This degree is an opportunity to interpret human culture and behaviour, from different perspectives and periods, and to understand your own experience, identity and values.

The Bachelor of Arts will equip you with a range of specialised and transferable skills that are highly sought after by employers: creative thinking, respect for multiple perspectives, and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

Opportunities are available to develop language skills in a native-speaking environment with Short Term Overseas Study, cultural or media research overseas, or professional placement opportunities by volunteering in non-government organisations.

Modern workplaces are invariably changing; responding to economic, political and social forces, which means employees need the basic intellectual capacities to adapt to change, understand intercultural differences, thoughtfully challenge assumptions, and think objectively.

Employers depend on people who are effective communicators and decision-makers, with demonstrable skills in critical thinking, problem solving, research and investigation. These abilities are fundamental for all Arts graduates, who have gone onto diverse careers including:

• Advocacy and counselling
• Arts and heritage
• Business
• Communications and public relations
• Education
• Linguistics
• Finance
• Foreign relations and diplomacy
• Healthcare and healthcare ethics

• Historian
• Human resources management
• Information technology
• Interpreter or translator
• Journalism and publishing
• Law
• Manager in private and public enterprises
• Marketing and advertising
• Philosopher 
• Police and armed forces
• Politics and public policy-making
• Psychology
• Public health and welfare
• Researcher
• Social work
• Trade and foreign exchange
• Tourism and travel operator
• Writer