Offered By	ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Duration	3 years full-time
Minimum	144 units
Academic Contact	students.cass@anu.edu.au
Academic Plan	3111XBARTS
CRICOS Code	074016B
UAC Code	131003(Bachelor of Arts)

The Bachelor of Arts program is the largest and most popular degree at The Australian National University. An Arts degree is the perfect choice if you have broad interests in the humanities, visual arts, languages, archaeology and anthropology, music, or the social sciences. Many degree programs are structured to train students for one job. Most of today’s graduates, however, will change career paths four or five times during their working life. Your Arts degree will give you the necessary flexibility to adapt your knowledge and keep ahead of the changes that all of us face in our careers. It also gives you skills for life – critical analysis, research, written and oral communication – skills that are being increasingly recognised by employers as providing them with their greatest assets – employees who can adapt to and help shape change, who can think laterally, apply knowledge and express themselves clearly.

Learning outcomes

Upon successful completion of this program, students will have developed specific subject knowledge and a range of transferable skills.

Subject knowledge

Students should be able to:

• outline theories, factual content and research procedures in their major and other fields of study;
• identify relevant literature, and national and international issues related to their major or other fields of study;  
• analyse and critically evaluate ideas and solve problems;
• determine the processes through which current knowledge was developed; and
• construct relationships and connections between different fields of study.

Transferable skills

Within their fields of study students will have developed:

• communication and presentation skills (oral, written, electronic, graphic);
• teamwork and interpersonal skills (including an understanding of cultural diversity);
• management and planning skills (including self-management skills); and
• intellectual and creative skills.

Admission Requirements

Admission to all programs is on a competitive basis, taking into account all relevant academic qualifications. If you hold more than one qualification, admission will be based on your overall record. Tertiary qualifications are generally weighted more heavily than secondary. If you have completed an approved tertiary preparation course or alternative entry scheme, you will be assessed on the results of that scheme alone, unless you have undertaken subsequent study.

Click HERE for further information about domestic admission pathways.

The table below is a guide to the entry level required for domestic applicants. Exact entry level will be set at time of offer.

Entry Requirement	Entry Level
ATAR	81
QLD Band	10
International Baccalaureate	29

From 2010, the UAI/ENTER/TER will be referred to as ATAR (Australian Tertiary Admission Rank) for admission in 2010. See http://www.uac.edu.au/undergraduate/atar/ for further information.

Queensland Band equivalents are a guide only - selection is made on a UAI equivalent that is not available to students.

The entry requirements above are for domestic applicants only.

International applicants may view further information on admissions requirements at Entry Requirements for International Undergraduate Applicants

The University reserves the right to alter or discontinue its programs as required.

The information published on the Study at ANU 2012 website applies to the 2012 academic year only. All information provided on this website replaces the information contained in the Study at ANU 2011 website.