Thinking about studying a Bachelor of Arts at USYD?
Let us give you the low-down on everything you need to know about the degree, including subjects, majors, staff, culture, assessments and more!
Let’s dive in!
What is a Bachelor of Arts at USYD?
Majors for a Bachelor of Arts at USYD
How to Get into a Bachelor of Arts at USYD
什么是教学格式？
What’s the Faculty and Culture Like?
What is a Bachelor of Arts at USYD?
ABachelor of Artsis a degree focused on the study of the humanities and social sciences, such as literature, history, culture, language, thought and more. It’s quite a flexible degree as it has no core units (units you are required to take) and is instead made up of a vast majority of elective units which you can select to make up a major.
谁应该学习艺术学士学位？
It’s well suited for students who enjoy thinking analytically, being challenged on modes of thought and communicating effectively. If you took Advanced English, Extension 1 or 2 English, a history subject or History Extension, it’s more than likely you’d enjoy an Arts degree!
Majors for a Bachelor of Arts at USYD
USYD的艺术学士学位以其广度而闻名majors and unitsyou can take. There are来自艺术学院和其他学院的11个专业的70名专业that you can study as part of your Bachelor of Arts!
Popular majors include:
- English
- International Relations
- Philosophy
- 社会学
- History
- 一种语言（中文，日语，阿拉伯语，西班牙语，希伯来语，韩语，拉丁语，印尼语等）
- Economics
You can find more information on majors here!Otherwise check out our guides for the following majors below:
How do you choose your major?
In your first year, you can test the waters by choosing four different subject units in your first semester. For example, you might choose one philosophy unit, one English unit, one sociology unit and one language unit. After your first semester you’ll generally get an idea of which subjects you enjoyed the most and so in semester 2 you can choose units that are specific to your chosen major!
What’s an English major like?
TheEnglish majorcovers everything from the Classics through to the Medieval and contemporary periods across a variety of mediums such as poetry, plays, novels and films! All texts are explored in relation to their time period, culture, genre and form, with specific focus on developing your analytical and explanatory skills.
您可以选择特定于特定单元的单元（例如Eng1019 Jane Austen），然后现在和现在，Engl1018中世纪想象和Engl1012哥特式想象力，这都是您可以选择的第一年单位。
在后来的几年中，您可以选择旨在发展某种文本的理解和分析技能的特定形式的单元，例如Engl2650阅读诗歌，Engl2654小说Worlds和Engl26667阅读戏，以及更多的利基单元，例如ENGL2672后殖民地后殖民地。现代主义/现代，Engl3623 18世纪：丑闻与社交和Engl3635 Old Norse。
什么是哲学专业？
APhilosophy majorfor a Bachelor of Arts at USYD covers an incredible breadth in the study area, covering logic, ethics, truth and meaning to probability, scepticism, illusion, reality and more! There’s an abundance of units to choose from and all of them focus upon challenging your perceptions, thinking critically and opening your mind.
The first year consists of mainly overview subjects that are split into 3 different categories. For example, PHIL1011 Reality, Ethics and Beauty and PHIL1013 Society, Knowledge and Self. These first year units have a lot of breadth in content and introduce you to a different major philosopher each week. The readings are quite heavy and require you to get your head around all the different modes of thought!
The units become a bit more niche in your second and third year. For example,Phil2667怀疑：从幻想到现实完全围绕着审议外部世界是否存在，而Phil2607 18世纪的18世纪法国哲学完全按照名称的名字介绍，这是一个世纪内法国哲学的历史。
How to Get into a Bachelor of Arts at USYD
ATAR在USYD获得艺术学士学位的ATAR是ATAR80。您可以找到其他入学途径进入艺术学士学位here.
Are there any prerequisites?
There are no prerequisites for an Arts degree but you probably want to have taken at least Advanced English and some humanity subjects such asModern History,古代历史或社会和文化已经发展ed your writing and analytical skills.
有哪些奖学金可用？
There arescholarshipsavailable specifically for any Arts Faculty degree which you can findhereas well as more general scholarships for any undergraduate degree at USYDhere!
什么是教学格式？
USYD的艺术学士学位是通过lectures, tutorials and seminars in semester-stylewhich change from first to third year.
In first year, each unit usually has2小时的讲座(with about讲座剧院中有300人或更多取决于其受欢迎程度）。这与1小时教程which is used to talk about your readings and lecture for the week. Tutorials are much smaller than lectures and usually have somewhere between20 to 25 people in a class.
Once you reach second and third year, you’re more likely to be taught in研讨会格式。Seminars are a在讲座和教程之间混合。They’re bigger than a tutorial withabout 30 peoplebut aremuch more interactive than a lecture.
How many hours do you have to go to university?
在USYD学习艺术学士学位意味着您通常拥有任何大学学位的最低接触时间之一3 contact hours per subject.If you undertake full-time study of 4 units, this generally equates to about12 contact hours a week.
如果你计划你的时间表,你甚至可以得到这个down to coming in only2 days!
However, it’s important to note that what the degree lacks in contact hours, certainly makes up for through readings that are set!
For example,for an English major, there’s a lot of reading involved, where you may be asked to read 1 book per week, as well as your secondary readings（分析您的文本的学术论文）。次要读数在信息和困难上可能非常稠密 - 尽管有时您可以脱离脱颖而出的阅读，并专注于论文的介绍和结论！
What are the assessments like?
Assessments vary depending on each subject, however it’s often amixture of essays, presentations and sometimes exams.您通常会介于两者之间three to four assessments per subject each semester.
For presentations, you’re usuallyasked to present the topic of the week to your tutorial class(weighted about 20%).
散文通常在您早年的长度较短(between1000 to 2000words），但是最终的评估和较老的年份3000 to 4000 wordsfor each essay.最终论文的权重在40％至60％和学期考试之间接近30％。
For essays, you’re required to doa lot of reading（尽管通常是您在整个课程中分配的读数以及更广泛的阅读）来发展和证明您的论点。您有几个星期来写论文，所以请尝试帮自己一个忙，直到最后一分钟才离开！您将被要求通过画布/转蛋白在线提交论文。
First year subjects tend to have more exams – although realistically it’s just an课堂上的论文。You’re usually given a set of questions and can choose which essay question you’d like to answer.
Skills That You Develop
Many skills that you learn through a Bachelor of Arts are skills that you’ll need for life!
您通过艺术学士学位发展的主要技能之一是critical thinking— you learn to think outside of the box, become an independent thinker and challenge assumptions.
You’ll also develop your沟通技巧, both written and spoken. As many assessments are in essay format, the practice ofwriting an essay teaches you to write clearly and express yourself in a logical way. It also pushes you to refine youranalytical skills通过研究文本的研究开发，并根据论点和证据形成判断。
You further refine your ability to haveempathy- 在一个越来越自动化的世界中，寻找有同理心的人变得越来越重要。因此，对其他文化和时事有广泛的了解，并通过学习将发展的技能。
What’s the Faculty and Culture Like?
Sydney Uni Arts can have a reputation for being snobby and elitist, and this可能be off putting for some people. However,这些砂岩墙中的实际人员非常善良！艺术教师的每个讲师和导师都是very passionate and knowledgeable about their subject, genuinely wants you to pass, and care about you a lot.
Culture
Within the classroom,there’s alot of vibrant conversation going on, with many different opinions from a lot of different types of people!对话是富有成果的，将帮助您发展对世界的看法。导师鼓励对话而不是辩论，愿意互相互动，聆听每个人在说什么，并依靠彼此的对话。
In general, the culture is quiteleft wing amongst arts students.There’s a bit of a stereotype that USYD Arts students all shop second hand vintage, wear Doc. Martens, carry canvas bags and walk around with a copy of Honi Soit (the Sydney Uni student newspaper) — although there’s no denying they definitelyareUni最具创造力的梳妆台。从心中，他们是people who are passionate about social issues and are quite engaged in politics and what’s going on in the world.
Societies
在艺术学位上缺乏核心单位意味着您在特定选择性单位中遇到的人可能再也见不到！There’s no cohort that takes all the same units which can make it difficult making friends.That’s why it’s important tobe proactive about making friends and join some extra curricular activities, such as a society!
One of the biggest societies on campus is SASS — the Sydney Arts Student Society. They throw one big ball at the end of the year and also have lots of pub crawls and welcome to semester parties that are great for meeting new people and living that ‘uni life’ everyone always talks about! There’s a few cool societies around like DogSoc (Dog Society) for meetups with pups, Gaius Gracchus for all you Classics lovers, the Enviro Collective, FilmSoc and plenty more.
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