Whether you want to learn a new language or study a new culture, explore great books, ideas or minds, discover the past, analyse the present or consider the shape of the world's future, the Bachelor of Arts will expand your horizons and challenge you to think outside the box. Offering broad choice across more than 45 subject areas in the humanities and social sciences, no two arts degrees are quite the same. You will study a major and a minor, choosing both from our broad choice across the humanities and social sciences, or selecting your minor from the University's shared pool. Whatever your focus, when you undertake our Bachelor of Arts degree you will be guided by the expertise of an internationally respected group of educators. With arts and humanities at the University of Sydney consistently recognised as among the top 20 faculties globally in academic rankings, our Bachelor of Arts degree is both highly regarded and well supported by research leaders. Politics is the study of the nature of governments and the distribution of power at the domestic level. Gain the knowledge, theoretical understandings, and practical skills that underpin a successful career that engages with politics at the domestic level. You will focus on how individuals participate in and are affected by politics, and how governing bodies that shape peoples' lives make decisions. Compare key elements of political systems including government institutions, political parties, interest groups, elections, patterns of political participation, and social movements. At the end of your study you will be equipped with the key concepts, theories and methods used across the discipline of political science. Key research and teaching areas include: comparative politics: looking at the way politics is conducted in different nations, and the impact of different political systems and structure on the distribution of power in society politics at a domestic level: the study of Australian politics, including the role of political parties and elections, interest groups and social movements, and the position of Australia in its region the policy-making process and the way governments create and implement public policy key issues: elections, political protest, environmental politics, leadership, state economies, constitutions, and differing political systems. As a graduate you will have the skills desired by public, private and non-profit organisations, domestically and in different political contexts across the world. Graduate opportunities Our graduates enter a wide range of careers. Examples include: Advocate and lobbyist Diplomat Foreign affairs adviser International relations and trade Journalist Mediator Speechwriter Political consultant Politician Public policy adviser Researcher Government and NGO professional positions