Institutions & Courses The University of Waikato Courses
Postgraduate Diploma in Development Studies
This course is available at the following The University of Waikato campuses:
Waikato
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Bay of Plenty
The Postgraduate Diploma involves two semesters of full time study or its equivalent in part time study. To gain entry into the diploma students must normally have gained a bachelors degree of the University of Waikato or its equivalent. Students must complete 120 points at 500 level from the subjects listed below. Up to 30 points may be included from other graduate subjects.
Similar to many other indigenous peoples, Māori and Pacific perspectives of development are understood as any activity that sustains and enhances people, their culture and communities as well as the natural environment which they are a part of. Indigenous perspectives tend to be holistic in their understanding of the processes and outcomes of development. An indigenous approach looks at the individual, community, natural world and the past as all part of the whole.
Pacific Island students and other students with interests in indigenous development wishing to major in development studies are encouraged to apply. The strength of the discipline is its focus on critically analysing "development" from comparative indigenous perspectives; conceptualising sustainable or holistic development as maintenance and strengthening of man-made capital, human capital, natural capital and social/cultural capital; and the complicated, real-life processes by which indigenous groups give effect to self-determined sustainable or holistic development.
