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How to Apply
  • Bachelor Degree
  • Duration - 3 Years full-time or part-time equivalent
  • Location - Wantirna
  • Delivery Mode - On Campus, partial online
  • Available to domestic students and overseas students - CRICOS Code: 102321A

Eastern’s Bachelor of Arts is built on the understanding that faith, as well as social and personal values, shapes life, including communities, families, cultures, social and workplaces. 

You’ll discover the interplay between knowledge, values, social justice and more. And you’ll discover how faith is pervasive, powerful, multifaceted, and an enduring dimension of the human experience.

Where will this lead me?

  • Graduates with appropriate majors or minors may continue into the Master of Teaching award.

 

  • Some majors in this award are focused on particular vocational outcomes, and graduates may find employment in those fields.

 

  • Generally, graduates will have a broad educational experience, strong values‐based personal philosophies and will be socially aware and responsible, taking up appropriate employment and service opportunities in the broader community.

COURSE Structure

The Bachelor of Arts degree is composed of 24 units of 6 Credit Points each completed over 3 years full-time equivalent (144 Credit Points in total).

Students undertaking this degree are required to complete one of three options:

  • Option 1
    Core (36 credit points)
    Major (48 credit points)
    Minor (24 credit points)
    Electives (36 credit points)

  • Option 2
    Core (36 credit points)
    Major (48 credit points)
    Minor (24 credit points)
    Minor (24 credit points)
    Electives (12 credit points)

  • Option 3
    Core (36 credit points)
    Major (48 credit points)
    Major (48 credit points)
    Electives (12 credit points)

 

Electives may be units from any undergraduate course offered by the College.

  • Normally, units are taken in the following level order: “500” (Introductory level) then “600” (Intermediate Level) then “700” (Advanced Level).

  • All Students are required to complete 36 credit points in the Christian Foundations core.

  • Students must include at least one major sequence, comprising at least 48 credit points. This sequence must include at least 18 credit points in “700” (Advanced Level).

  • In their course, students must not include more than 60 credit points in “500” (Introductory level) units and must include at least 36 credit points in “700” (Advanced Level) units.

  • Students must not include more than 24 credit points in Practicum (PR) or Industry Engagement (IE) units in the Bachelor degree.

  • Students may not import more than 96 credit points from other institutions.

What Students

are saying

I commenced my academic journey at Eastern College at a transitional and in many ways formative period in my life… Studying at Eastern offered the necessary scope, structure and flexibility to engage with the direction of my research, to hone my craft and repurpose my natural tendency to create through the language of storytelling with a pragmatic and spiritual impetus.
Alissa Piner
The academic expectations of the college exceeded the mere reiteration of ideas of extraneous information... It is because of such that I graduated competent and sure of character, prepared to meet the challenges of postgraduate study, prepared to use my hands to do the good work and despite the seeming smallness of my soul prepared to walk always toward the city of God, which incidentally enough is like wandering further than my front garden toward murky woods and the growing fruitfulness of my life.
Alissa Piner
Enquire Now

Course Outcomes

  • Work and learn collaboratively with colleagues, other professionals and members of the wider community.

  • Demonstrate highly developed skills in oral, written and electronic communication and the ability to communicate research outcomes, and produce scholarly papers informed by a Christian worldview.

  • Demonstrate a broad and coherent body of knowledge in the Arts disciplines, with depth in the underlying principles and concepts in one or more disciplines or areas of practice.

  • Use critical and analytical thinking and judgment in selecting and applying appropriate theories and methodologies to evaluate information and knowledge about society, culture and the arts.

  • Demonstrate an awareness of ethical issues, and social responsibility when engaging in scholarship and professional roles in the local, national or international community.

  • Apply cognitive, technical and creative skills to generate solutions informed by a Christian worldview to unpredictable and sometimes complex problems in the Humanities, Social Sciences and the Creative Arts, including cross-disciplinary approaches.

  • Demonstrate autonomy, responsibility and accountability for personal actions and a continued commitment to learning in personal, professional, and scholarly contexts.

Entry Requirements

All applicants will be required to meet Eastern’s General Entry Requirements.

Applicants with recent secondary education (within the past two years)

  • ATAR Based Admissions
    Satisfactory completion of the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE)* or equivalent obtaining an ATAR score of 60

  • Other Admission Pathways
    Students who had exceptional circumstances in the completion of their secondary studies may be admitted with evidence of difficulties from the secondary institution, medical practitioners and/or other professionals who can attest to the impact upon the prospective student’s ATAR


Applicants with vocational education and training (VET) study

  • Applicants must have completed a Certificate IV or higher


Applicants with higher education study

  • Successful completion of the Diploma in Arts or equivalent level award OR

  • Successful completion of the Associate Degree in Arts or equivalent or equivalent level award OR

  • Other higher education studies (complete or incomplete) that may or may not grant advanced standing

Applicants with work and life experience

  • Mature Age entry for those who have reached the age of 21 is available

Applicants must meet the English language requirements.

Advanced standing, academic credit, recognition of prior learning (RPL)

You may be entitled to credit for prior learning, whether formal or informal. Formal learning can include previous study in higher education, vocational education, or adult and community education. Informal learning can include on the job learning or various kinds of work and life experience. Credit can reduce the amount of study needed to complete a degree.

For further information about credit and recognition of prior learning please see Admissions Information or call the College on 9790 9200 and speak to the Registrar.

Eastern College Australia values the history, culture and languages of First Nations people and we welcome their  participation in all of our courses.

Pathways

Exit Pathways
Students who commence this award may exit with a Diploma in Arts or an Associate Degree in Arts.

 

Articulation Agreements
This course has no formal articulation agreements

 

Pathways to further learning
Completion of this award with the appropriate major(s) and/or minor(s) will allow entry into the Master of Teaching award.

Fees

For a breakdown on the fees for this course please visit our fees page.

Units attached to this course

For a comprehensive list of all units attached to this course see below.

  • AR540 Arts and Creativity
  • AR546 Arts and Spirituality
  • AR641 Creative Practice Foundations: Drawing
  • AR643 Creative Practice Foundations: Painting
  • AR742 Contemporary Drawing Practice
  • AR745 Integrated Art Practice
  • AR746 Aesthetics and the Visual Arts
  • CD520 Community Development and Social Change
  • CD530 Applied Human Rights
  • CD610 Art and Social Action
  • CD622 Art and Community Development
  • CD631 Inequality and Marginalisation
  • CD721 Leading and Organising for Social Change
  • CD730 Gender and Sexuality
  • CD731 Community Advocacy
  • CF501 Living in Christ
  • CF502 Foundations for Faith
  • CF503 Introduction to the Bible
  • CF604 Faith, Reason and Justice
  • CF701 Integration of Vocation and Faith
  • CN510 Introduction to Counselling
  • CN520 Personal Philosophy of Counselling Practice
  • CN602 Common Counselling Issues
  • CN603 Strengths-based Collaborative Approaches to Counselling
  • CN605 Counselling for Addiction
  • CN611 Basic Counselling Skills
  • CN621 Counselling Skills and the Counselling Profession
  • CN701 Family Counselling
  • CN704 Counselling for Crisis, Trauma and Loss
  • DS701 Directed Study
  • DS702 Directed Study 2
  • ED520 Developmental Learning and Pedagogies
  • ED520.306 Developmental Learning and Pedagogies
  • ED521 Educational Decision Making
  • ED521.306 Twenty-first Century Learning and Teaching
  • ED621.306 Ecology and Management of Learning Environments
  • ED622.306 Students with Additional Needs
  • ED623.306 Information Communications Technology and Design
  • ED724.306 Learners, Educators and Social Contexts
  • ED731.306 Curriculum, Assessment, Evidence and Data
  • ED732.306 Professional Identity and Engagement: Ethics and the Law
  • EN503 Literature and Worldview
  • EN504 Right Writing
  • EN601 English Literature: 14th to 18th Century
  • EN602 English Literature: Blake to the Present
  • EN662 Write Creatively
  • EN701 Australian Literature
  • EN735 Reading Great Books
  • EN736 Modern Literature
  • HS501 Early Twentieth Century History: From Chronicling to Understanding
  • HS570 The World We Live In: World History Since 1945
  • HS602 Christian History in a Digital Age
  • HS636 Contact, Conflict and Reconciliation
  • HS670 The World We Live In: World History Since 1945
  • HS701 Silenced Voices Speaking
  • HS702 Writing History
  • HS735 Empires and Globalisation
  • HS737 Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries
  • IE501 Industry Engagement: Exploratory
  • IE601 Industry Engagement: Foundation
  • IE701 Industry Engagement: Capstone
  • MC661 Building a Discipling Culture
  • MC662 Multiplying Missional Leaders
  • MC663 Leading Missional Communities
  • MC764 Leading Kingdom Movements
  • MN621 Leadership 1
  • MN631 Pastoral Care
  • MN638 Congregational Worship and Spirituality
  • MN651 Strategic Communication
  • MT560 Basic Calculus
  • MT580 Statistics for Decision Making
  • MT610 Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations
  • MT640 Linear Algebra with Application
  • MT740 Advanced Calculus
  • MT780 Advanced Statistics
  • PR560 Internship 1
  • PR660 Internship 2
  • PS511 Introduction to Psychology
  • PS602 Human Development: Implications for Counselling
  • PS701 Mental Health for Counselling
  • SS501 Introduction to Sociology
  • SS502 Indigenous Australia and the Nation
  • SS600 Innovative Social Action
  • SS601 Ethical and Professional Practice
  • SS700 Social Research Methods
  • SS701 Social Policy
  • YM501 Spirituality in Youth Ministry
  • YT501 Theories of Youth Work
  • YT541 Youth Work and the Youth Sector
  • YT602 Group Work and Program Design
  • YT603 Youth Rights and Participation
  • YT701 Leadership in Youth Work
  • YT720 Trauma Informed Youth Work

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Get in touch through the enquiry button below if you have any questions, we’re here to help.

Or perhaps you’re ready to step out in faith and submit your application today! We’re excited to begin this next season of your life together.

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  • Bachelor Degree
  • Duration - 3 Years full-time or part-time equivalent
  • Location - Wantirna
  • Delivery Mode - On Campus, partial online
  • Available to domestic students and overseas students - CRICOS Code: 102321A

Eastern’s Bachelor of Arts is built on the understanding that faith, as well as social and personal values, shapes life, including communities, families, cultures, social and workplaces. 

You’ll discover the interplay between knowledge, values, social justice and more. And you’ll discover how faith is pervasive, powerful, multifaceted, and an enduring dimension of the human experience.

Where will this lead me?

  • Graduates with appropriate majors or minors may continue into the Master of Teaching award.

 

  • Some majors in this award are focused on particular vocational outcomes, and graduates may find employment in those fields.

 

  • Generally, graduates will have a broad educational experience, strong values‐based personal philosophies and will be socially aware and responsible, taking up appropriate employment and service opportunities in the broader community.

COURSE Structure

The Bachelor of Arts degree is composed of 24 units of 6 Credit Points each completed over 3 years full-time equivalent (144 Credit Points in total).

Students undertaking this degree are required to complete one of three options:

  • Option 1
    Core (36 credit points)
    Major (48 credit points)
    Minor (24 credit points)
    Electives (36 credit points)

  • Option 2
    Core (36 credit points)
    Major (48 credit points)
    Minor (24 credit points)
    Minor (24 credit points)
    Electives (12 credit points)

  • Option 3
    Core (36 credit points)
    Major (48 credit points)
    Major (48 credit points)
    Electives (12 credit points)

 

Electives may be units from any undergraduate course offered by the College.

  • Normally, units are taken in the following level order: “500” (Introductory level) then “600” (Intermediate Level) then “700” (Advanced Level).

  • All Students are required to complete 36 credit points in the Christian Foundations core.

  • Students must include at least one major sequence, comprising at least 48 credit points. This sequence must include at least 18 credit points in “700” (Advanced Level).

  • In their course, students must not include more than 60 credit points in “500” (Introductory level) units and must include at least 36 credit points in “700” (Advanced Level) units.

  • Students must not include more than 24 credit points in Practicum (PR) or Industry Engagement (IE) units in the Bachelor degree.

  • Students may not import more than 96 credit points from other institutions.

What Students

are saying

I commenced my academic journey at Eastern College at a transitional and in many ways formative period in my life… Studying at Eastern offered the necessary scope, structure and flexibility to engage with the direction of my research, to hone my craft and repurpose my natural tendency to create through the language of storytelling with a pragmatic and spiritual impetus.
Alissa Piner
The academic expectations of the college exceeded the mere reiteration of ideas of extraneous information... It is because of such that I graduated competent and sure of character, prepared to meet the challenges of postgraduate study, prepared to use my hands to do the good work and despite the seeming smallness of my soul prepared to walk always toward the city of God, which incidentally enough is like wandering further than my front garden toward murky woods and the growing fruitfulness of my life.
Alissa Piner
Enquire Now

Course Outcomes

  • Work and learn collaboratively with colleagues, other professionals and members of the wider community.

  • Demonstrate highly developed skills in oral, written and electronic communication and the ability to communicate research outcomes, and produce scholarly papers informed by a Christian worldview.

  • Demonstrate a broad and coherent body of knowledge in the Arts disciplines, with depth in the underlying principles and concepts in one or more disciplines or areas of practice.

  • Use critical and analytical thinking and judgment in selecting and applying appropriate theories and methodologies to evaluate information and knowledge about society, culture and the arts.

  • Demonstrate an awareness of ethical issues, and social responsibility when engaging in scholarship and professional roles in the local, national or international community.

  • Apply cognitive, technical and creative skills to generate solutions informed by a Christian worldview to unpredictable and sometimes complex problems in the Humanities, Social Sciences and the Creative Arts, including cross-disciplinary approaches.

  • Demonstrate autonomy, responsibility and accountability for personal actions and a continued commitment to learning in personal, professional, and scholarly contexts.

Entry Requirements

All applicants will be required to meet Eastern’s General Entry Requirements.

Applicants with recent secondary education (within the past two years)

  • ATAR Based Admissions
    Satisfactory completion of the Victorian Certificate of Education (VCE)* or equivalent obtaining an ATAR score of 60

  • Other Admission Pathways
    Students who had exceptional circumstances in the completion of their secondary studies may be admitted with evidence of difficulties from the secondary institution, medical practitioners and/or other professionals who can attest to the impact upon the prospective student’s ATAR


Applicants with vocational education and training (VET) study

  • Applicants must have completed a Certificate IV or higher


Applicants with higher education study

  • Successful completion of the Diploma in Arts or equivalent level award OR

  • Successful completion of the Associate Degree in Arts or equivalent or equivalent level award OR

  • Other higher education studies (complete or incomplete) that may or may not grant advanced standing

Applicants with work and life experience

  • Mature Age entry for those who have reached the age of 21 is available

Applicants must meet the English language requirements.

Advanced standing, academic credit, recognition of prior learning (RPL)

You may be entitled to credit for prior learning, whether formal or informal. Formal learning can include previous study in higher education, vocational education, or adult and community education. Informal learning can include on the job learning or various kinds of work and life experience. Credit can reduce the amount of study needed to complete a degree.

For further information about credit and recognition of prior learning please see Admissions Information or call the College on 9790 9200 and speak to the Registrar.

Eastern College Australia values the history, culture and languages of First Nations people and we welcome their  participation in all of our courses.

Pathways

Exit Pathways
Students who commence this award may exit with a Diploma in Arts or an Associate Degree in Arts.

 

Articulation Agreements
This course has no formal articulation agreements

 

Pathways to further learning
Completion of this award with the appropriate major(s) and/or minor(s) will allow entry into the Master of Teaching award.

Fees

For a breakdown on the fees for this course please visit our fees page.

Units attached to this course

For a comprehensive list of all units attached to this course see below.

  • AR540 Arts and Creativity
  • AR546 Arts and Spirituality
  • AR641 Creative Practice Foundations: Drawing
  • AR643 Creative Practice Foundations: Painting
  • AR742 Contemporary Drawing Practice
  • AR745 Integrated Art Practice
  • AR746 Aesthetics and the Visual Arts
  • CD520 Community Development and Social Change
  • CD530 Applied Human Rights
  • CD610 Art and Social Action
  • CD622 Art and Community Development
  • CD631 Inequality and Marginalisation
  • CD721 Leading and Organising for Social Change
  • CD730 Gender and Sexuality
  • CD731 Community Advocacy
  • CF501 Living in Christ
  • CF502 Foundations for Faith
  • CF503 Introduction to the Bible
  • CF604 Faith, Reason and Justice
  • CF701 Integration of Vocation and Faith
  • CN510 Introduction to Counselling
  • CN520 Personal Philosophy of Counselling Practice
  • CN602 Common Counselling Issues
  • CN603 Strengths-based Collaborative Approaches to Counselling
  • CN605 Counselling for Addiction
  • CN611 Basic Counselling Skills
  • CN621 Counselling Skills and the Counselling Profession
  • CN701 Family Counselling
  • CN704 Counselling for Crisis, Trauma and Loss
  • DS701 Directed Study
  • DS702 Directed Study 2
  • ED520 Developmental Learning and Pedagogies
  • ED520.306 Developmental Learning and Pedagogies
  • ED521 Educational Decision Making
  • ED521.306 Twenty-first Century Learning and Teaching
  • ED621.306 Ecology and Management of Learning Environments
  • ED622.306 Students with Additional Needs
  • ED623.306 Information Communications Technology and Design
  • ED724.306 Learners, Educators and Social Contexts
  • ED731.306 Curriculum, Assessment, Evidence and Data
  • ED732.306 Professional Identity and Engagement: Ethics and the Law
  • EN503 Literature and Worldview
  • EN504 Right Writing
  • EN601 English Literature: 14th to 18th Century
  • EN602 English Literature: Blake to the Present
  • EN662 Write Creatively
  • EN701 Australian Literature
  • EN735 Reading Great Books
  • EN736 Modern Literature
  • HS501 Early Twentieth Century History: From Chronicling to Understanding
  • HS570 The World We Live In: World History Since 1945
  • HS602 Christian History in a Digital Age
  • HS636 Contact, Conflict and Reconciliation
  • HS670 The World We Live In: World History Since 1945
  • HS701 Silenced Voices Speaking
  • HS702 Writing History
  • HS735 Empires and Globalisation
  • HS737 Radicals, Reformers and Revolutionaries
  • IE501 Industry Engagement: Exploratory
  • IE601 Industry Engagement: Foundation
  • IE701 Industry Engagement: Capstone
  • MC661 Building a Discipling Culture
  • MC662 Multiplying Missional Leaders
  • MC663 Leading Missional Communities
  • MC764 Leading Kingdom Movements
  • MN621 Leadership 1
  • MN631 Pastoral Care
  • MN638 Congregational Worship and Spirituality
  • MN651 Strategic Communication
  • MT560 Basic Calculus
  • MT580 Statistics for Decision Making
  • MT610 Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations
  • MT640 Linear Algebra with Application
  • MT740 Advanced Calculus
  • MT780 Advanced Statistics
  • PR560 Internship 1
  • PR660 Internship 2
  • PS511 Introduction to Psychology
  • PS602 Human Development: Implications for Counselling
  • PS701 Mental Health for Counselling
  • SS501 Introduction to Sociology
  • SS502 Indigenous Australia and the Nation
  • SS600 Innovative Social Action
  • SS601 Ethical and Professional Practice
  • SS700 Social Research Methods
  • SS701 Social Policy
  • YM501 Spirituality in Youth Ministry
  • YT501 Theories of Youth Work
  • YT541 Youth Work and the Youth Sector
  • YT602 Group Work and Program Design
  • YT603 Youth Rights and Participation
  • YT701 Leadership in Youth Work
  • YT720 Trauma Informed Youth Work

Apply Now

Get in touch through the enquiry button below if you have any questions, we’re here to help.

Or perhaps you’re ready to step out in faith and submit your application today! We’re excited to begin this next season of your life together.

Apply Now

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You might be interested in...

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