The Diploma of Arts provides you with an opportunity to explore a humanities or social sciences discipline in some depth. Successful completion of the Diploma of Arts will allow you guaranteed entry into the Bachelor of Arts. As a student in this course, you will explore disciplines that study the way humans recognise, record and debate human practices, meanings and values. This will aid you in developing contemporary understandings of both the human condition and how society operates. You will have the opportunity to gain crucial lifelong learning and transferable generic skills, such as critical thinking and problem solving and you will be able to apply these skills to a range of employment opportunities and life situations.

As a graduate of the Diploma of Arts, you may find career opportunities in administrative and assistant roles in advertising, arts administration, editing, government administration and planning, communications, copywriting, desktop publishing, environmental planning and management, geography, history, journalism, librarianship, research, nature and heritage conservation, political research, psychology, teaching, welfare, writing, and many more.