Arts (Sociology), 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?

Connect lived experience to broad social issues Studying sociology at UNSW develops your capacity to connect lived experience with broad societal issues. Renowned as the first sociology program in Australia, we have a strong international reputation for theoretical innovation, teaching excellence and training. You'll examine the realities, conflicts and challenges of social life in its many cultural forms.   Studying sociology at UNSW, you'll learn from award-winning teachers and researchers who provide you with a deep appreciation of the complexities and the possibilities of lived experience in a fast-changing world, and generate new perspectives on the diversity of social and cultural experiences Cutting-edge research that addresses big questions What makes life meaningful? Why do we disagree and why do we care? What constitutes social change? The study of sociology addresses these fundamental questions with conceptual rigour and the application of practical insights. Together, our academics and students seek to understand the differences in how we live our lives and the way cultural assumptions are enacted, challenged and transformed in everyday life. This approach underpins how we communicate and interact in the world and equips you in your studies, future work and research prospects.  We teach and research a variety of topics such as: cultural and social theory Indigenous Australia and identity media sociology work and technology ecology and post-humanism visual sociology Asia Pacific region and Australia place, ethnicity, citizenship and globalisation health, quality of life and life cycle. Critical perspectives to broaden your worldview The study of sociology addresses the tensions and interactions between different social and cultural groups. This makes your training as a Sociology Major increasingly valuable in our highly globalised and interconnected world.  Our graduates pursue a wide variety of careers in fields such as: public sector teaching research policy work not-for-profit organisations media industries marketing arts practice international and multilateral organisations. Sociology at UNSW through innovative curriculum design and advanced teaching techniques. We also offer a diverse program of study in€¯related€¯subject€¯areas€¯such€¯as€¯social theory,€¯cultural studies,€¯feminist theory,€¯social anthropology,€¯sociological approaches to communication and public media,€¯political sociology,€¯ethnic studies and policy-related studies. We offer the below undergraduate courses with a specialisation in sociology: