Graduate Diploma in Arts major in History

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You can study different cultures, regions, themes and time periods to gain an appreciation of the lives and experiences of people in the past. You can also understand how societies have changed over time.
Study opportunities include New Zealand history, Māori and Indigenous histories, pre-modern and modern Europe, American history and the histories of Asia, Australia and the Pacific.

You can choose from courses which focus on a variety of themes, cultures, regions and time periods. You can study New Zealand history, Māori and Indigenous histories, European history, American history and the histories of Asia, Australia and the Pacific.

You will learn both historical content and historical skills: critical and creative thinking, and the ability to research, assess, interpret and present historical information.

Our graduates have careers in government, museums, the public service, business, teaching and libraries, and as researchers with the Waitangi Tribunal, Office of Treaty Settlements, and Manatū Taonga/Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Others have continued their study of history at institutions such as Harvard University and the University of Oxford.

Complete 120 points comprising:

45 points from Bachelor of Arts major in History Stage III Courses, and
At least 15 points from Additional Courses from the Bachelor of Arts major in History, and
0 to 60 points from Courses from the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Schedules

Selected courses must include at least 75 points at level 300 or higher.

Bachelor of Arts major in History Stage III Courses

Complete exactly 45 points from the following:

ANCIENT 355 - The Later Roman Empire (15 points)

ARTHIST 325 - Imaging the Renaissance (15 points)

HISTORY 300 - Thinking History: Approaches to the Past (15 points)

HISTORY 308 - African-American Freedom Struggles: USA 1900-2000 (15 points)

HISTORY 309 - Bloodlands: Global Warfare (15 points)

HISTORY 317 - Nazi Germany and its Legacies (15 points)

HISTORY 318 - Special Topic (15 points)

HISTORY 324 - Old Regime and Revolution in France c.1750-1815 (15 points)

HISTORY 327 - Waitangi: Treaty to Tribunal (15 points)

HISTORY 333 - Australian History Since 1788 (15 points)

HISTORY 335 - Samurai and Scholars: Early Modern China and Japan (15 points)

HISTORY 339 - Medieval Cultures: Faith, Power, Identities (15 points)

HISTORY 341 - Making Sense of the Sixties: the USA 1954-1974 (15 points)

HISTORY 350 - The Global Cold War (15 points)

HISTORY 352 - New Zealand Cultural History (15 points)

HISTORY 356 - Body and Blood: Religious Cultures and Conflicts c.50-1650 (15 points)

HISTORY 357 - Progress and Poverty: The USA, 1877-1919 (15 points)

HISTORY 359 - Special Topic: Capitalism and Consumerism in United States History (15 points)

HISTORY 367 - Health, Medicine and Society (15 points)

HISTORY 370 - Ireland since 1798 (15 points)

HISTORY 371 - Atlantic Revolutions (15 points)

HUMS 300 - Critiquing the Museum (15 points)

MAORI 396 - Tikanga: Ancestral Ways (15 points)

PACIFIC 314 - Pacific History: New Zealand in the Pacific from 1900 (15 points)

Additional Courses from the Bachelor of Arts major in History

Complete at least 15 points from the following:

HIST-BA - Bachelor of Arts major in History (120 points)

Courses from the Bachelor of Arts or Bachelor of Arts (Honours) Schedules

Complete 0 to 60 points from the following:

BA - Bachelor of Arts (360 points)

BA(Hons) - Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (120 points)