Arts (Aboriginal Studies), Bachelor

With our versatile Bachelor of Arts, you can select from an extensive range of majors and minors across humanities, social sciences, business, health, and science—approximately 50 options in total. This flexibility ensures your career possibilities remain open while allowing you to pursue both your passion and profession.Shape your future with this interdisciplinary degree by choosing one primary arts major and complementing it with secondary majors, minors, or electives from various university departments. Your primary major will be highlighted on your academic transcript, showcasing your expertise to potential employers. Design your unique educational journey—whether combining sociology with psychology and adding Chinese as an elective, or pairing economics with English, or even crime, justice, and legal studies with linguistics. Regardless of your chosen path, you’ll benefit from instruction by world-class academics and leading researchers dedicated to helping you realize your aspirations.

The Aboriginal Studies Major provides students with the opportunity to learn about Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander history, culture and community. In this major you will be exposed to a range of academic disciplines including history, archaeology, politics, public health, anthropology, media studies and linguistics. Throughout the major you will engage with topics focussed on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities that promote strong cultural awareness, Indigenous knowledges, community development and social advocacy.

You will study different aspects of Aboriginal societies including, Aboriginal history and languages, the contemporary politics of Indigenous Australia, Aboriginal self-determination and the impact of government policy on Indigenous Australians. This will give you an in-depth understanding of the place of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in mainstream Australia and introduce you to social research methods aimed at promoting local community engagement, wellbeing and empowerment in Aboriginal communities.