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: Visual Cultures

The Visual Cultures major brings together multidisciplinary approaches to visual culture, from the moving image to art history and art theory. Today's world is image-saturated, from art to advertising, propaganda to photography, fashion to film, architecture to graphic design, and from newsfeeds to Instagram. As digital technology expands, more and more people become active producers and consumers of visual culture. In this major you will learn how visual meaning is socially, politically and culturally constructed and received in the past and the present.

The Visual Cultures major will provide you with theoretical and analytical skills to critically interpret and write about images and objects. You will be trained to shape, transform and engage with contemporary visual culture, exhibitions and museum practices, and to work in the arts industry, education, and the GLAM sector (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums).