Unisa honours

Typhon987

Typhon987

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Hi guys, I got my degree at UKZN and had a lot of mentoring and guidance from the lecturers. I studied geography and environmental management. I would like to do my honours through UNISA while I work. Does anyone have experience doing their honours at UNISA? More specifically, has anyone studied what I have or similar and did their honours at UNISA? Any advice will be helpful and appreciated. Thanks.
 
muhammadjeewa said:
Hi guys, I got my degree at UKZN and had a lot of mentoring and guidance from the lecturers. I studied geography and environmental management. I would like to do my honours through UNISA while I work. Does anyone have experience doing their honours at UNISA? More specifically, has anyone studied what I have or similar and did their honours at UNISA? Any advice will be helpful and appreciated. Thanks.
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I'm currently doing my M.Sc. through UNISA (while working full time). Are you looking for distance learning advice or specifically for your field?
 
muhammadjeewa said:
@BarOn I'm looking for both actually
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Okay, well, distance learning requires self-discipline. It's not too bad for honours, your courses are still structured and you'll have assignments with due dates. You're able to mark dates on a calender, essentially. As long as you can sit down for a few hours every night of the week and consistently work on your assignments you'll be fine.

The key to succeeding with distance learning is consistency. Work a bit every night (maybe take Friday nights off), don't try to charge through all your work 1 day of the week. That strategy will work for a month or so but you're going to start falling behind at some point. What I liked to do (did an NDP math course at UNISA undergrad), was to have the assignments next to me and then do about 2 of the assignment problems every night, making sure I understood the work covered up to where the concepts were defined for these problems, and not just flicking through the notes for direct solutions to the problems.

It's good that you're interested in doing honours, good luck.
 
At ukzn , at third year basically every subject has a major or assignment. I'm focusing on GIS , Environmental Management and Sustainable development.
 
What field are you most interest in?
Water? Ecology? Air? Human geography?
The three things you mentioned are just tools.

Ok so you really focused on GIS? Or was it just a course? There's a difference.
These days almost every candidate for employment comes with some sort of GIS experience.
It's like Excel.
Any remote sensing?

If you're looking to going into a straight non-technical field in government then the UNISA path will be more than enough.
There's a big gap at Durban municipality for this.
The consultants are now looking at more technically challenging projects and need some very versatile people.
We actually consider compsci graduates sometimes.

Is it possible to do your honours part time through UKZN?
Do you think your current employer would go for that?
 
If the honours degree at Unisa is structured so basically I won't be focusing on one subject. Im focused on GIS, and sustainable development. I'm not working at the moment.
 
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