School of Mathematics and Statistics - Rules for Thesis and Project Courses

For Honours theses see the Honours pages.

For Project courses within Coursework Postgrad programs see the Coursework Postgrad pages.

Project courses MATH3000, MATH3001, MATH3002 are restricted enrolment courses.

Normally the requirements for enrolment are:

student has a Maths WAM exceeding 75,
student has arranged a topic and supervisor,
student can provide good reasons for doing a project instead of a coursework course,
student receives the permission of the Head of School through the Director of Undergraduate Studies.

A project course should involve at least as much effort as a courseswork course of the same units of credit (which the University views as at least 30 hours per unit of credit). It should not be on material covered at the same level by the student in any other course taken by the student (in MathsStats or elsewhere) or as part of a paid Vacation Scholarship. It should also not be significantly the same material as any coursework course available to the student.

Guidelines for the length and style of projects are currently being developed.

The School may give a grade of SY (satisfactory) or FL (fail) for a project course instead of a mark out of 100.

Project course MATH4012 is required in the old program 3986 (Maths and Finance Plan MATHF13986) and allowed in program 3529. It is not available to students in any other program. Consult the Director of Undergraduate Studies if you need or wish to take this course.

Students permitted to take a project course are strongly advised to read the University guidelines on plagiarism and acknowledging sources.