Arts and Sciences, Victoria
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The School of Arts and Sciences (Vic), within the national Faculty of Arts and Sciences, offers a range of courses in the Humanities, the Sciences, the Social Sciences and the Visual and Performing Arts, to meet the needs of students from a variety of backgrounds.
Choice of campuses
The School of Arts and Sciences (Vic) has staff on ACU National's two Victorian campuses - Melbourne Campus (St Patrick's) and Ballarat Campus (Aquinas). Staff at St.Patrick's teach in a range of degree courses in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. At Aquinas campus, staff undertake service teaching for Education and Health Sciences. They also travel to Melbourne to teach within the degree courses run by this School.
Areas of expertise
The academic staff focus on teaching and research in the areas of Humanities, Visual and Performing Arts, Social Sciences and Science. It comprises staff expert in a range of disciplines:
- Drama
- Family Studies
- History
- Japanese
- Literature
- Media
- Music
- Politics
- Science
- Sociology
- Visual Arts
- Youth Work
Employment prospects
The School offers a broad range of subjects across a number of majors and minors. The specialisations offered provide graduates with a variety of employment opportunities in a diversity of industries eg. Human Resources, Social Welfare, Teaching and Travel, Communications, Counselling, Health etc.
In addition, staff supervise students in a number of discipline areas at Honours, Masters and Doctoral levels.
Enriching the community
The School holds firmly to the Mission of the University of seeking 'to make a specific contribution to its local, national and international communities' and staff of the School engage actively in community service as well as their teaching and research.
We hope that the School's website provides visitors with useful information about teaching, research and related activities within the School.
More information
For further information about the School of Arts and Sciences (Vic) please contact the Administrative Officer Sylvia Herlihy on + 61 03 9953 3240 or s.herlihy@patrick.acu.edu.au
- For information about courses offered by the School of Arts and Sciences, please refer to the Faculty of Arts and Sciences' list of courses.
