Adding value to your study

Adding value to a teaching qualification
Te Kura o Te Puna Wānanga is the School of Māori Education (Epsom) is the place for you if you want to study to become a Te Reo Māori teacher, or if you would like to teach in a total immersion environment.

From language to law, the University offers courses that will give you more freedom to choose your career or job. By adding something extra to your courses you can boost your career prospects – better jobs with higher pay and a more rewarding career path.


Education
Te Kura o Te Puna Wānanga is the School of Māori Education (Epsom) is the place for you if you want to study to become a Te Reo Māori teacher, or if you would like to teach in a total immersion environment.

Pathways

• A foundation course to upskill in Te Reo Māori and Tikanga Māori. Find out more 
  
  Leon Ward is doing a Foundation Certificate Tohu Tiiapapa Matauranga. Meet Leon 

• Teach in Māori immersion, Kura Kaupapa, bilingual schools, or even mainstreamprimary schools. Find out more 
  
  Vanhou Lolesio is doing a BEd Teaching Huarahi Māori Specialisation. Meet Vanhou
   

Graduate Diploma in Teaching English in Schools To Speakers of Other Languages (TESSOL)
You need this professional qualification if you want to specialise in teaching a second or foreign language or in teaching other languages. Learn more

The University offers the Foundation and Immersion courses at both Epsom and Te Tai Tokerau campuses.

Sustainability of the Whenua
Sustainability is more than just climate change, it's about kaitiakitanga. It’s about identity and ensuring our place in the world is protected for future generations. You can study sustainability in areas are diverse as investing, accounting, building design, law and product design.

Pathways

• Master of Architecture (Professional) (MArch (Prof)) Learn more
  Sustainable design, and Māori and cultural studies 
   
• Postgraduate Diploma in Business (Māori Development) Learn more
  Spiritual and practical knowledge, and the wisdom to take your Māori enterprise and career to new peaks.

Meet some Māori Development graduates

• Ra Keelen 
• Maxine Shortland 
• Angela Smith 
• Lynette Stewart

Science
Civil and Environmental Engineering
Become a specialist engineer in fields as diverse as transport and roading structures to use of water resources and protecting the environment

Postgraduate Diploma and Masters Degree Bioscience Enterprise
New Zealand’s first science/business conjoint that gives scientists crucial business skills.

Meet people working in this area
 

• Civil engineer Dr Kepa Morgan
  “The mauri of water, our waiora, is a fundamental indicator of sustainability.” 

• Earth system scientist Dr Dan Hikuroa
  Dan blends mātauranga Māori and western science to deliver a new approach to land, lake and waterway rehabilitation, and to sustainably developing natural resources. 

Law opens lots of doors
Law is not just courts and police. It’s the entry to careers that take you around the world. Meet two globetrotters.

Eesvan Krishnan did a Bachelor of Commerce/Bachelor of Laws (Honours) and is now a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford. Meet Eesvan 

Vicki McCall graduated BA/LLB and is now working for a top New York law firm. Meet Vicki
 

• Meet more law students and graduates

Meet some Māori law undergraduates 

• Aimee Matiu 
• Kingi Snelgar 
• Kiri Toki

Meet some Māori law graduates 

• Eddie Bluegum 
• Sharon Shea 
• Eric Teokotai 
• Stormie Waapu

Environmental law
The faculty has one of the world’s largest environmental law programmes. Find out more

Conjoint degrees
You can double your career options by combining a Law degree with a degree in Art, Commerce, Engineering, Health Science, Property or Science. Find out more

Te Tiriti o Waitangi
New Zealand began with this founding document and its importance and role in New Zealand is taught as an elective called Contemporary Greaty issues. Other elective inslude resource management  law and Māori and law. Find out more

The faculty is also home to Te Tai Haruru - the Māori Legal Academics Group - which studies the Māori dimension of New Zealand law. Find out more