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The Bachelor of Arts (BA) offers flexibility to pursue your passions through diverse study options tailored to various interests and career aspirations. Your BA journey will equip you with essential knowledge and adaptable skills for tomorrow's job market. Key competencies like effective communication and innovative problem-solving will broaden your opportunities in our rapidly evolving professional landscape. Enhance your career readiness by selecting from our optional theme-focused modules. Opting for a double major provides concentrated expertise while allowing initial exploration across disciplines before specialization. Alternatively, combine your BA with another degree through our conjoint program to master two distinct fields.
As part of your studies, you'll enroll in Academic English Studies (ACADENG) courses at Stage II, specifically designed for non-native English speakers. If your English proficiency requires development, you'll complete Stage I ACADENG courses first. This academic English training integrates with linguistic structure analysis (phonetics, morphology, syntax, and semantics) while introducing fundamental theories of language acquisition and instruction.
Secondary school qualifications
You need to have one of the following:
International Baccalaureate Diploma with a minimum total score of 24.
General Certificate of Education (GCE) Advanced Level. You must have completed a minimum of three A-Level subjects.
Cambridge International Examinations (CIE). You must have completed a minimum of three A-level subjects.
GCE ‘A’ Level requirements apply to ‘A’ Level qualifications examined by bodies such as AQA, OCR, Edexcel, WJEC, CCEA and Pearson Education Limited taken outside of New Zealand.
IELTS (Academic): Overall score of 6.5 and no bands below 5.5; Internet-based TOEFL (iBT): Overall score of 80 and written score of 21; Paper-based TOEFL: Overall score of 60 and a writing score of 21; Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE) or Cambridge English Proficiency (CPE): Overall score of 169 and no bands below 162; Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic: Overall score of 50 and no PTE Communicative score below 42; Foundation Certificate in English for Academic Purposes (FCertEAP): Grade of C-; Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB): 80.