Study the Bachelor of Arts to equip yourself with a multidisciplinary education in a range of humanities and social sciences disciplines. Discover unlimited choices in exploring your passion and interests.

The Bachelor of Arts provides you with a varied and multidisciplinary education, as well as the opportunity to gain knowledge in a range of humanities and social sciences disciplines.

You will experience a variety of perspectives, methodologies and learning styles and explore disciplines that study the way humans recognise, record and debate human practices, meanings and values. This will aid you in developing a contemporary understanding of both the human condition and how society operates.

You will benefit from the flexibility to structure your course to suit your career aspirations and interests with a wide variety of majors and minors to choose from.

Course Structure:
To complete this program, you must fulfill 24 units, comprising four core units, two eight-unit majors, and one four-unit minor.

Majors/Minors:
Tailor your education to align with your career aspirations. The following clusters offer guidance on selecting major and minor combinations:

Teaching:
The Bachelor of Arts, when followed by the Master of Teaching (Secondary), is an ideal pathway for those aspiring to become secondary school educators. This combination allows you to cultivate deep and comprehensive subject knowledge crucial for your teaching career, with both programs attainable within 4.5 years of full-time study.

Storytelling, Media, and Public Relations:
Options such as creative writing, media, journalism, and public relations equip you with versatile and relevant communication skills applicable across various industries.

Geography and Environmental Management:
Environmental management and geography majors provide a solid foundation for diverse career paths, including environmental planning, policy development, and town planning.

Creative Arts:
Visual arts and theatre studies majors enable you to nurture your creative abilities while integrating professional practices, ensuring you graduate with valuable skills applicable to careers in the creative arts sector.

History:
Studying history enhances your analytical, contextualization, and synthesis skills, opening doors to employment opportunities in libraries, museums, and galleries.

Unit Information:
For details on the units available within this course, please refer to the Handbook and select the "Course Structure" tab.

Credit Transfer Information:
If you have completed relevant studies prior to enrolling in this course, you may qualify for credit transfer eligibility.

The skills and knowledge that you gain within the Bachelor of Arts are transferrable across a wide range of industries and professions. You will gain life-long skills in creative thinking, critical reading, critical thinking, effective writing and communication skills, developing clear and cogent arguments, research, data analysis, understanding intercultural relationships, social justice, cultural heritage and environmental planning. These skills are regarded highly by those who recruit university graduates for government departments and various large companies and are beneficial to roles across a range of businesses and industries.

Explore endless career possibilities such as roles within government agencies, administration, publishing houses, environmental planning and management, media, journalism, libraries, museums, galleries, not-for-profit organisations, private companies, teaching, town councils, disability services, community sector organisations, youth workers and universities.

A secondary qualification (Year 11 and 12, or equivalent)

An International English Language Testing System (IELTS Academic) overall band score of at least 6.0 overall with a minimum 5.5 in each subset; or

Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL) - Requires 550 or better overall and minimum TWE score of 4.5 (Paper Based Test), or 75 or better overall and no score less than 17 (Internet Based Test); or

Pearson Test of English Academic (PTE Academic) - Requires an overall score of 54 with no sub-score less than 46; or

An Occupational English Test with Grades A or B only in each of the four components.