The Diploma of Arts provides you with opportunities to interpret human culture and behaviour from different perspectives and periods. Your studies will explore today's big questions. You'll learn how to support the social and economic development of the human race and/or to be immersed in creativity, performance and innovation. This award is designed to allow you to choose your path: it can be the first year of your Bachelor of Arts study, or you may enrol in this degree to pursue your passion and undertake one of the majors in the Bachelor of Arts, or if you decide you would like to extend your curiosity and try units from a number of disciplines. The Diploma of Arts gives you the flexibility to choose from a wide range of subjects with over twenty named majors and minors, you can select subjects to build your knowledge, and electives to enhance your skills.<br><br>Studying Philosophy allows you to ask (and occasionally answer) the very biggest of questions. What makes for a meaningful life What can we know What is the nature of the world, or of ourselves in it What kind of societies are just Philosophy explores fundamental questions about the human condition, relevant for people at all times and in all places, but equally arising out of the specifics of each life whether in Tasmania or anywhere else. It considers problems and concerns arising from art, literature, science, law, religion, and many other human endeavors, along with the basic matter of an ethical engagement with the world. Philosophy also gives you skills in analysis, reasoning, and clear and cogent communication highly valued attributes across all study areas in the Bachelor of Arts as well as contemporary professions.