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Bachelor of Arts

Bachelor of Arts

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COURSE DESCRIPTION

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.

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.

Majors

English and Writing

French Studies (Beginner Sequence)

French Studies (Intermediate Sequence)

German

Global Indigenous Studies

History

Human Geography and the Environment

Japanese Studies (Beginner Sequence)

Japanese Studies (Intermediate Sequence)

Linguistics

Performing Arts

Politics and International Relations

Psychology Studies

Screen and Cultural Studies

Sociology and Anthropology

Career opportunities

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

EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION

The University of Newcastle, Australia is a world-class university. Excellence in teaching, research, and the student experience are our focus.

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The University of Newcastle is one of the world’s top 200 universities1, known for making a global impact and top 5 in the world for partnering for a more sustainable future2. 

We embrace technology and best practice to deliver the best possible student experience. Our mission is to help students become life-ready graduates. We do this through practical learning, innovative styles of teaching, internationally recognised study programs and world-class research. 

We are number one in Australia for industry collaboration3, our partnerships help our more than 39,000 students4 to be more employable and start on higher salaries than the Australian average5. 

1 QS World University Rankings 2023
2 Times Higher Education Impact Rankings 2022  
3 Innovation Connections IC Report 2014 - 2020 
4 The University of Newcastle Data Warehouse 2021 
5 QILT Graduates Outcomes Survey 2018 - 2020 
 

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