Master of Indigenous Studies

Take your undergraduate degree in Māori Studies, Pacific Studies, or Education to the next level, or get a qualification that underpins your career supporting Māori and indigenous communities here or overseas.

Ethical, respectful, culturally appropriate

You’ll learn to debate and negotiate indigenous issues in a persuasive, sophisticated, culturally appropriate, and respectful manner. Explore indigenous perspectives on sustainable development, resource management, governance, language, education, economics, or science.

Deepen your understanding of the ethical responsibilities of indigenous research, and conceptualise and articulate your knowledge of indigenous political and cultural relationships. The Master of Indigenous Studies Program is offered at the Victoria University of Wellington .

Courses included:

• Ta Te Maori Rangahau/Methodology of Maori Research

• Theory and Methods in Pacific Studies

• Research as Praxis: Indigenous Perspectives

• Invasive Species, Biosecurity and Law

• Research as Praxis: Indigenous Perspectives

• Education, Development and Change in Aotearoa

• Education for the Indigenous People of the Pacific

• Critical Pedagogies of Place

• Special Topic: Place, Space and Identity

• Māori Literature in History