Some of the courses you complete will form your extended major, majors or minor.

The key difference between majors, extended majors and minors is how many courses you will need to take from those disciplines to complete them.

Within the BA. You can choose from one of two structures:

•  Two single majors
•  One extended major and a minor

You can only select up to only 32 units of the same discipline descriptor (e.g. POLSXXXX or HISTXXXX).

Within your major, there are compulsory courses, which you must pass to complete your major, and elective courses, which you can select to form the rest of your major.

The final element to your BA is your general electives. These are individual courses of your choice that can be selected from the BA course list or other undergraduate course lists. Students enrolled in a BA program will usually complete 16 units of electives.

Make sure you read the program requirements to ensure you understand the requirements of your degree.

At UQ, a standard full-time workload is 16 units over the year – this breaks down to 8 units (or four courses) each semester.

Please use the PDF below for the year in which you commenced your Bachelor of Arts (BA) program to draft an enrolment plan. This planner should be read in conjunction with your program requirements (select your year of commencement from the dropdown box).

• Semester 1 and 2, 2024
• Semester 2, 2023

You don’t have to decide what courses you want to do for your whole program at the start of your first semester – we only ask you to choose courses one year at a time.

So, all you need to worry about at this stage is choosing four courses for your first semester and second semester, taking into account all compulsory core courses.

The Starting at UQ website provides a guide for completing your enrolment.

HASS has prepared study planners to assist international students who have credit agreements with UQ.

Transferring from the BA to another UQ degree

You can transfer from the BA into one of the below programs, and some of them can be studied alongside your BA. The below planners have been designed to assist students looking to commence study in 2023 and transfer programs in 2024:

• Bachelor of Arts to Bachelor of Occupational Therapy (Honours)
• Bachelor of Arts to Bachelor of Physiotherapy (Honours)
• Bachelor of Arts to Bachelor of Psychological Science (Honours)
• Bachelor of Arts to Bachelor of Speech Pathology (Honours)
• Bachelor of Arts to Bachelor of Science 
• Bachelor of Arts to Bachelor of Economics
• Bachelor of Arts to Bachelor of Business Management
• Bachelor of Arts to Bachelor of Commerce
• Bachelor of Arts to Bachelor of Laws (Honours)

To transfer from the BA to another undergraduate program within the Faculty, please seek advice from our Student Administration team.