Graduate Diploma in Arts - Victoria University of Wellington

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Victoria’s Graduate Diploma in Arts (GradDipArts) is a uniquely flexible qualification catering for students from a wide variety of backgrounds and
needs. It enables you to devise your own course of study, selecting from an extensive range of courses from different disciplines at different levels.

The GradDipArts is a one-year full-time, or up to four years part-time, programme in which you choose your own courses to create a qualification which exactly suits your needs. Courses are chosen from the wide range offered by the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and courses from other
Faculties may also be selected.

Entry to the Diploma programme is open to graduates from any Faculty and, in certain circumstances, to non-graduates with appropriate training and experience.

The Diploma’s uniquely flexible structure can answer a number of different learning needs:

• You can specialise at an advanced level in areas not included in your first degree. The GradDipArts is often taken by graduates who wish to acquire the equivalent of a further major in another subject, frequently so that they can then enrol in an Honours degree.
• Graduates of longer standing can learn about developments in their original disciplines.
• In some cases, GradDipArts graduates well-qualified in a particular subject can enrol for an MA by thesis in that subject without a BA(Hons) degree. If you are planning to proceed to an MA, it is advisable to include an Honours research course in your GradDipArts programme, and, before you enrol, find out from your School and the Faculty if this alternative entry route to the MA will be approved.
  

GradDipArts requirements

The courses you select must make up a coherent programme of study and total at least 116 points at 200 to 500 level. At least 72 points must be at 300 level or above, and at least 46 points must be in a subject offered as a BA major, or a postgraduate discipline offered by the Faculty.
Note: 200-level courses are normally 22 points each and 300-level, 24 points; full 400-level courses are worth 30 points.

Humanities and Social Sciences subjects

Victoria’s Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences teaches a wide range of subjects for a BA, and the Faculty’s Schools offer majors in the following: Anthropology, Architectural Studies, Art History, Asian Languages, Asian Studies, Chinese, Classical Studies, Criminology, English Language, English Literature, English Studies, European Studies, Film, French, German, Greek, History, International Relations, Italian, Japanese, Latin, Linguistics, Mäori Resource Management, Mäori Studies, Media Studies, Modern Languages, Music Studies, Pacific Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Religious Studies, Samoan Studies, Second Language Education, Social Policy, Sociology, Spanish, Te Reo Mäori, and Theatre. There are also other BA majors offered by Schools in other Faculties.

Additional subjects offered at postgraduate level by the Faculty are Applied Linguistics, Museum and Heritage Studies, New Zealand Studies and TESOL.

The following examples may give you ideas for putting together a programme of study that meets your interests.

Asian Studies

ASIA 201 Contemporary Asian Society
JAPA 201 Japanese Language 2
ASIA 301 Selectected Topics in the Study of Asia
INTP 354 International Relations of East Asia
ASIA 403 Asia and Europe

Classical Studies

ARTH 216 Byzantine and Medieval Art
RELI 225 Religious Art and Architecture: Imaging the Divine East and West
CLAS 308 Greek Society
CLAS 309 Bronze Age Aegean Art and Archaeology
CLAS 311 Myth and Storytelling

Criminology

CRIM 211 Introduction to Criminological Thought
CRIM 312 Punishment and Modern Society
CRIM 316 Criminological Theory
CRIM 318 Special Topic: Sexual Violence
SACS 301 Methods in Social and Cultural Research

European Studies

POLS 205 The New Europe
EURO 301 The Making of Modern Europe
HIST 330 Dissent and Resistance in Europe in the 19th and 20th Centuries
EURO 401 Europe and New Zealand
EURO 403 Asia and Europe

Film*

PHIL 270 Philosophy of Film
FILM 331 Film Analysis
FILM 333 National Cinema A
FILM 403 National Cinema: Aotearoa New Zealand
FILM 405 Scriptwriting
*Most FILM courses are limited entry and have an early closing date.

Mäori Studies

MAOR 213 Te Kawa o te Marae/Marae Etiquette and Protocol
MAOR 311 Tiri Te Wana Wana/Mäori Language 3
MAOR 313 Ngä Tikanga Tuku Iho/Mäori Customary Concepts
MAOR 408 Tä Te Mäori Rangahau/Methodology of Mäori Research
MAOR 489 Kaupapa Rangahau/Research Essay

Pacific Studies

HIST 219 Pacific History
PASI 201 Comparative History in Polynesia
PASI 301 Framing the Pacific: Theorising Culture and Society
SAMO 302 Interpreting and Translation
PASI 403 New Zealand Policy and Pacific People

Social Policy

POLS 235 Institutions and the Policy Process
GEND 301 Gender Analysis of Economic and Social Policy
SPOL 304 Special Topic: Social Movements, Interest Groups and Social Policy
SPOL 306 Social Inequality
SPOL 309 Social Policy and the Family