The honours program in Policy Studies is akin to taking a combined Honours program in the Faculty of Arts. The BA (Policy Studies) consists of the Political Science and Policy Studies majors, which yields a total of 84 units. The additional units needed to complete the 96 units required for combined honours may come from either the economics-related courses noted above or from the three free courses, if they are drawn from the lists of approved courses.

The Fourth Year program consists of a thesis of 15,000 to 17,500 words and courses taken in one or more of the disciplines or programs that are central to the policy studies degree, namely, Political Science, Philosophy, Economics, Economic History, History and Sociology.

The minimum standard for entry to Fourth Year is a credit average. The disciplines in which Fourth Year work is taken may specify a standard of performance above this credit average minimum.

Students contemplating honours should consult the Bachelor of Arts (Policy Studies) Coordinator as early as possible.

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