Overview

Build your own degree, forge your own path and create your own unique expertise. With this flexible Arts degree, you can explore your passion while learning the skills you’ll need in the workforce, including critical thinking, communication, complex problem solving and collaboration.

Keep your options open or specialise in your chosen area. Humanities and Social Science majors can be paired with majors from the Business School and the College of Science Health and Engineering or take up to 16 electives in almost any discipline across the University.

You’ll experience a balance of independent and collaborative learning. Small class sizes ensure you have access to personalised feedback and guidance from our expert teachers. Along with online or face to face, lectures and tutorials, your classes will include a combination of seminars, podcasts and online resources.

Our graduates work in industries including community development, media, management, social policy and education.

Prerequisites

Year 12 prerequisites

Units 3 and 4: a study score of at least 25 in English (EAL) or at least 20 in English other than EAL.

Non-Year 12 prerequisites

Subject proficiency: Demonstrated proficiency equivalent to stated Year 12 prerequisites.

Majors

Accounting (Albury Wodonga, Mildura), Agribusiness, Biomedical science (Albury Wodonga), Event management (Bendigo), Health and sustainability (Bendigo), Health promotion (Bendigo), Health, wellbeing and performance (Bendigo), History, heritage and environment, Human geography (Bendigo only), Indonesian (Bendigo only), Legal studies, Management (Bendigo), Marketing (Bendigo), Mathematics (Bendigo), Molecular biology (Bendigo), Pharmaceutical chemistry (Bendigo), Physics (Bendigo), Psychology (Albury Wodonga, Bendigo), Public health (Bendigo), Rehabilitation counselling (Bendigo), Society, culture and social change, Sports management (Bendigo), Writing and literature.

Potential Career Outcomes

Our graduates have gone on to be employed in a wide range of areas which value the skills of communication, writing, research, problem solving, critical thinking and project management. These include Arts and cultural organisations, startups, not-for-profits, NGOs, Government (local, state and Commonwealth), publishing, Media and Communication, Higher education and human resources.

ATAR & Selection Rank

The table below shows the ATAR and Selection Rank information for those offered places wholly or partly on the basis of ATAR in 2020.

ATAR-based offers only, across all offer rounds
ATAR
(excluding adjustment factors)
Selection Rank
(including adjustment factors)
Highest rank to receive an offer91.8099.95
Median rank to receive an offer56.7072.95
Lowest rank to receive an offer42.6558.80

<5 - Less than 5 ATAR-based offers were made

Admission Criteria

Please refer to the La Trobe University website for admission criteria information.

Course Seeker

This information is sourced from Course Seeker, a joint initiative between the Australian Government and the Tertiary Admission Centres. View more information on Course Seeker.


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