Combine your passion for the arts with a desire to inspire the generations of tomorrow, with a Bachelor of Arts/Master of Teaching (Secondary) at Deakin. Our school-based learning programs and teaching practicums ensure you’re ready to teach today and into the future. 

Are you ready to join Australia’s largest profession? 

Fast-track your studies and graduate with a postgraduate teaching degree in just four years. You’ll gain hands-on teaching experience and will be supported in all aspects of professional experience. Plus, you’ll have ongoing communication with staff to ensure that you have the best opportunity to develop as a teacher.

Start with Deakin’s Bachelor of Arts, allowing you to design your studies around your interests, creating unique combinations of majors and minors to customise your learning. While studying your undergraduate degree, you’ll also be building your foundation knowledge that will take you into your postgraduate studies. Choose from relevant arts disciplines that will form your teaching specialisations, including:

• anthropology
• Arabic, Chinese, Indonesian or Spanish
• children’s literature
• dance
• drama
• history
• media studies
• philosophy
• politics and policy studies or sociology
• visual arts or photography.

During your postgraduate studies, Deakin’s Professional Experience Program is a key part of your course, ensuring you have the practical skills needed from day one of your teaching career. Our professional experience team works with more than 1400 schools across Australia, arranging more than 7000 placements per year to develop professional readiness for success in the education sector.

You’ll also have the opportunity to add a global perspective to your degree by studying abroad. Head to the US to study history, or capture images of renowned landmarks while studying photography in the Czech Republic.

Before beginning your Master of Teaching (Secondary), prospective education students need to successfully complete the CASPer test – an online, video scenario-based test that lets you demonstrate your suitability for a teaching career.

Teaching courses at Deakin lead to a career that can make a profound and lasting contribution to the future by positively educating and influencing the lives of students. Teaching is the largest profession in Australia, with more than 200,000 teachers working across 10,000 schools, teaching more than three million students. It’s a rewarding career that offers creativity, flexibility and opportunity.

Graduates of the Bachelor of Arts/Master of Teaching (Secondary) are qualified to teach in secondary schools within Victoria, in the private, independent, or public education sectors.

Your specialisations and advanced knowledge will also open doors to roles in:

• community services
• government agencies
• not-for-profit organisations.