The Faculty of Arts and Education is a newly created Faculty at Charles Sturt University. It builds on the strengths of the previous Faculties of Education and Arts and has significant opportunities to realise new learning, research and community engagement synergies. With over 9000 online and 3000 internal students, the Faculty is an innovator in online and blended learning modes, across its on-campus and online education courses. In the Faculty of Arts and Education our specialities are performing and visual arts, art history, communications, human services, library and information studies, theology, sociology, literature, philosophy, history, Indigenous Australian studies, education, teacher education, Islamic studies and civilisation.