理学学士（高级）（荣誉学位）-科学的历史和哲学

科学史和科学哲学（HPS）研究科学的本质，科学的发展方式以及科学如何在当今社会中占据如此中心的地位。HPS是一个令人兴奋的研究领域，您将被激发去批判性和创造性地思考科学领域的发展及其对社会的影响。它将科学置于其历史和社会环境中，并研究科学与其他形式的知识有何不同。学习历史和科学哲学（HPS）四年级荣誉可导致许多不同的职业道路，例如科学政策，科学教育，科学新闻学和科学写作。特别是，它为学术职业提供了极好的准备。在HPS荣誉课程中，您可以期望与一个活跃且支持部门的学术主管紧密合作，进行基于研究的重大项目。您将
Honours is a widely recognised and highly regarded additional year of undergraduate study available to you after you complete your undergraduate course. It's a unique opportunity for you to explore your research potential and put the theory from your undergraduate studies into practice. An honours qualification is not only well regarded in academia, but also in industry where further, concentrated studies in a specialised area is highly sought after. Extend your knowledge of your undergraduate degree with a stand-alone Honours year in your subject area expertise. This course is available to students who have already completed their studies in this study area. Depending on your interests and the availability of honours projects, you might wish to undertake honours in anatomy, biochemistry, biology (genetics), cell pathology, histology and embryology, immunology, infectious diseases, microbiology, pharmacology or physiology. This course is also offered at the Westmead precinct. The Faculty of Science has an outstanding reputation for the quality of its postgraduate research programs across a wide range of science disciplines. With significant levels of funding from various research councils and bodies, and the provision of major research facilities, the Faculty is committed to providing leading education and research training to its students. There are a range of research programs available, depending on which stage you are at in your academic career. Whether at the doctoral or masters level, you undertake self-directed, supervised research in your specialised area of science, and produce a thesis considered to be a substantially original contribution to the subject concerned. The Honours year in Science provides a research training pathway to our higher research degrees, the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) and Master of Science (MSc). The postgraduate research programs offered by the Faculty attract a large number of domestic and international students each year.