ANU offers an outstanding variety of programs for Australia's next generation of language leaders, with more languages offered than at any other university in Australia. The ANU Bachelor of Languages is a wonderful way to take advantage of that, through the study of two (or more) languages, in combination with other areas of interest.

Your language education experience is designed to engage you with the structural, grammatical and idiomatic components of your chosen language or languages. This is further contextualised using cultural, social and historical concepts, issues and topics. You can start at beginning level, or at higher levels if you have past experience. Exciting opportunities exist for you to immerse yourself in your chosen language and culture through study abroad, and to combine your language study with a range of other areas.

When undertaking the Bachelor of Visual Arts at the ANU, you will be immersed in a program of rigorous scholarship and intensive studio practice, tailored to your aspirations and informed by internationally renowned art practitioners within Australia’s top-ranking university. You will graduate with the essential creative skills and critical knowledge to address the grand challenges of a rapidly changing world.

You will develop deep disciplinary knowledge and learn specialist skills offered across the School of Art and Design studio disciplines, including ceramics, glass, painting, photography and media arts, printmedia and drawing, sculpture and spatial practice, and textiles. You will extend your study through access to courses in the Centre for Art History and Art Theory, combined with access to electives from across the ANU.

Employment Opportunities

Graduates may find work in diplomacy, trade, defence, translation, journalism, language analysis, language teaching, tourism, trade and many other fields.

Graduates may find work in diplomacy, trade, defence, translation, journalism, language analysis, language teaching, tourism, trade and many other fields.

Learning Outcomes

1. communicate proficiently and confidently in at least one language
2. identify the structure and uses of languages studied
3. recognise and contrast the societies and cultures of the languages chosen, and their socio-historical context
4. construct a global schema of the connections between the languages studied and their geographical, social and cultural origins
5. recognise the importance and value of intercultural communication.

1. apply technical skills and specialist knowledge to realise artworks, artefacts and related forms of creative expression;
2. demonstrate skills and knowledge of the practices, languages, forms, materials, technologies and techniques in the visual arts;
3. recognise and reflect on social, cultural and ethical issues, and apply historical and theoretical perspectives to practice in the visual arts;
4. develop, express and evaluate ideas, concepts and processes by thinking creatively, critically and reflectively;
5. interpret, communicate and present ideas, problems and arguments in modes suited to a range of audiences; and
6. work independently and collaboratively in response to project demands.

Admission Requirements

Adjustment Factors

Adjustment factors are additional points added to an applicant's Selection Rank (for example an applicant's ATAR). ANU offers adjustment factors based on performance and equity principles, such as for high achievement in nationally strategic senior secondary subjects and for recognition of difficult circumstances that students face in their studies. 

Selection Rank adjustments are granted in accordance with the approved schedules, and no more than 15 (maximum 5 subject/performance-based adjustment factors and maximum 10 equity-based adjustment factors) can be awarded. 

You may be considered for adjustment factors if you have:

• applied for an eligible ANU Bachelor degree program
• undertaken Australian Year 12 or the International Baccalaureate
• achieved an ATAR or equivalent at or above 70
• not previously attempted tertiary study.

Please visit the ANU Adjustment Factors website for further information.

Scholarships

ANU offers a wide range of scholarships to students to assist with the cost of their studies.

Eligibility to apply for ANU scholarships varies depending on the specifics of the scholarship and can be categorised by the type of student you are.  Specific scholarship application process information is included in the relevant scholarship listing.

For further information see the Scholarships website.

Program Requirements

The Bachelor of Languages flexible double degree component requires completion of 96 units, of which:

A maximum of 36 units may come from completion of 1000-level courses

The 96 units must consist of:

Either

48 units from completion of one of the following language majors:

Ancient Greek

Arabic

Chinese Language

French Language and Culture

German Language and Culture

Hindi Language

Indonesian Language

Italian Language and Culture

Japanese Language

Korean Language

Latin

Persian

Sanskrit Language

Spanish

Thai Language

Vietnamese Language

OR

24 units from completion of the one of the following advanced minors

Advanced Ancient Greek

Advanced Arabic

Advanced Chinese Language

Advanced French Studies

Advanced German Studies

Advanced Italian Studies

Advanced Japanese Language

Advanced Korean Language 

Advanced Latin

Advanced Persian

Advanced Sanskrit Language

Advanced Spanish Studies

24 units from courses available in:

• the International Communication Major 
• the Advanced Minor
• the following language minors, which must be in a different language to the Advanced Minor:

Advanced English Language

Ancient Greek

Arabic

Burmese Language

Chinese Language

French Language and Culture

German Language and Culture

Hindi Language

Indonesian Language

Italian Language and Culture

Japanese Language

Japanese Linguistics

Korean Language

Latin

Literary Chinese

Mongolian Language

Persian

Russian

Sanskrit Language

Spanish

Tetum Language

Thai Language

Tok Pisin Language

Vietnamese Language

24 units from completion of one of the following language minors, which must be in a different language to the major or advanced minor from the list above:

Advanced Ancient Greek

Advanced Arabic

Advanced Chinese Language

Advanced English Language

Advanced French Studies

Advanced German Studies

Advanced Italian Studies

Advanced Japanese Language

Advanced Korean Language 

Advanced Latin

Advanced Persian

Advanced Sanskrit Language

Advanced Spanish Studies

Literary Chinese

Ancient Greek

Arabic

Burmese Language

Chinese Language

French Language and Culture

German Language and Culture

Hindi Language

Indonesian Language

Italian Language and Culture

Japanese Language

Japanese Linguistics

Korean Language

Latin

Mongolian Language

Persian

Russian

Sanskrit Language

Spanish

Tetum Language

Thai Language

Tok Pisin Language

Vietnamese Language

A minimum of 12 units and maximum of 18 units from completion of courses in the Linguistics major

A minimum of 6 units and maximum of 12 units from completion of courses in any of the following majors:

Asian Studies

Australian Indigenous Studies

Computer Science 

Contemporary Europe

English

International Communication

Mathematical Modelling

Mathematics

Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies

Pacific Studies

The Bachelor of Visual Arts flexible double degree component requires completion of 96 units, of which:

A maximum of 48 units may come from completion of 1000-level courses

The 96 units must include:

36 units from completion of the following compulsory courses:

ARTH1006 Art History and Curatorial Studies 1: Cultures and Meaning

ARTH1007 Art History and Curatorial Studies 2: Vision and Materiality

ARTV1034 Foundations of Contemporary Arts Practices

ARTV3033 Creative Research Practice: Developing an Independent Work Proposal

ARTV3035 Creative Research Practice: Extending and Consolidating an Independent Project (12 units)

A minimum of 12 units from completion of ARTV 1000-level courses, and/or courses from the following list:

DESN1002 Visual Communication: Design and Production

DESN1003 Contemporary Design in Context

DESN1005 Precise Drawing and Model Making

A minimum of 18 units from completion of ARTV 2000-level courses, and/or courses from the following list:

ARTV3507 Open to Influence: Studio Research

DESN2001 Digital Form and Fabrication

DESN2002 Foundations of Creative Code

DESN2003 Creative Data Visualisation: Representing Data in Visual and Material Form

DESN2004 Autonomous Agents

DESN2006 Front-end Web: Crafting online experience

DESN2007 Design Fiction: Speculative and Critical Design

DESN2009 Typography in Context

DESN2010 Making Creative and Critical Technologies: Physical Computing for Art & Design

DESN2012 The Ethics of Making: Design for Reuse and Repair

DESN2015 Supporting Bodies: Now that we’re here, where do we sit?

MEDN2222 Exquisite Corpse - Insight into the Human Body

6 units from completion of an engagement course from the following list:

ARTV2027 Professional Practice: Economies and Ecologies in the Australian Cultural Sector

ARTV2028 Professional Practices: Internship

ARTV2909 The Public Project: engagement strategies for artists, designers, institutions and communities

ARTV2921 Environment Studio: Field based Research and Studio Practice in Visual Arts

Majors

Bachelor of Languages Majors

Minors

Bachelor of Languages Minors

Bachelor of Visual Arts Minors

Study Options