Bachelor of Arts

Enrich your mind, diversify your skills and safeguard your future with our work-ready arts degree.

Forge your own path by choosing from 20 majors and minors and hundreds of courses in the arts and humanities. If you're hungry for knowledge, an arts degree will allow you to turn your interests into a meaningful career.

Study a range of courses to better understand and appreciate the world around you, and what it means to be human. Explore ideas, theories and records of the human experience. Learn about society, culture, history, language, media, politics and more.

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.

Eligibility for admission to this program is based on applicants meeting the minimum selection rank, or satisfying the requirements for an approved admission scheme.

The University of Newcastle accepts a range of qualifications to determine eligibility for admission. These include, but are not limited to, Australian or overseas senior secondary qualifications (such as the HSC), prior tertiary studies, prior TAFE/VET studies, and completed enabling programs.

For further information on the pathways that are available to you, please refer to:

• Domestic Applicants
• International Applicants

Overall minimum: 6

Sub test minimum: 6

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