Bachelor of Arts

Are you interested in careers requiring skills such as effective written and verbal communication, critical thinking and analysis, and the ability to research and present professionally? Want to learn more about society and culture?

The AUT Bachelor of Arts has 19 majors giving you many options to structure your degree. You can construct a broad and varied degree with a single major and choose from a wide range of minors, or you can do a double major.

In your final year you will integrate what you have learned from your core papers and major subjects through a workplace project.

Quick Facts

Entry Requirements

  • An interview may be required for Interpreting and Translation applicants
  • Interpreting and Translation applicants must demonstrate a high level of proficiency in English and one other language.

Majors

Additional Majors and Minors

Additional majors and minors

Structure and Content

The BA is a very flexible degree allowing you to study many aspects of society and culture. Your degree can be constructed in a variety of different ways but is essentially made up of several building blocks:

  • A core selection of papers which provide a backbone to the degree – Communicating, Writing, Research and Cooperative Education; these papers develop transferable skills and support your work in all other papers in the degree.
  • A major — this is the main subject and the focus of your degree.
  • Another major or a minor which provides a smaller focus in another subject.
  • Elective papers.

Each year of your degree you will typically take papers from the core, your major(s) and/or minor. A Cooperative Education paper is done in a workplace setting in your third year.

Related Programmes

Career Opportunities

Graduates will be at the cutting edge of knowledge and learn about the latest developments in your field of study. You will be prepared to advance professionally or pursue postgraduate study in your chosen field.

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