Bachelor of Arts

Enrich your mind, diversify your skills and safeguard your future with our new work-ready arts degree at the University of Newcastle.

Forge your own path by choosing from

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 while learning 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.

Learning streams

In addition to choosing majors, minors and structured program pathways, 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

As a Bachelor of Arts student, you will enjoy flexible pathways, develop in-demand skills1 and gain broad career outcomes.

Employment options for BA graduates are many and varied, with employability strengthened further by your chosen areas of specialisation. Primary career outcomes include:

• Local, state and commonwealth public service
• Non-government organisations
• Higher education
• Media and communications
• Arts and cultural organisation

Over 85% of recent Humanities graduates in Australia work full-time, casual or part-time. Specific Arts study areas also enjoyed similar employment outcomes: Languages and Psychology (84%), and Social Sciences (81%)2. Additionally, there are also a range of opportunities for graduates to complete further study or research.