees
$40,298 per year / $161,192 total

About this course

Overview

Advanced Science is an academically elite, honours degree course in which you can tailor your study to your interests in science, technology and mathematics.

During your course, you will have access to world-class research groups, work-integrated learning, industry engagement, student-led projects and accelerated learning pathways.

You'll gain core knowledge in your discipline and have a choice of elective units that align with your passions. You'll also benefit from interdisciplinary units that are unique to the course and involve engaging with like-minded, high-achieving peers.

These are the majors that are available:

  • Agricultural Science
  • Chemistry
  • Computing
  • Data Science
  • Earth Sciences
  • Environmental Biology and Ecology
  • Environmental Science
  • Financial Mathematics
  • Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • Marine Science
  • Molecular Genetics
  • Physics
  • Space and Planetary Science

From your second year you'll build your expertise through career-relevant learning opportunities - gaining the practical, transferable skills that employers look for in graduates.

You'll also undertake full-year applied projects embedded in leading research groups or connected with external organisations. And, in your final year, you'll conduct a self-directed honours project that contributes new knowledge to your field.

This course is unique in Western Australia in its multidisciplinary, project-based learning and scientific professional practice involving entrepreneurship, communication and leadership skills. These professional skills are essential in enabling agile and innovative responses to changing industry and employment circumstances.

What you will learn

What you'll learn

  • Demonstrate an advanced knowledge of the nature of science, its methods and processes, and an advanced knowledge in one or more disciplinary areas enabling the ability to contribute new knowledge to a field of study.
  • Critically analyse challenging and multi-faceted problems, address them by applying practical and theoretical tools and critically evaluate findings within the current body of disciplinary knowledge.
  • Access and make judgements on the value of available knowledge using a variety of tools, and incorporate them into the planning, conduct and communication of their own work.
  • Communicate approaches and solutions, ideas and findings to informed professional scientific and industry audiences.
  • Use established and emerging technologies in their chosen discipline and apply them within the context of their profession.
  • Engage in self-driven continuous discipline and professional education and training within their chosen discipline.
  • Participate in the generation and application of science in addressing global problems while recognising that scientific endeavours are required to comply with international ethical and professional standards.
  • Work collaboratively and respectfully with scientists from a range of cultural backgrounds and understand the cultural issues that impact their discipline or profession.
  • Be able to work as an independent scientist and collaboratively within teams either as a professional leader or collaborator using effective problem solving and decision making skills within the professional context of their area of study.

Career pathways

This course equips you with leadership and entrepreneurial skills so that you can contribute to science innovation.

Course structure

Course outline
  • Qualification: Bachelor of Advanced Science (Honours)
  • Duration: This course is four years full-time study or equivalent part-time study with intakes in February and July. July intake: Subject to Course Coordinator approval and mid-year pathway study plan. Course duration may exceed four years due to unit prerequisites. See specific majors for details.
  • Credit: A full-time study load usually consists of 200 credits (approximately eight units) per year, with 100 credits (approximately four units) in each semester.
  • CRICOS: 095949E
  • Location: Curtin Perth
Majors available:
  • Agricultural Science
  • Chemistry
  • Computing
  • Data Science
  • Earth Sciences
  • Environmental Biology and Ecology
  • Environmental Science
  • Financial Mathematics
  • Industrial and Applied Mathematics
  • Marine Science
  • Molecular Genetics
  • Physics
  • Space and Planetary Science

Credit for prior study or work

Finish your course sooner with credit for your previous study or work experience.

How to apply

Please review information on how to apply for the campus of your choice

Graduate outcomes

Graduate satisfaction and employment outcomes for Science & Mathematics courses at Curtin University.
83.3%
Overall satisfaction
80%
Skill scale
75%
Teaching scale
65.5%
Employed full-time