Arts
A Bachelor of Arts degree gives you a broad education, where you'll develop a wide range of skills that many employers look for. Like the ability to find things out for yourself, or to quickly learn new skills and pass them onto others. Unlike other, more specialised degrees, this one can be your ticket into a much wider world of work.
Find out moreWhy ECU?
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Creative Arts #2 in Australia ECU is ranked second in Australia for teaching quality, skills development and quality of educational experience in the Creative Arts discipline.
QILT (Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching), is an annual government survey that measures a range of student experience factors across all Australian higher education institutions.
ECU is also the top-ranked public university in Australia for undergraduate teaching quality in 2019.
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QILT rankings ECU received the top undergraduate teaching quality ranking of all public universities in the Australian Governments 2019 QILT (Quality Indicators for Learning & Teaching) survey.
We're also the top-ranked Australian public university for skills development and overall educational experience (based on two-year aggregated results).
ECU also ranked best in Australia across these disciplines for teaching quality, skills development, student support, quality of educational experience and overall educational experience:
- Humanities, Culture and Social Sciences
- Rehabilitation
- Creative Arts
- Teacher Education
Read more about the QILT survey.
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THE Young University Rankings ECU has been ranked in the world's top 150 universities under 50 years old in the 2019 Times Higher Education (THE) Young Universities Rankings.
Young universities are measured on their teaching, research, citations, international outlook and industry income.
These are the same performance indicators as measured in the overall THE World University Rankings.
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Good Universities Guide In the 2019 Good Universities Guide, ECU graduates have given us a 5-star rating for:
- Teaching quality
- Skills development
- Student support
- Learning resources
- Median salary (based on the starting salary for new domestic graduates under age 25, and in their first full-time job.)
The 5-star rating for teaching quality has now been achieved for 12 years in a row. We're one of only two public universities in Australia to have achieved such a consistently high endorsement.
Read more about the Good Universities Guide.
Courses
Study world ready
Our Bachelor of Arts degrees offer subjects across the creative arts, languages and humanities. Mix and match units to suit your strengths and interests, or combine your Arts degree with another discipline, such as Media and Communications, Law, or Science.
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Become World Ready
Experience Arts at ECU.
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Reduce your expenses
Scholarships recognise those whose life journey may have been challenging, as well as students who've shown outstanding academic excellence and endeavour.
A scholarship can help you realise your ambitions by paying for fees, text books and living expenses.
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Meet students from our History, Politics, Media and Writing courses who are studying at ECU Mount Lawley.
Student
stories
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"It's a real privilege to be elected to parliament, and I have to pinch myself because I didn't plan to be here"
Tim Clifford MLCECU Arts graduate Back in high school, I didn't want to be a politician – I thought politicians were these elites. My Mum used to work in a bar called The Albany Club, and I would go in there to see her after school and I'd see politicians and business owners. They were the big wigs in town: they made the big decisions and they made more money than us. I just never thought I would end up in parliament. Parliament was up on the hill and I was down here in state housing.
I chose the degree – and that was a life-changing choice. There are a lot of people who say 'don't do this or that', but it's usually the people who put themselves out who get to where they want eventually. Education is so important, because it offers direction to people. Follow what you like doing, throw yourself into it and be passionate about it – that's the main thing.
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"I'll be able to finish my course while living in Japan"
Alex BestJapanese student Trusting your lecturers and your own ability is key to being able to learn a new language, especially one as complex as Japanese.
Coming into the course without any previous formal training or experience learning a second language, was daunting. I was pleasantly surprised by the intensive nature of the course and the hands-on attitude of my lecturers, leading me to excel in ways I never expected.
I have been awarded the New Colombo Plan Scholarship for 2016, an Australian Government Scholarship that will assist me during my exchange studies at Kyoto Sangyo University. I am thrilled that I will be able to complete my Japanese language studies while actually living in Japan.