Te Aka Reo
Department of Māori Language
Tīkina mai ko ngā Kete o te Wānanga
Ko te Kete tuāuri
Ko te Kete tuātea
Ko te Kete aronui
Ka tiritiria, ka poupoua ki a Papatūānuku
Ka puta te ira tangata ki te Whai-ao, ki te Ao-Mārama
Tihei mauri ora!!
E ngā mana, e ngā reo, e ngā kārangatanga maha, tēnei te karanga pōwhiri ki a koutou, e whai mai nā i te mātauranga o ō tātou tūpuna hei oranga mō te hinengaro, otirā ngā uri whakatupu, hei piki kōtuku tonu mō te māhunga.
"I te tīmatanga ko Te Kupu, i te Atua te Kupu, ko te Atua anō te Kupu"
(Hoani 1; 1)
Nau mai! Piki mai! Haere mai!
Tēnei te Aka Reo e tautoko nei i ngā inoi katoa kua inoia, i ngā tangi katoa kua tangihia, i ngā mihi katoa kua mihia, heoi anō.
E kiia ana te kōrero 'Ko Te Reo te mauri o te Māoritanga.'
Nō reira manaakitia mai.
E kiia ana te kōrero 'Nā Te Reo te Māoritanga i poipoia ai.'
Nō reira tautokona mai.
E kiia ana te kōrero ' Mā te reo e ora ai te Māoritanga.'
Nō reira pupurutia!
Introduction
Te Aka Tikanga and Te Aka Reo extend a warm welcome to you all. We invite you to join us in the pursuit of excellence in maintaining te reo, our Maori language, and the traditions of our ancestors. While so doing, we have the opportunity to help forge new and exciting pathways for our people. One's identity as an individual, and as a member of the community, establishes a base for encountering other worldviews and disciplines. The challenge for us all is to develop international links while retaining and nurturing that which makes us unique, Te Reo Maori me a tatou nei tikanga.
Ngā Pou o Te Aka Reo / Te Aka Tikanga
Chairpersons of the Departments of Māori Language and Māori Culture
He whai i ngā tohungatanga o te ako me te
rangahau i ngā mātauranga o te Māori, o te Ao
hoki kia puta ai te iwi ki te Ao mārama.
To Advance Māori and Indigenous Peoples
through Excellence in Education, Teaching
and Research.
Māori is an official language of Aotearoa, New Zealand. The erosion of the language in the past has been succeeded by revitalisation within contemporary society, especially with the Māori programmes offered here at Te Whare Wānanga o Waikato, the University of Waikato.
A programme in Māori offers students the opportunity to study both Māori language and culture to a high level of competency. This unique programme is designed to produce students competent in Māori for academic and cultural use, and also incorporates iwi management and development components. The programme offers an exploration of past and present tangata whenua experience, and the determination of the future.
The subject Māori may be taken as a major towards the BA or BMPD degrees, a major within the conjoint degree BA/LLB, or as a major toward the BSocSc degree within the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Māori may also be taken as a supporting subject within any of the other qualifications offered by the University, subject to the approval of the Dean of the Faculty or School in which the student is enrolled.
A major in Māori must include the following papers: MAOR313, MAOR314 and one Level 3 non-language Māori paper taught in Te Reo. The major must also include another non-language paper taught in Te Reo from the School. Please note that papers taught in the medium of English do not count towards a major in Māori.
Careers
The recognition of Māori as an official language of Aotearoa has been accompanied by an acknowledgement of tangata whenua issues within the community and society as a whole. The ability to be fluent in both Māori and English has become increasingly important within a number of professional areas.
Some of these areas are:
- Education (teaching and the development of learning resources)
- Medicine (practice and therapy)
- Research (tribal, national and museum)
- Media (television, radio, publications and new developments)
- Government (politics, research and translation)
- Travel and tourism, and many others.
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