Course details

Summary

If you already have a science-related qualification, this graduate diploma will allow you to fast track towards a future specialising in oenology (wine science). You have options to study full-time on campus or part-time by distance (February & July intake). Students studying by distance will be required to attend compulsory residential schools in Hawkes Bay each year. This programme is designed to build on your knowledge from prior degree study or from significant industry experience by focusing on scientific, technical and managerial aspects of grape growing and wine making.

This graduate-level programme builds on your knowledge of science from prior degree study or from significant industry experience by focusing on scientific, technical and managerial aspects of grape growing and winemaking. The subject areas you’ll study include:

• General and Inorganic Chemistry
• Winemaking Science and Practice
• Microbiology or Engineering Physics
• Sensory Science
• Wine Microbiology or Winery Engineering
• Wine Sensory Assessment
• Wine Chemistry

Career Opportunities & Outcomes

This graduate diploma will give you a competitive advantage over other graduates and will help you advance within your chosen field of oenology (wine science). Once awarded the Graduate Diploma in Oenology you’ll be able to take on roles such as:

• Assistant winemaker
• Winemaker
• Technical adviser
• Winery enterprise manager
• Senior cellar person

Entry criteria

Applicants must be over 18 years of age on 1 February of the year they apply for entry into this programme. Applicants under 18 years may be provisionally accepted into the programme but restricted in which courses they are enrolled in until they turn 18 years of age.

Applicants must have completed a three year degree or equivalent qualification or be able to demonstrate significant in-depth work and professional experience in science or the wine industry.

English Language Requirements

• IELTS Academic score of 6 with no band score lower than 5.5
• TOEFL Paper-based test (pBT) score of 550 (with an essay score of 5 TWE)
• TOEFL Internet-based test (iBT) score of 60 (with a writing score of 20)
• University of Cambridge ESOL Examinations: FCE, or FCE for schools, or CAE, or CPE with a score of 169. No less than 162 in each skill.
• Pearson Test of English (Academic) score of 50
• City & Guilds IESOL: B2 Communicator with a score of 66
• NZCEL Level 4 Academic
• Completion of an EIT Hawke’s Bay assessment.