Information for current honours and masters students

This page will evolve with time so that it contains useful information for current honours students in the School of Earth Sciences. If you are a current honours student and would like to add something to this page, or have a suggestion on what could be added, please contact the honours coordinator.

Here are some useful links:

PEOPLE AND DATES

Deadlines and other dates for this year

List of honours students, projects and supervisors -- coming soon.

Honours talks schedule

COURSEWORK

Instructions for honours students

Instructions for masters students

LITERATURE REVIEW AND THESIS

The literature review/project proposal -- guidelines

An example of a good critical review (this year's format is slightly different but this will give you an idea -- pdf 1Mb)

What constitutes a good thesis?

What constitutes a good scientific talk?

Thesis content

Some tips on how to use MS-Word to format your thesis

LIBRARY

Citation style

General information for honours students

UNIX and FORTRAN

Introduction to Unix computer systems

Some hints on using LaTeX (a word processing package)

Documents explaining how to use Fortran (a programming language)