Courses

The Faculty of Arts and Education offers courses that train students to make a difference. Programs are innovative and responsive to industry demands, and have particular relevance for professionals working in the cultural and communication industries and international business, or students wishing to pursue a career in these areas.

Faculty programs are organised under areas that are relevant to the workplace:

• Communication and Media
• International Studies
• Performing and Creative Arts
• Society and Politics
• Teaching, Education and Training

Faculty undergraduate and postgraduate courses:

• provide high-quality teaching of the core disciplines and generic skills, including critical and analytical thinking, oral and written communication, information retrieval and research; and collaborative intellectual endeavour;
• link the theoretical and intellectual understandings provided by core disciplines with the professional and applied skills required by the changing workplace;
• offer many opportunities for students to gain workplace and international experience through professional experience and experiential learning, study abroad and student exchange .

Higher degree research supervision is offered across the range of these disciplines

The programs are innovative, not only in their flexibility but their mode of delivery. Most programs are offered both on and off campus. All teaching is enhanced by Deakin Studies Online (DSO) an interactive website for online delivery. Students at Deakin are required to take at least one fully online subject to prepare them for a future in which learning and the workplace will be increasingly dominated by electronic communication.

Graduate Certificate of Arts and Sciences

The Graduate Certificate of Arts and Sciences gives you the opportunity to broaden your education by studying disciplines beyond the boundaries of specialised study. It can be taken concurrently with an undergraduate degree or, alternatively, it may be taken as a stand alone course.

The program will expose you to perspectives provided by a range of disciplines such as history, media studies, literature, sociology, philosophy, science, technology, health and law. Research shows that employers want graduates who not only have strong skills in their chosen fields but possess broad knowledge and the ability to think outside the confines of their specific discipline. Deakin has developed this course in direct response to this feedback from employers in order to give our graduates the best possible career prospects.

Application, fees and other information can be found on the future students web site.