Bachelor of Arts (BA)

Bachelor

Your future starts here. A Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree lets you explore a range of subjects, from politics, philosophy and history, to criminology, anthropology, music, English and more. The Otago BA is designed to be flexible - giving you the freedom to change your major or minor subjects.

Key details

Degree Type

Bachelor

Course Code

BA

About this course

Your future starts here.

A Bachelor of Arts (BA) degree lets you explore a range of subjects, from politics, philosophy and history, to criminology, anthropology, music, English and more. The Otago BA is designed to be flexible - giving you the freedom to change your major or minor subjects.

The BA opens up a diverse range of career pathways - it teaches you critical thinking, and how to harness your imagination and empathy to become a great leader and valued team member in any industry.

Turn your passion into a career. Study a BA at Otago.

Entry requirements

Every programme of study shall satisfy the requirements for prerequisites, corequisites, and restrictions set out in the Prescriptions (published in the Guide to Enrolment).
A candidate with outstanding results in a subject prior to entering the University may be permitted by the Head of Department concerned to enrol for a paper at 200-level without having satisfied the normal prerequisites. In such cases the candidate shall not be credited with the prerequisite papers, but shall be exempted from including those papers in a Major Subject Requirement. A candidate may not, having passed any such paper at 200-level, enrol subsequently for any paper for which the exemption has been given.

Study locations

Dunedin

Credit for prior study or work

A candidate who is enrolled for the degree concurrently with another degree, or who has completed one degree and is proceeding with the other, may cross credit 100- and 200-level papers which are common to both degrees up to a maximum of 126 points where the other degree is a three-year degree and up to a maximum of 180 points where the other degree is longer than a three-year degree.

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