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The Bachelor of Arts offers the flexibility to pursue your passions across diverse academic disciplines. You'll have access to an extensive selection of study options designed to accommodate various interests and professional aspirations. Your BA education cultivates essential knowledge and abilities to prepare you for evolving career landscapes. Skills like effective communication and innovative problem-solving will broaden your prospects in our rapidly changing workforce. Enhance your professional toolkit with our elective, theme-oriented modules. A double major provides concentrated expertise while allowing you to investigate multiple subjects before specialization. Alternatively, combine your BA with another qualification through our conjoint degree options.
Our curriculum spans numerous thematic areas, cultural perspectives, geographical regions, and historical eras. Study options include New Zealand's past, Māori and indigenous histories, European developments, American narratives, and the rich histories of Asia, Australia, and the Pacific. The program emphasizes both historical knowledge and methodological skills: fostering analytical reasoning, research proficiency, and the capacity to evaluate, interpret, and communicate historical findings.
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.
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 6.0 and no bands below 5.5; Internet based TOEFL (iBT): Overall score of 80 and a written score of 21; Paper-based TOEFL: Overall score of 60 and a writing score of 21; Cambridge English: Advanced (CAE), Cambridge English Proficiency (CPE): Overall score of 169 and no bands below 162; Foundation Certificate in English for Academic Purposes (FCertEAP): Grade of C-; Pearson Test of English (PTE) Academic: Overall score of 50 and no PTE Communicative score below 42; Michigan English Language Assessment Battery (MELAB): 80.