Foundation Studies Program (Standard) - Arts (X0F:1) (0100808) + Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Laws - History (93A) (102979C)

The double degree allows students to deepen their knowledge and expertise within two separate study areas. This means students can choose from University of Tasmania’s range of exciting, diverse courses and they can embark on a journey as unique as they are.

At the University of Tasmania, students will be part of an academic community that cares deeply about the topics that they teach and study.

Students will learn to influence cultural and social change, and students will gain the knowledge and creativity to envision better futures. Students will take on the world’s cultural, environmental, and humanitarian challenges from multiple perspectives and gain the confidence to make a positive difference. In first year, students will have the opportunity to visit Country with an Aboriginal Elder or knowledge holder as part of the University of Tasmania's curriculum's reflection of the value and place of Indigenous knowledges and perspectives.

The Bachelor of Arts will equip students with a range of specialised and transferable skills that are highly sought after by employers: creative thinking, respect for multiple perspectives, and the ability to work effectively in a team environment.

To study law is to understand the importance of social justice and using the law to improve the health of  society and this planet. It is about developing high-level skills in legal techniques and a sensitivity to the way that those skills can be used to advance a range of interests. By learning to understand law as both a local and transnational affair, the commonalities amongst law and legal systems, as well as how context can shape laws and legal culture, students open doors to diverse careers in the practice of law in Australia and globally.

Students who choose to study law at the University of Tasmania, the journey is more extraordinary because the lines between study, research and professional practice often dissolve. Drawing on the University of Tasmania’s strong tradition of close engagement with the Tasmanian legal profession and their network of practitioner alumni, students will have opportunities to engage with the judiciary, senior practitioners, leaders from government and industry and key legal institutions from their first year.

The University of Tasmania’s island campus provides ideal opportunities to learn from world-leaders in Environmental, Antarctic, Marine and Climate Law. Their law school hosts the Tasmanian Law Reform Institute, enabling students to contribute to law reform, particularly in relation to criminal law. Students will also develop global perspectives on some of the great challenges in society - gene-editing and the legal regulation of biotechnology, the regulation of armed conflict and the prosecution of war crimes.

In the History program, students will understand the whole world by understanding the long-term changes and continuities that shaped today. Historical knowledge is a vital component of cultural literacy, broadens student’s mind, fosters the capacity for empathy and equips one to be a global citizen. Historians are like very open-minded detectives: questioning, analysing and interpreting evidence from the past. When someone cries 'fake news', students will have the skills to find evidence from a range of sources to reconsider the claims of the present. They will also have the inexplicable joy of encountering the unexpected and the unknown. It has never been more urgent to understand the past so that we have the ability to make new futures.

Through the History program at the University of Tasmania students will gain a sophisticated sense of their location in time and place, and will become skilled in historical research, critical analysis and communication of ideas. Students will develop skills in researching a variety of historical evidence that is becoming increasingly accessible in digital forms. Students will learn to analyse sources and issues, and fluently express their ideas in discussions, essays and other forms of communication.