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Overview

Explore what’s possible when you study visual arts at La Trobe. Pursue your artistic passion and develop your creative thinking with a huge range of majors, minors and electives.

  • Get real-world experience through internships and work experience programs locally or internationally.
  • Tailor your degree with majors, minors and electives from more than 50 interest areas.
  • Learn from experts in world-class facilities and see where it can take you.
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TOP 50

universities in the Asia-Pacific

17.5%

projected job growth for visual arts and crafts professionals until 2026

86.5%

La Trobe undergraduates found employment within four months of graduation

Quality Indicators for Learning and Teaching (QILT) 2021

Possible careers

After graduation, you could pursue a variety of rewarding careers across a range of industries, including the arts, government and not-for-profit sectors. Your choice of majors and minors will guide the career paths available to you.

Design and deliver projects and programs to improve the quality of life for communities and disadvantaged populations.

Develop written content for websites, blogs, emails, videos, and marketing campaigns.

Design exhibitions, manage art collections and take a lead role in supporting community engagement with the arts.

Work with communities to deliver cultural programs, exhibitions and projects.

Explore Visual Arts

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A woman in a pottery classroom making a clay pot.
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Visual Arts courses

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