Handbook

The Bachelor of Arts (UNSW BA) is designed to provide you with all the benefits of an education in the Humanities, Social Sciences and the Creative and Performing Arts. The degree is flexible so that you can structure it around your skills, interests and career aspirations. The program has both breadth, allowing you to try out and explore different areas of interest, and depth, allowing you to focus in detail on two areas of specialisation. The UNSW BA can be completed full time in Single mode (normally 3 years), in Dual Mode (the equivalent of two years full time) or part time. Dual Mode can only be taken in conjunction with enrolment in another degree.

If you study in either the single or dual mode, you will complete:

1. a home major of 60 UOC (ten courses) selected from the list of UNSW BA approved home major specialisations;
2. a minor specialisation of 24 UOC (four courses) selected from the list of UNSW BA approved home and external major specialisations or dedicated minor specialisations;
3. 12 UOC Prescribed Electives (two courses) of any other courses offered from within UNSW Arts and Social Sciences.

If you study in single mode, you will also complete:

1. an additional 12 UOC (two courses) of UNSW Arts and Social Sciences Prescribed Electives;
2. 24 UOC of Free Electives (four courses) which can be taken within or outside of UNSW Arts and Social Sciences;
3. 12 UOC of General Education (two courses) which must be taken outside of UNSW Arts and Social Sciences.

You can use your elective and General Education courses to upgrade your minor to another full major specialisation in the single degree and graduate with a double major.