Program Overview

Gain a comprehensive understanding of commercial and policy areas, combined with the essential human skills of an arts degree, with La Trobe's Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Arts.

Co-designed with industry leaders, our double degree gives you a multidisciplinary set of skills and knowledge, sought-after by employers and policymakers. You'll learn to take advantage of the synergies between the two disciplines and successfully solve complex problems by merging technical skills and strategic analysis with experimentation and instinctive imaginative thinking.

By completing La Trobe's Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Arts, you will:

Major: Ethics and Social Justice

Ethics is the study of how we should live, what we should value, and how we can identify the right way to act. Social justice asks us to consider how the benefits, burdens, and opportunities involved in living together in societies should be distributed, to ensure fairness while appropriately respecting individual rights and liberties. In the Ethics and Social Justice major you will acquire a firm foundation in theoretical approaches to these important questions. Frameworks and theories from philosophy, social sciences, politics, gender studies, development studies, and law will provide you with ways to analyse inequalities and understand how they are created and reinforced, and to explore the roles of power structures and social coding of various axes of difference. In examining social justice issues from a range of theoretical perspectives, you will gain a robust conceptual understanding along with experience applying concepts in different areas – a skill increasingly important in a rapidly changing world. These skills and areas of knowledge will ultimately allow you to question, and seek to improve, social practices and institutions.