Create your path
Your degree, your way
Our flexible degrees give you the freedom to explore your passions while developing the skills, knowledge and experiences that employers value most. You’ll shape a study path that reflects your interests, build capabilities that prepare you for a wide range of careers and graduate ready to thrive in an increasingly complex global world.
Undergraduate degrees
Explore single and double degrees. Single degrees typically take three years and double degrees four years. UNSW has had the most employable students in Australia for six years in a row.
Postgraduate degrees
Explore our master’s coursework programmes to accelerate your career and gain a professional advantage. Build advanced skills, broaden your creative practice and connect with leading industry and research experts across the School of the Arts & Media.
Discover degrees by study areas
Creative Writing
Creative writing empowers you to produce innovative contributions to contemporary literature. You’ll explore experimental writing across genres in fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction and more.
Communication and Journalism
Recognised as the Australian university with the strongest connections to the journalism industry, we offer you the chance to gain hands-on experience and build valuable professional networks.
English Literary Studies
With our world-ranking English literary studies, you’ll study with teachers and researchers who are deeply passionate about their work and believe that English is more than an academic discipline.
Film Studies
Explore the power of moving images, from cinema to digital media. Film Studies combines critical theory with hands-on practice, helping you understand how screen cultures shape the world we live in. Develop your voice as a thinker, maker and storyteller as part of a dynamic community of creatives and scholars.
Media Studies
Contemporary media influences all aspects of our lives. You’ll investigate and learn from leading academics and have opportunities to work with real clients on live projects.
Music
Learn that music is more than just an expression. We’ll help you develop your ability to the highest standards in performing, composing, researching, producing or teaching.
PR and Advertising
Develop a strong understanding of current and emerging PR and advertising practices, and how they have evolved to influence our daily lives.
Screen Production
Screen Production offers hands-on courses in film, interactive and experimental media, sound, writing, and animation. You’ll develop creative, conceptual and professional skills for a dynamic career in the evolving global media industries and creative arts.
Theatre and Performance
Explore live performance. Be part of stage plays with professional directors, work with a team on collaborative creations, stage an action in public spaces or undertake work as a solo performer.
Support, skills and experience
Work Integrated Learning
Work directly with industry and community partners for credit towards your degree.