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Bachelor of Arts

ProviderUniversity of Newcastle
Course code: UAC482010UniversityStudy area: Society and CultureCourse data availableData JSON

Course overview

Are you passionate about understanding what connects and disrupts communities, the nation, and the world? Do you appreciate the power of narratives in the past and present that shape the future? Forge global citizenship and a meaningful career path by choosing from a range of major and minor study areas in the arts, humanities and languages. This degree program develops your love of reading, evaluating and writing into career-based skills for critiquing, curating, exhibiting, communicating and shaping knowledge about the place of people in the world. Explore ideas, theories and records of human interaction and more-than-human relationships with nature and artificial intelligence. Gain advanced skills in history, literature, language, politics, society and culture.

Entry requirements

Review the available standard entry requirements, English requirements and additional notes for this course.

Standard entry

Applicants with recent secondary education

Recommended studies: English Advanced.

For psychology studies major: Mathematics Advanced.

If you have not previously studied one or more of these subjects or have limited knowledge in them, we strongly encourage you to consider enrolling in bridging courses.

NUPrep Bridging provides free academic preparation and support short courses, available both on campus and online, to complete before starting your degree.

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Applicants with higher education study

If you have completed or partially completed higher education studies, your grade point average can be converted into a selection rank for admission into our undergraduate programs.

Applicants with vocational education and training (VET) study

If you completed or partially completed competency-based vocational education and training (such as TAFE, a private Registered Training Provider, or vocational studies undertaken in high school), this can be used to determine your eligibility for admission.

Completion of studies at an AQF Level 4 (Cert IV) or higher Guarantees Entry into many of our undergraduate programs.

Review the Guaranteed Entry Admission Scheme .

Applicants with work and life experience

If you do not have an ATAR (or equivalent) or formal qualification, Newcastle University provides a range of pathways toward your preferred degree.

Regardless of your age or experience, there is a place for you.

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English requirement
Cambridge C1 Advanced 176, no component below 169Cambridge C2 Proficiency 176, no component below 169IELTS Academic 6.5, no band below 6PTE Academic 58, no component below 50TOEFL iBT 79, no component below 20

If your current English result is below direct entry, consider the university-recognised English language pathway or ELICOS package; successful completion at the required level can usually satisfy English entry without another English test.

Student profile

Total students88
#2024
Higher education entry33 · 38%
38%
School leavers (ATAR)9 · 10%
10%
Secondary education37 · 42%
42%
Vocational pathway<5 · <5%
<5%
Other entry pathways6 · 7%
7%
International students<5 · <5%
<5%

Course curriculum

Course structure, credit points and subject sequence

Course curriculum not yet available

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