Studying UWA's Bachelor of Arts lets you cultivate your passions while developing the transferable skills that employers need and an Arts degree provides.

Transferable skills are sometimes referred to as 'people skills' because they're about personal attributes that are essential in every industry. Importantly, these skills can never be automated, ensuring you’ll be ready and well equipped for work.

Work and Employment Relations

In this major you’ll study how work is organised, the way employees are managed, the role of unions, how cooperation and negotiation can be developed, and how conflict can emerge and be managed. The nature of employment relations in both Australia and other countries is examined using institutional and sociological perspectives.

This major is taught through a combination of lectures, tutorials, workshops and other in-class activities. At the UWA Business School, you’ll study work and employment relations with renowned lecturers and professors who are at the leading edge of research and practice in Australia and internationally, ensuring the knowledge you develop through this course will set you apart as a graduate in this field.

The Work and Employment Relations major is beneficial for those aspiring to work in a management position in the private or government sector, for a union, or for those wishing to become involved in industrial law.