Bachelor Arts
Avondale University
CRICOS provider number: 02731D TEQSA provider ID: PRV12015
Courses included
This course has been cancelled
About
Avondale's Bachelor of Arts (BA) is a three-year degree designed to present arts within a Christian world view and to help you understand society and your role in it. The course gives you opportunities to develop your abilities in problem-recognition and solving, research skills, analysis, synthesis and creativity, critical and reflective thinking, and written and non-verbal communication.
The degree provides broad preparation for future employment, as well as a sound basis for those wishing to pursue graduate diplomas and other postgraduate qualifications. Studying Arts will develop your higher critical thinking skills and encourage exploration of how you view the world and yourself.
Areas of study
Accounting, biological science, chaplaincy, chemistry, communication, counselling, education, English, food and nutrition, geography, history, human resource management, humanities, marketing, mathematics, music, physics, psychology, religious studies, visual arts.
Career opportunities
Chaplaincy: Chaplain, aged care chaplain, hospital chaplain, school chaplain, youth worker. Counselling: Counsellor, marriage counsellor, family therapist, school counsellor, welfare and youth counsellor. Humanities: Writer, researcher, historian, publisher, museum curator. Music: Musical director, conductor, music studio teacher, freelance musician, arts administration: concert agent, manager, critic and reviewer. Psychology (after completion of necessary postgraduate studies for psychology registration): School psychologist, clinical psychologist, research psychologist, forensic psychologist, neuropsychologist, sports psychologist, social welfare officer, family service officer. Visual Arts: Commercial fine art ceramicist, gallery curator, fine artist, commercial artist, graphic artist.
Practical experience
Placements giving students practical experience are incorporated into the study areas of Counselling (Specialisation only) and Chaplaincy. Counselling students engage in their clinical placement for one day per week, in the final year of their course.
Fees and charges
Essential requirements for admission
For Music: Admission to a music specialisation, music major or music minor through Avondale Conservatorium is by interview, audition and evaluation. Applicants must meet the following minimum standards and submit certified copies of certificates as follows:
- Performance: AMEB Grade 6 minimum (or equivalent) music performance certificate; and or
- Musicianship and Theory: AMEB Grade 4 minimum (or equivalent) musicianship; and or
- Music Craft Level 2A and 2B certificate
Where an applicant does not meet the required minimum standard, admission is possible with other appropriate music experience upon approval from the Director of Music.
Admission criteria
Applicants with recent secondary education
Assumed knowledge: For mathematics: Mathematics Extension 1.
All applicants
Refer to Avondale’s general admission criteria.
Further information
View all details of this course on the Avondale University website.
The academic content of all programs is subject to routine review.
ATAR profile
ATAR-based offers only (semester 1, 2024)
Use all ATAR profile data as a guide only; it provides a broad overview of the ATARs and selection ranks of previous Year 12 students admitted into that course. ATARs and selection ranks required for entry in 2025 may be different. If you are unsure about including a course among your preferences, contact the relevant institution.
- This ATAR profile table is in line with Commonwealth Government transparency requirements. It is based on offers to recent school leavers (ie completed Year 12 in the last 2 years) who were selected solely or partly on their ATAR. Note that some institutions further differentiate this information on their websites.
- The ATAR values exclude any adjustment factors.
- The selection ranks include the ATAR and any adjustment factors.
Abbreviations
– = data is not available.<5 = less than 5 ATAR-based offers were made.
N/A = no offers were made on the basis of ATAR.
NC = new course
NP = Not provided by institution
NR = No reportable profile
NS = No Semester 1 offers
NN = Unavailable (other)
NO = Entry on other criteria
Student profile
Course updates
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Admission criteria
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