Program Overview

Diploma in Arts
The Diploma in Arts provides a pathway into the Bachelor of Arts degree. A qualification in the Arts can cover a broad range of humanities subjects from writing and literature, to studies of other cultures, religions and languages. It can also enable you to access a pathway to Teaching with up to one-year equivalent advanced standing. Furthermore, this course offers a foundation unit in Academic English that provides an additional skills base for tertiary level study.

Articulation to Western Sydney University
Students successfully completing the Diploma in Arts will be granted entry into the second year of a Bachelor of Arts course at Western Sydney University.

Leading to: Bachelor of Arts (Pathway to Teaching Secondary)
This program will put you on the path to a Master of Teaching, and a rewarding career as a primary-school teacher. Look forward to agency placements and field experience that will give you a real sense of what it’s like to teach. This program also gives you skills to explore your prospects beyond the classroom, such as communication and media industries, psychology and counselling, cultural and social policy analysis, and writing and publishing.

Major: Modern History
Modern History includes the studies of societies, states and cultures since the Middle Ages and equivalent periods elsewhere. It provides important insights into the nature of the modern world, and into the origins of the features of modern life we now think of as ‘global’.

Modern History is an important teaching area for students heading into for Secondary Teaching: the purpose of this major is to group together all of the units which count as Modern History for the purposes of the Master of Teaching program and the Institute of Teaching.

Successful completion of the modern History major will count as a first teaching area for Secondary Teaching. Note that there is a wider list of history units available in the History and Political Thought major.