Bachelor of Arts

CDU pitches its Bachelor of Arts around a genuinely distinctive regional angle: rather than being a generic humanities degree, it's built around issues facing Northern Australia, Indigenous communities, and South-East Asia, which makes sense given Darwin sits closer to Dili and Denpasar than to Sydney. Students choose from nine majors, including options rarely paired together at one institution: Digital Communication and Indigenous Studies sit alongside more familiar choices, and an Architecture major (unusual for a BA) covers representation, spatial design, and industry-standard drafting tools with a tropical-north focus.

The Indigenous Studies major is arguably the strongest reason to choose CDU specifically over an east-coast university for this degree; it's taught by staff embedded in Northern Territory Aboriginal communities and covers philosophy, sociology, and Indigenous perspectives in a way that's hard to replicate somewhere without that geographic and cultural proximity. The Digital Communication major, meanwhile, tracks social media, media ethics, and multi-screen communication, practical skills for content and comms roles rather than a literary-criticism-heavy media studies track.

As with most CDU undergraduate degrees, the BA is available fully online, on campus, or mixed, and can be taken part-time, which matters given a meaningful chunk of the student body balances study with work or family responsibilities in regional NT towns.