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MA(Thesis) students within Te Kaupeka Toi Tangata | Faculty of Arts benefit from:
a lively and supportive postgraduate culture
access to world-class research centres in the humanities and social sciences.
Those interested in coursework-based studies and internship opportunities in their subject may consider the Master of Arts.
You will complete a thesis course listed in one of the subjects below: Anthropology
Art History
Art Theory
Child and Family Psychology
Chinese
Cinema Studies (as an English major)
Classics
Cultural Studies
Economics
Education
English
European Studies
French
Geography
German
History
Human Services
Japanese
Linguistics
M?ori and Indigenous Studies
Mathematics
Media and Communication
Music
Pacific Studies
Philosophy
Political Science and International Relations
Psychology
Russian
Sociology
Spanish
Statistics
Te Reo M?ori
Course Code : N/A
Course Type : Full Time
Course Level : Masters/PG Degree
Duration : 01 Year
Total Tuition Fee :35400 NZD
Annual Cost of Living :20000 NZD
In 1873, the University of Canterbury was the second university to be established in Aotearoa New Zealand. Learn about our history through historical records and meet some of the renowned academics, authors, and artists who have studied here.
Established in 1873 Canterbury College, as it was then known, was only the second university in Aotearoa New Zealand.
It was set up on the Oxbridge model with one major difference: women students were admitted from the start. An early graduate, Helen Connon, became the first woman in the then British Empire to win honours.
Housed in graceful stone buildings on a central city block, the College was dependent on rents from high country farms with which it had been endowed by the Canterbury Provincial Council.
Ernest Rutherford, Canterbury’s most distinguished graduate, studied at the University in the 1890s. He discovered his scientific ability during a year of postgraduate research before taking up a scholarship to Cambridge. He would go on to win the Nobel Prize in chemistry and in 1917, became the first person to split the atom.
Leader and politician Sir Apirana Ngata (Ngati Porou) was a contemporary of Rutherford and became the first M?ori graduate from an Aotearoa New Zealand university. Portraits of the two grace Aotearoa New Zealand's $100 and $50 bank notes respectively.
Canterbury College was renamed Canterbury University College in 1933 before becoming the University of Canterbury in 1957.
For most of its first 100 years the University was situated in the centre of ?tautahi Christchurch (now the Arts Centre) but moved to its current location in 1975, a spacious, purpose-built 76 hectare site in the suburb of Ilam. The ‘new’ University campus has a central complex of libraries, lecture theatres, laboratories and student accommodation surrounded by playing fields, woodlands and the renowned Ilam Gardens.
The University of Canterbury now has seven faculties:
Arts | Folk Art
Business | Business School
Education | I
Engineering System
Health | Life
Law Kurepeka Ture
Science | Science
UC now has a diverse range of study options, offering over 120 qualifications in more than 150 subject areas. Ten local accommodation facilities provide board for more than 2,200 students.
It also has the most extensive network of field stations for student and staff research of any university in Aotearoa New Zealand, including Kaikoura, Cass, Westport, Harihari (South Westland), the sub-Antarctic Snares Islands and Antarctica, and Aotearoa New Zealand’s premier astronomical research facility at Mount John in Tekapo.
UC is privileged to also operate a field station in Nigeria as part of the Nigerian Montane Forest Project.
During study, all students on a student visa can work up to 20 hours per week during semester and full time during vacations. After completing Level 7 Bachelor’s Degree or Higher Qualification, a student will get a three years open post-study work visa. After completing Level 8 Post Graduate courses of 1 year, students get 1 year PSW.