Bachelor of Arts

With a Griffith arts degree, you'll learn to think critically and creatively, innovate, communicate for influence and harness the power of your ideas. With a wide variety of majors and minors and hundreds of electives to choose from, you'll have the power to create your own unique skill set. Equipped with in-depth knowledge about society and culture, you’ll gain the insight and skills to find and put into practice creative solutions to current and future challenges. In your final year, you will collaborate with your fellow arts students and explore solutions to a contemporary problem. You will also have the opportunity to complete an internship, work-based learning project and study abroad, ensuring that you graduate with the experience, knowledge and skills to set you on the path for a vibrant career.

Griffith offers a number of admission pathways to your preferred degree. If you don’t meet the minimum ATAR/selection rank for this degree, you will automatically be considered for a place in the Diploma of Arts/Bachelor of Arts. This means you may receive an offer into the Bachelor of Arts which is conditional on successful completion of the Diploma of Arts at Griffith University. Upon successful completion of the Diploma of Arts you will be transferred into the second year of the Bachelor of Arts program. More information about Undergraduate Diplomas.

Areas of study

Majors: Chinese, creative writing, criminal justice, drama, French,* German,* history, Indigenous studies, Indonesian,* Islam-West relations, Italian, Japanese, journalism, Korean,* language, culture and society, literary studies, Modern Greek,* security and international studies, popular culture and screen studies, psychology, sociology, social justice, Spanish, strategic communication. Minors: Art history and theory, digital media production, environmental humanities, gender studies, medical humanities, politics and international studies, Russian,* screen studies, security studies, Spanish, Translating and Interpreting for Chinese Speakers.
*Via cross-institutional study.

Career opportunities

A variety of roles in advertising, aid work, administration, arts management, information management, community development, heritage, journalism, librarianship (with further study), media production, public relations, research, social policy analysis, teaching (with further study), web production, welfare services.

Fees and charges

Refer to Griffith University current fee information.