At the end of their three-year course students graduate with a BA (Professional Writing and Communication). It is a degree in which they undertake required foundation studies in Communication: Rhetoric and Reasoning, Introduction to Computers and Information Management, Media Culture and Society, and Australian State and Society. They also complete a general studies sub-major in a discipline area (e.g. Sociology, Gender Studies, Children's Literature, Australian Studies, Performing Arts) and a cognate study (e.g. Communication Studies, Multi Media Studies, Film and Media Studies, a Language or if they wish additional subjects in Writing and Communication). Unless students seek a cross-institutional study with another university they are not able to take a sub-major in what was traditionally English or Literary studies - the territory which has often excited them in their secondary school experience.
In the major of eight subjects over three years, students undertake compulsory studies in an introductory writing workshop, linguistics, sociolinguistics, writing and literacy research in community and workplace, and professional and technical writing . They may take options in writing and reading the short story, autobiography and biography, poetry, the essay (including travel writing, personal commentary, etc.), editing and publishing, advanced writing workshop, script writing and other areas.