Course details

Summary

Take your study of geography to a higher level

With Massey’s Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Geography) you’ll build on your undergraduate interests and develop your analysis and research skills.

WHAT IS IT LIKE?

Massey’s Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Geography) prepares you to be a thoughtful and knowledgeable local and global citizen. You’ll develop important career skills in research, spatial analysis, and evidence-based examination of the pressing issues facing New Zealand and the world today.

Learn from a range of teaching methods

This diploma will allow you to investigate topics such as urbanization, state restructuring, globalization, geopolitics, agrifood, resource management and consumption. Your courses will help you gain a global perspective drawing from international case studies and examples, while maintaining a particular focus on New Zealand’s place in a changing world.

Careers

With a PGDipArts (Geography) you can choose from a wide range of careers including:

• Conservation and environmental research
• Energy development
• Resource management
• Forestry
• Public service
• International development and diplomacy
• Local and regional councils
• Business and market research
• Teaching
• Tourism
• Journalism

Postgraduate Diploma in Arts (Geography) structure

Students will complete 120 credits of 700 level courses, selected from those listed on the Geography schedule, as shown below.

The Postgraduate Diploma in Arts may be awarded with Distinction or Merit if study is completed to a superior/high standard, and where all requirements have been completed within one year for full-time study.

All courses are 30 credits each unless otherwise indicated.

145.710 Consumption and Place
145.711 Foundations in Human Geography
145.712 Frontiers in Human Geography
145.730 Applied Coastal Geomorphology (15 credits)
145.731 Applied Fluvial Geomorphology (15 credits)
145.732 Landslide Investigation and Management (15 credits)
145.734 Paleoecology, Palynology and Biogeography (15 credits)
145.735 Detecting Geomorphic Change (15 credits)
145.736 Advanced Physical Geography Techniques (15 credits)
233.721 Global Climate Change (15 credits)

Note: not all papers are available in each semester.

Entry criteria

You will have completed one of the following:

• Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in Geography
• Bachelor’s degree with a minor in Geography , followed by a Graduate Certificate in Arts endorsed in Geography

Bachelor’s degree, followed by a Graduate Diploma in Arts endorsed in Geography

English language requirements:

• IELTS score of 6.5 (no band less than 6.0)
• TOEFL iBT score of 90 overall (min 20 in Writing)
• PTE Academic score of 58 Overall (min 50 in communicative skills)
• Cambridge English score of 180