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The Bachelor of Arts will equip you for today’s rapidly changing world. You will develop skills and capacities necessary to understand how the world has come to be the way it is today.

The disciplines housed in the Bachelor of Arts degree share a common interest in viewing and appreciating the world afresh, developing the analytical and communicative abilities to enrich life and your community.

Construct your Bachelor of Arts degree by selecting majors and minors some that will be familiar (such as english, history, politics) and some that may be less familiar (such as international relations, sociology and environmental humanities).

Completing a major (or two) as part of your Bachelor of Arts degree will give you a set of skills that relate to the discipline you are studying (gaining expertise in history, for example) and versatile skills in critical thinking, analysis, cultural intelligence, and conceptual frameworks. Because you can do more than one major, it is a good idea to choose widely in your first year, before settling on a major or majors in your second year.

Major: English Literatures

Studying English literatures will get you thinking creatively about the English language. You will analyse theories, critique prose and verse, and take a more critical look at the signs and words surrounding us every day.

Develop in-demand skills including analytical thinking, exceptional written and oral communication skills, and the capacity to appreciate differences in cultural perspectives.

At UOW, English literature is studied with regard to style, theme and form, and in relation to questions of race, gender, sexuality, class and nation. This major introduces you to a broad range of texts, novels, poetry, essays, short stories, film, diaries and letters from medieval times to the modern, with a strong international focus. We have a broad list of subjects that you can choose from depending on your area of interest, including literature and film, romantics, US literature, Victorians, Shakespeare, and Indigenous literature.

In addition to the English literatures major you will choose a minor or a second major from the Bachelor of Arts offerings. Completion of full majors at regional campuses is subject to availability at time of enrolment.