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Study Arts
and Social Sciences

A vigorous, broad, flexible education in an open, supportive community leading to a professional career grounded in Christian faith.
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Study Arts
and Social Sciences

A vigorous, broad, flexible education in an open, supportive community leading to a professional career grounded in Christian faith.
Explore Courses
Choosing to study the arts and social sciences is to open the door to a broader, more complex, more beautiful world than you’ve seen before. You’ll learn to think more deeply, see with more clarity and understand more fully.

Eastern Arts and Social Sciences graduates gain respected qualifications and accreditations. Professional training is grounded in Christian faith with an understanding of a variety of worldviews. As you learn, you’ll enjoy being part of a vibrant Christian community, and benefit from the College’s understanding of you as an individual, and flexibility around your study needs.

Counselling is an area of specialty at Eastern. We have strong links with a wide range of community and church based counselling organisations. We have our own centre of excellence: The Centre for Theology and Psychology. We’re committed to learning with and from the best practitioners. In fact, many of them teach in our programs.

Everywhere in the world are ordinary people willing to confront despair, power and incalculable odds in order to restore some semblance of grace, justice and beauty to this world. – Paul Hawkin

Areas of Interest

Certificate IV in Chaplaincy and Pastoral Care

Looking for a change in direction or wanting to upskill? This course also leads to chaplaincy qualifications.

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Want to upskill in pastoral care or chaplaincy?

Want to support people through counselling?

Bachelor of Applied Social Sciences

(Specialising in Counselling)

Become a professional counsellor.

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Master of Community Counselling

Deepen and broaden your perspectives as a counselling practitioner.

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Diploma in Arts

A great launching pad for exploring and preparing for your future career in teaching, counselling or ministry.

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Bachelor of Arts

Develop an understanding of the integration and interplay of Christian faith, knowledge and social justice.

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Graduate Certificate in Arts

Engage with new ideas, changes and challenges to strengthen your vocation or personal growth.

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Graduate Diploma in Arts

Engage with new ideas, changes and challenges to strengthen your vocation or personal growth.

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Want to get a broad humanities education?

Want to
grow as a transformational leader in your community?

Master of Transformational Development

Real world skills and knowledge help meet local and global community development needs.

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Pathways to Study

Not ready or don’t have the entry requirements for your chosen course?

Consider the Diploma of Arts as a pathway

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What Students

are saying

Being at Eastern has been more than just coming to do a unit of study. It's been a relationship with teachers and other students. My course has been really flexible the whole time, which has been great for me. The support of the teachers has been fantastic. I've always felt like a person! I can't imagine who I would be without Eastern College.
Tara Harkness
The expertise at Eastern is amazing, and the care, but also that it’s really purpose-focused and driven. As well as the importance of faith being relevant in the world and being able to have an impact.
Kirsten Hampson
I have found the Master of Transformational Development program to be an excellent framework for integrating aid and development practice and Christian faith. I have been challenged intellectually and spiritually, enabling me to engage in holistic living and ministry with more integrity and grace. The approach to study provides a rich environment for grappling with issues and developing a lived theology.
Christine GobiusNational Director of Interserve Australia
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The Eastern Difference

What's Unique about Eastern?

Integrate
your faith & career

Our teaching, training and research is grounded in a Christian worldview, challenging students to think about what it means to be a person of faith within their chosen vocation.

Space to explore & develop

Learning alongside others within a vibrant Christian community leads to transformative growth in faith, identity, character and calling.

Accessible, supportive faculty

Eastern’s lecturers and trainers look out for you, understand you, and treat you as an individual.

Great
job
outcomes

In a recent survey, 93.9% of Eastern graduates found employment compared to the national average of 85.6%

Source: compared.edu.au

Quality of Entire Educational Experience of Higher Education providers

Eastern College Australia scored 95.5% for the overall experience, with exceptional results for our quality of teaching and student support.

Student Experience Survey 2020. SES is an initiative of the Australian Government Department of Education, Skills and Employment.

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IS AFFILIATED WITH

Christian Counsellors Association of Australia (CCAA)

Australian Community Counsellors Association (ACCA)

Australian Counselling Association (ACA)

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We acknowledge the Wurundjeri People as the traditional custodians of God’s land on which Eastern College Australia stands, and pay our respects to their elders past and present, and our support for the emerging leaders of the future.

Eastern College Australia provides teaching, training and research from a Christian worldview that contributes to the church and the flourishing of humanity through the lives of its graduates.

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