Griffith University Bachelor of Arts graduates with an appropriate GPA may undertake an additional year of study in the Honours program, which can qualify them for highly skilled professional work and/or further postgraduate studies. The Honours program is designed as an 'end-on' fourth year from a Bachelor of Arts. It provides students with the opportunity to build on the skills and knowledge gained in their undergraduate degree. As an Honours student, you will plan and execute a research dissertation or a creative/professional product with minor dissertation/exegesis. You will be supervised be an experienced academic who will guide your learning. You will be instructed in key research principles and methodologies in the arts. The Bachelor of Arts with Honours degree consists of 80 credit points of assessed student work. This includes 30 credit points of coursework and 50 credit points of supervised research. Your research project will be based on your undergraduate studies and will be selected in consultation with the Program Director. My career opportunities Griffith's Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Arts with Honours will equip you with high-level research skills and flexible, broad-based skills in writing, analysis and synthesis of information, research and policymaking. With these transferable skills, you will be able to shift easily from one occupation or industry to another. Honours graduates will also be prepared for highly skilled professional work or choose to continue their education with a higher degree by research. Arts graduates are employed in a range of roles in education, advertising and marketing, advocacy and lobby groups (NGOs), book and magazine publishing, the media the defence forces, government, human resources, libraries, museums, art galleries, politics, public relations, retail, consultancy and freelancing, tourism, and welfare and community development.