Undergraduate · Arts & Design
Bachelor of Arts
La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
About this program
La Trobe's Bachelor of Arts covers an unusually wide humanities and social sciences spread for a Melbourne university, with archaeology standing out as a genuine area of departmental strength. La Trobe has run archaeology programs and fieldwork opportunities (including Australian and international excavation sites) for decades, well before most other Victorian universities built comparable programs. Criminology, politics, sociology, history, creative writing, journalism and a suite of language majors round out the available options.
Students build the degree around a major (occasionally two) plus a broad elective spread, and the course sits within a university that also runs La Trobe's Australian Institute for Public Policy and Innovation, giving politics and public policy students some connection to genuine policy research happening on campus rather than a purely theoretical curriculum.
Cost & duration
English test scores
Course structure
6 terms of coursework
- Major (typically 8 subjects) chosen from Archaeology, Criminology, History, Politics and Policy Studies, Sociology, Creative Writing, Journalism, Languages (including options such as Indonesian, Italian, Spanish), and others
- Second major or minor from a related discipline
- Core Arts foundation subjects in critical thinking and research methods
- Work-integrated learning or fieldwork component (notably in Archaeology)
- Elective subjects to complete the degree
- Honours pathway available in most majors for students proceeding to postgraduate research
Admissions
Year 12 completion or equivalent; ATAR as per current guide