Course details

Summary

Expand your Bachelor's degree with advanced undergraduate study gain skills and knowledge in a new subject area.

Study a new subject and enhance your career prospects by completing a 120-point GDipArts.

The Graduate Diploma will also prepare you to study that subject at postgraduate level, such as the Bachelor of Arts with Honours or the Master of Arts.

The GDipArts can be completed in two trimesters when studied full time, or in up to four years if you're studying part time.

You don't need to have a Bachelor of Arts to complete a GDipArts graduates with any undergraduate degree can enrol.

Available subjects

• Art History
• Asian Studies
• Chinese
• Classical Studies
• Criminology
• Cultural Anthropology
• Development Studies
• Economics
• Education
• Education and Psychology
• English Literature
• Film
• French
• Geography
• German
• Greek
• History
• International Relations
• Italian
• Japanese
• Latin
• Linguistics
• 毛利 Resource Management
• 毛利 Studies
• Mathematics
• Media Studies
• Modern Language Studies
• Music
• Pacific Studies
• Philosophy
• Political Science
• Psychology
• Public Policy
• Religious Studies
• Sāmoan Studies/Fa'asamoa
• Sociology
• Spanish
• Te Reo 毛利
• Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
• Theatre

Entry criteria

Bachelor's degree or equivalent. You may also be required to demonstrate your proficiency in English.

Other English Language requirements:

• IELTS overall band of 6.5, no sub-score below 6.0; or
• TOEFL 90 on the internet-based test with at least 20 in writing; or
• A minimum of two ratings of 5 and two ratings of 4 in the Victoria University English Proficiency Programme test
• Pearson Test of English: A score of 65 (with a ‘Communicative’ score of not less than 58).