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Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Science - Arts stream

Sample enrolment

Sample pathway

General plan for Arts major, with one liberal studies unit per semester

Note that other arrangements are also possible.
Requirements for Arts Stream:

144 cp total (maximum 84cp 1000-level units)
minimum 36 cp of units listed in the Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Science Units Table (including ATHK1001, WRIT1001 and 6 cp from the Ethics area)
one Arts major from (Table A)
minimum 36 cp Table A Science units (including at least 12 credit points 2000 or 3000-level units);
maximum 12 cp from the Table S elective list
NB: i) Units chosen to satisfy the liberal studies requirement cannot count towards the Science or Arts requirements.
ii) If you major in Science you must complete 36cps in Arts and if you major in Arts you must complete 36cps in Science

General pathway

	Semester	Unit of study 1 & credit points	Unit of study 2 & credit points	Unit of study 3 & credit points	Unit of study 4 & credit points	Total
Year 1	1	Arts Table A Major 1XXX	Arts or Science Elective XXXX	Science Unit 1XXX	Liberal Arts and Science Unit Analytical Thinking ATHK1001
	1	6	6	6	6	24
	2	Arts Table A Major 1XXX	Arts or Science Elective XXXX	Science Unit 1XXX	Liberal Arts and Science Unit Writing and Rhetoric - Academic Essays WRIT1001
	2	6	6	6	6	24
Year 2	1	Arts Table A Major 2XXX	Table S Elective XXXX	Science Unit 1XXX/2XXX	Liberal Arts and Science Unit HPSC/PHILXXXX
	1	6	6	6	6	24
	2	Arts Table A Major 2XXX	Table S Elective XXXX	Science Unit 1XXX/2XXX	Liberal Arts and Science Elective Unit XXXX
	2	6	6	6	6	24
Year 3	1	Arts Table A Major 3XXX	Arts Table A Major 3XXX	Science Unit 2XXX/3XXX	Liberal Arts and Science Elective Unit XXXX
	1	6	6	6	6	24
	2	Arts Table A Major 3XXX	Arts Table A Major 3XXX	Science Unit 2XXX/3XXX	Liberal Arts and Science Elective Unit XXXX
	2	6	6	6	6	24
Total credit points:						144

Example pathway: History major

Note that other arrangements are also possible.

	Semester	Unit of study 1 & credit points	Unit of study 2 & credit points	Unit of study 3 & credit points	Unit of study 4 & credit points	Total
Year 1	1	History Major HSTY1001 Age of Empires	Arts or Science Elective BIOL1006 Life and Evolution	Science Unit PSYC1001 Psychology 1001	Liberal Arts and Science Unit ATHK1001 Analytical Thinking
	1	6	6	6	6	24
	2	History Major HSTY1003 Birth of the Present: The world since 1750	Arts or Science Elective HPSC1001 What is this thing called Science?	Science Unit PSYC1002 Psychology 1002	Liberal Arts and Science Unit WRIT1001 Writing and Rhetoric: Academic Essays
	2	6	6	6	6	24
Year 2	1	History Major HSTY2607 Palestine, Israel and the Middle East	Table S Elective HPSC2100 The Birth of Modern Science	Science Unit PSYC2015 Brain and Behavioural Psychology	Liberal Arts and Science Ethics Unit HPSC1000 Bioethics
	1	6	6	6	6	24
	2	History Major HSTY2631 Sin City? A History of Sydney	Table S Elective BIOL1007 From Molecules to Ecosystems	Science Unit PSYC2016 Perception, Cognition and Intelligence	Liberal Arts and Science Elective Unit INDG1001 Introduction to Indigenous cultures
	2	6	6	6	6	24
Year 3	1	History Major HSTY3901 History in the Making	History Major HSTY3999 Interdisciplinary Impact	Science Unit PSYC3017 Social Psychology	Liberal Arts and Science Elective Unit GEOS1001 Earth, Environment and Society
	1	6	6	6	6	24
	2	History Major HSTY3902 History Beyond the Classroom	History Major HSTY3903 History and Historians	Science Units PSYC3016 Developmental Psychology	Liberal Arts and Science Elective Unit PHIL2642 Critical Thinking
	2	6	6	6	6	24
Total credit points:						144