Big picture. Big ideas. A stimulating and challenging program for high-achieving students with a passion for understanding the world we live in.

Throughout this 4-year honours program you will develop valuable logical reasoning, communication and creative thinking skills that can be applied across a range of areas and industries. Our humanities disciplines study society and culture in all its forms, looking for answers to significant and urgent social problems. You'll join an engaging cohort who'll stay together throughout the four years of study. You will also enjoy a number of extracurricular activities, such as an orientation camp in your first year. 

During the program, you'll study a core suite of interdisciplinary courses including:

• Great Works and the Humanities
• Humanities and the Big Questions
• Interdisciplinary Thinking

These courses and your majors will expose you to contemporary thinking in the humanities, provide a forum for interdisciplinary discussion and emphasise connections across humanities disciplines.

Graduating with a Bachelor of Advanced Humanities (Honours) equips you with professional research and critical thinking skills, which you can apply across a range of areas from analysing the ethics of biotechnology to policy development.

Program highlights

• Immerse yourself in a creative and diverse curriculum with a strong focus on key intellectual works that have shaped humanity.
• Organise and run a research symposium and take on an internship which offers you the possibility to hone your professional practice and start building your networks.
• 15 scholarships of $32,000 per year are available to eligible students studying the western civilisation extended major.
• Engage with leading humanities researchers from your first year of study and participate in the university’s research culture, applying and developing your analytical skills through practice-led learning.