Bachelor of Liberal Studies (Arts)

What is this course about?

CSU's Bachelor of Liberal studies (Arts) program aims to provide flexible course options by offering access to a diverse pool of subjects, thereby increasing the potential for students to meet a wider range of vocational needs in an increasingly broad variety of environments.

Bachelor of Liberal Studies (Arts)

This course aims to provide flexible course design options for undergraduate students of arts by providing access to a diverse pool of subjects requiring a wide range of skills for active and successful participation. The aim of this approach is to increase the potential for students to meet a wider range of vocational needs in an increasingly broad variety of environments.

On completion of the degree, students will:

• be equipped with knowledge, skills and expertise in a variety of areas of endeavour
• be instructed in the methods of discovery, advancement and utilisation of knowledge
• have enhanced transferable skills such as proficient written and oral communication.

Associate Degree in Liberal Studies (Arts)

The aims of this course are to provide:

• students with formal arts qualifications that reflect a generalist level of study
• an understanding of conceptual tools, theories and methodologies in nominated areas of study in arts
• an orientation to the purposes, functions and practices within nominated areas of study.

This course is an exit point from the Bachelor degree.

University Certificate in Liberal Studies (Arts)

The course will provide students with knowledge, skills and attitudes outlined in the Associate Degree at an introductory level, dependent on subject selection. This course is an early exit point from the Bachelor degree.

Course flexibility

Students undertaking a Bachelor of Liberal Studies (Arts) may desire the structure, or the particular employment/graduate opportunities that a traditional degree may offer. The Bachelor of Liberal Studies (Arts) offers students a chance to engage in a different style of degree, while also providing them with opportunity to undertake subjects which make up alternative degrees.

Upon successful completion of a number of these subjects, it may be possible for students to transfer into an alternate course, such as the Bachelor of Arts. Likewise, students currently undertaking other courses within the Faculty of Arts may transfer into the Bachelor of Liberal Studies (Arts) in order to take subjects that could not previously be counted towards their degree.

Academic expectations

For each 8 point subject at CSU, students should normally expect to spend between 140-160 hours engaged in the specified learning and assessment activities (such as attending lectures or residential schools, assigned readings, tutorial assistance, individual or group research/study, forum activity, workplace learning, assignments or examinations). The student workload for some subjects may vary from these norms as a result of approved course design.

Students will be assessed on the basis of completed assignments, examinations, workplace learning, or other methods as outlined in specific subject outlines.

Where applicable, students are responsible for travel and accommodation costs involved in workplace learning experiences, or attending residential schools (distance education students).

Expectations relating to academic, workplace learning, time and cost requirements for specific subjects are provided in the subject abstracts and in course materials.