Bachelor of Arts

Become skilled in analysing and explaining ideas and their consequences.

Are you passionate about understanding what connects and disrupts communities, the nation, and the world? Do you appreciate the power of narratives in the past and present that shape the future? Forge global citizenship and a meaningful career path by choosing from a range of major and minor study areas in the arts, humanities and languages.

This degree program develops your love of reading, evaluating and writing into career-based skills for critiquing, curating, exhibiting, communicating and shaping knowledge about the place of people in the world. Explore ideas, theories and records of human interaction and more-than-human relationships with nature and artificial intelligence. Gain advanced skills in history, literature, language, politics, society and culture.

Course overview

Your core arts courses include practice-based projects and optional internships that further develop skills across digital literacy, problem-solving, innovative thinking and work-readiness.

Additionally, you can focus your studies through optional learning pathways:

• Entrepreneurial stream - work readiness and specified WIL courses
• Online stream - online and part-time study
• Global stream - languages acquisition, global and cultural awareness, international mobility, ie. student exchange
• Innovator stream - digital learning and topics of inquiry.

Admission to our undergraduate degree programs usually requires successful completion of a senior secondary school qualification similar to the Higher School Certificate (HSC), the highest educational award in New South Wales schools.

Applicants who do not speak English as a first language must demonstrate that they meet the University's English proficiency requirement. Further information regarding English language proficiency requirements can be found at the English Language Proficiency for Admission Policy.

In the application portal, you can enter the program you wish to study and upload relevant documents needed as part of your application. It is recommended you submit your application a minimum of 12 weeks before your intended semester of trimester start date.

You will enjoy flexible pathways, develop in-demand skills and gain broad career outcomes.

Employment options for Bachelor of Arts graduates are varied. Employability will be strengthened by your chosen areas of specialisation.

Professional outcomes

• Local, state and commonwealth public service
• Non-government organisations
• Higher education
• Museums, libraries and archives
• Arts and cultural organisations