Arts (Film studies), Bachelor

Discover where your strengths and interests can lead with a Bachelor of Arts, offering flexibility to explore broadly before specializing in what excites you most. Spanning humanities, creative arts, and social sciences, this versatile degree lets you pursue passions, develop skills, and craft a unique career path—either standalone, focusing on one to three areas, or as a double degree with fields like Law or Education.You'll gain in-demand skills such as critical thinking, problem-solving, evidence-based reasoning, communication, and creativity, while broadening your worldview. Engage with profound questions on human existence, challenge assumptions, and apply innovative ideas to issues like climate change, human rights, technology ethics, social justice, and cultural diversity. The Bachelor of Arts equips you to drive meaningful impact in a field you love. Where will your passions take you?

Understand the world around you through film   Over its 120-year history, film has evolved from a novelty item to a medium that informs every aspect of society and contemporary life. Film studies at UNSW will help you tell stories, share human experiences, document reality and expand perceptual horizons as an experimental art form. Film plays a crucial role in establishing and critiquing cultural values and explores the most pressing issues in the world: its social inequalities, political injustices, aesthetic boundaries or ethical values. Film can also act as a source of information, legal evidence and inform medical procedures and training. Become a visual storyteller  As a student of UNSW, you'll acquire foundational skills in film analysis and be introduced to a range of national cinemas, providing you with a window to other cultures. You'll develop an understanding of the global film industry through the study of Hollywood cinema while also learning about the power and value of independent production. Through your study of cinematic history, you'll attain a unique understanding of its place in the world and its power to determine what history is. You'll achieve fluency and literacy in the most powerful language in human history: the power of moving images. Get practical experience from industry professionals  Beyond film theory, your learning experience will also involve practical instruction in video production, project development, technical analysis and screenwriting. Armed with a camera, microphone, a studio, and a screen, you'll be able to tell your narrative, your way. Join our lively film society, student film and video production groups and put theory into practice with access to our multimedia labs and a range of other practical resources.  Create a valuable network  Our affiliations and internships with film and media organisations will equip you with real industry experience and valuable industry connections. We frequently collaborate with the Sydney Film Festival, the Vision Splendid Film Festival, the Persian Film Festival, the Ritz Cinema Randwick and many more organisations across Australia.