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AN INTRODUCTION TO THE FACULTY OF ARTS AND SCIENCES The Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Australian Catholic University offers courses leading to awards at both undergraduate and postgraduate level at the University's six campuses, and in Hong Kong, within the specialisations of the liberal and creative arts, the social sciences, the natural sciences, informatics and business. The Faculty comprises a Sub-Faculty of Business and Informatics, a Sub-Faculty of Philosophy and Theology, and Schools of Arts and Sciences, Psychology and Social Work with staff working in a wide range of discipline areas including Australian studies, Asian studies, behavioural science, biblical studies, business, church history and patristics, drama, economics, environmental science, ethics, geography, history, information technology, literature, mathematics, media, music, philosophy, psychology, social science, social work, technology studies, theology, and visual arts. Listed in the following pages are the courses, the awards to which they lead, the campuses where they are offered and the Schools of the Faculty responsible for the courses. The Faculty accepts the intrinsic worth of liberal studies to the individual and to society at large and seeks to offer undergraduate, and postgraduate courses that are both challenging academically and responsive to society's rapidly changing demands. Through its courses it seeks to prepare its students to think critically, informed by their studies and the goals set out in the Mission Statement of the University, especially the aim 'to be a community characterised by free inquiry and academic integrity'. The Faculty aims to produce graduates who are well-equipped to serve the wider community in its ethical, cultural, scientific and commercial development. Our graduates are achieving this in a broad range of occupations. They are found in management and administration, in advertising, public relations, business and commerce, social work, the church, private enterprise, journalism, teaching and community services. The Faculty is a community of scholars committed to the goals of expanding human knowledge and deepening human understanding. To these ends, it actively encourages and supports the production of scholarly research and creative works by its staff and students. Faculty staff supervise students enrolled in research degrees of MPhil and PhD and in professional doctorates. We invite those who are already graduates to consider such possibilities at this University. If you are about to undertake tertiary studies for the first time, and are reading this guide as an aid in selecting a field of tertiary study, you are about to embark on a great intellectual adventure. Whatever you choose to do, I wish you well and I assure you of a warm welcome from the staff and later-year students of the Faculty.
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