Bachelor of Advanced Humanities (Honours)

Big picture. Big ideas. A stimulating and challenging program for high-achieving students with a passion for understanding the world we live in.

Throughout this four year Honours program you will develop valuable logical reasoning, communication and creative thinking skills that can be applied across a range of areas and industries. Our humanities disciplines study society and culture in all its forms, looking for answers to significant and urgent social problems. You'll be part of a small group who'll stay together throughout your four years of study and enjoy a number of extracurricular activities, such as an orientation camp. 

During the program, you'll study a core suite of interdisciplinary courses including:

• Great Works and the Humanities
• Humanities and the Big Questions
• Interdisciplinary Thinking

These courses and your majors will expose you to contemporary thinking in the humanities, provide a forum for interdisciplinary discussion and emphasise connections across humanities disciplines.

Graduating with a Bachelor of Advanced Humanities (Honours) equips you with professional research and critical thinking skills, which you can apply across a range of areas from analysing the ethics of biotechnology to policy development.

Program highlights

• Immerse yourself in a creative and diverse curriculum with a strong focus on key intellectual works that have shaped humanity.
• Organise and run a research symposium and take on an internship which offers you the possibility to hone your professional practice and start building your networks.
• 15 scholarships of $30,000 per year are available to eligible students studying the western civilisation extended major.
• Engage with leading humanities researchers from your first year of study and participate in the university’s research culture, applying and developing your analytical skills through practice-led learning.

Majors
Tailor your studies to suit your goals. This program offers these options:

• Ancient History
• Art History
• Drama
• English Literature
• History
• Mathematics
• Musicology
• Philosophy
• Studies in Religion
• Western Civilisation (Extended Major)