High-achieving students can undertake additional challenging material to enable them to maximise their intellectual growth in the arts high achievers program. It gives you the opportunity to thrive in an environment where students with similar capabilities come together to pursue their studies, develop their interests and share ideas. Develop research skills to prepare you for academia and a range of professions. Visual Arts Explore your creativity through digital media, drawing, painting, photography, printmaking and sculpture. With a major in Visual Arts, you’ll discover the visual arts through the study of art history, visual language, concept development and design. In the Arts stream, you’ll prepare for a future as an artist or working in the visual arts industry. In the Education stream, you’ll focus on the skills you’ll need to teach art and creativity to your students—while uncovering your abilities and building new knowledge. Either way, you’ll learn from practising artists as you develop practical skills alongside theory. Unleash your imagination as you discover new ways to create, and think about, visual art. What you will study Art history and theory Design fundamentals Contemporary issues in visual arts Choose from digital media, drawing, painting, printmaking and sculpture—plus ceramics, jewellery and photography if you choose to study the Bachelor of Arts Your career With enhanced work-ready skills, graduates of the arts high achievers program are prepared to take on a variety of leadership roles. Arts gives you excellent training in clear rigorous thinking, which is highly valued in diverse professions including public service, education and business. Potential occupations include: graduate policy officer youth policy officer intelligence analyst academic administration officer industry analyst. Potential employers include: government agencies tourism businesses banks public and private companies universities community agencies arts organisations