Bachelor of Arts

Highlights

• Study your way with the option to complete your degree 100% online, on campus or from a regional university hub. 
• Guaranteed industry experience from your first year and guaranteed internships in the degree.
• Apply your knowledge through community engagement, internships and industry-connected projects.  
• Shape your studies by combining majors, minors and electives across technology, culture and society, or design your own pathway with the Open major. 
• Develop the skills employers demand: critical thinking, digital literacy, ethical decision-making, research expertise and persuasive communication. 
• Learn from leading experts - Study with researchers and industry leaders working in digital culture, social innovation, justice, education and creative practice. 

Why choose this course

Technology is reshaping how we live and work. At the same time, culture, ethics and communities are shaping how technology evolves. The biggest challenges of our time sit where these forces meet. 

The Bachelor of Arts at QUT is designed for that intersection. As a university of technology, QUT brings a distinctive perspective to the humanities, combining critical thinking with digital capability, research expertise with real-world application, and creative insight with industry awareness. 

You’ll have the freedom to follow your interests while building sought-after skills in analytical thinking, digital and information literacy, communication, collaboration and ethical decision making. With ten contemporary majors and flexible study options, you can shape your degree to match your strengths and career goals. 

You will graduate ready for established career pathways across government, media, education, policy, technology and the creative industries, with the adaptability to respond as roles continue to evolve. 

Real-world learning

Tackle the defining challenges of our time with a future-focused arts degree that builds ethical awareness and critical insight into today’s global issues. 

From your first year, you’ll connect your studies to real-world challenges through community engagement units that explore local issues and opportunities. Later in your course, you’ll apply your skills in a work context through a second community engagement unit and a guaranteed work integrated learning internship giving you valuable industry experience and professional connections. 

These experiences help you build confidence, apply your knowledge and graduate ready to make a difference. 

You’ll learn from academic experts with deep research and industry experience, many of whom are QUT alumni actively shaping their fields.  

Flexible course options

The Bachelor of Arts is designed to help you turn your interests into a meaningful career. You’ll study a major that builds specialist knowledge in your chosen area, alongside common units that develop key skills in communication, critical thinking and ethical judgement.  

If you want to tailor your pathway further, you can choose the open major. This major allows you to choose units from across Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice. 

Your degree features: 

• six common units that develop key creative, critical and professional skills in the humanities and social sciences. 
• Choose an eight unit major (or build your own with the Open major) to develop knowledge and skills highly valued not just in Australia, but in global contexts. 
• Eight complimentary units that allow you to either: 
  • Extend your expertise through electives, or 
  • Diversify your skills with a second major or minor. 
• Four QUT You units - Our university-wide curriculum designed to prepare you for a rapidly changing future.

Double Degrees

Combine your Bachelor of Arts with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and graduate with two qualifications in just 5.5 years.  This future-focused double degree prepares you to shape the evolving relationship between law, technology, culture, and society. 

• Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

Study languages

If you want to take on the world when you graduate, you can complement your Bachelor of Arts degree by studying a foreign language. 

Highlights

• Guaranteed industry experience from your first year and guaranteed internships in the degree.
• Apply your knowledge through community engagement, internships and industry-connected projects.  
• Shape your studies by combining majors, minors and electives across technology, culture and society, or design your own pathway with the Open major. 
• Develop the skills employers demand: critical thinking, digital literacy, ethical decision-making, research expertise and persuasive communication. 
• Learn from leading experts - Study with researchers and industry leaders working in digital culture, social innovation, justice, education and creative practice. 

Why choose this course

Technology is reshaping how we live and work. At the same time, culture, ethics and communities are shaping how technology evolves. The biggest challenges of our time sit where these forces meet. 

The Bachelor of Arts at QUT is designed for that intersection. As a university of technology, QUT brings a distinctive perspective to the humanities, combining critical thinking with digital capability, research expertise with real-world application, and creative insight with industry awareness. 

You’ll have the freedom to follow your interests while building sought-after skills in analytical thinking, digital and information literacy, communication, collaboration and ethical decision making. With ten contemporary majors and flexible study options, you can shape your degree to match your strengths and career goals. 

You will graduate ready for established career pathways across government, media, education, policy, technology and the creative industries, with the adaptability to respond as roles continue to evolve. 

Real-world learning

Tackle the defining challenges of our time with a future-focused arts degree that builds ethical awareness and critical insight into today’s global issues. 

From your first year, you’ll connect your studies to real-world challenges through community engagement units that explore local issues and opportunities. Later in your course, you’ll apply your skills in a work context through a second community engagement unit and a guaranteed work integrated learning internship giving you valuable industry experience and professional connections. 

These experiences help you build confidence, apply your knowledge and graduate ready to make a difference. 

You’ll learn from academic experts with deep research and industry experience, many of whom are QUT alumni actively shaping their fields.  

Flexible course options

The Bachelor of Arts is designed to help you turn your interests into a meaningful career. You’ll study a major that builds specialist knowledge in your chosen area, alongside common units that develop key skills in communication, critical thinking and ethical judgement.  

If you want to tailor your pathway further, you can choose the open major. This major allows you to choose units from across Creative Industries, Education and Social Justice. 

Your degree features: 

• six common units that develop key creative, critical and professional skills in the humanities and social sciences. 
• Choose an eight unit major (or build your own with the Open major) to develop knowledge and skills highly valued not just in Australia, but in global contexts. 
• Eight complimentary units that allow you to either: 
  • Extend your expertise through electives, or 
  • Diversify your skills with a second major or minor. 
• Four QUT You units - Our university-wide curriculum designed to prepare you for a rapidly changing future.

Double Degrees

Combine your Bachelor of Arts with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and graduate with two qualifications in just 5.5 years.  This future-focused double degree prepares you to shape the evolving relationship between law, technology, culture, and society. 

• Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Laws (Honours)