Program Overview

The Foundation Studies program is equivalent to Year 12 and prepares you for entry into first year degree studies.

Course Structure
In your Foundation Studies program, you’ll study four subjects in each of your two trimesters. You’ll also undertake independent learning to develop learning and research skills to prepare you for university.

Leading to: Bachelor of Arts

Shape your own future and pursue your passion

Get the flexibility, choice and support you need to turn what you’re passionate about into a rewarding career.

• Expand your opportunities with an array of around 50 majors and minors from humanities, social sciences, business, health and science.
• Gain real-world experience through an industry-placement at organisations like SBS Radio and the United Nations of Australia.
• We’re ranked in the world’s top 150 for linguistics and sociology, and the top 250 for politics.
• With StudyFlex, you have the opportunity to learn both online and on-campus.
• Studying regionally? You’ll benefit from enhanced online support services, local work placement opportunities and industry network connections with our Regional Connect program.

Major: History

A History major gives you the tools to understand how the world got to where it is today, and to examine how social, political and cultural change could happen in the future. In this major you are taken from the ancient world of myth through to the present day, and are offered a range of geographical perspectives from Australia, Europe, the US, Latin America and Asia. You will address key themes such as the nature of the historical imagination, the rise and decline of empires, mass migration, human rights and environmental sustainability.

You can choose to explore topics as different as the history of food, the history of sexuality, Aboriginal history, religion and fundamentalism, slavery and human trafficking, genocides and the Holocaust, civil rights, and the history of the environment. You'll learn traditional approaches to historical research, engage with visual and popular culture, and gain mixed media skills to produce new histories for the 21st century.