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Population, Urban and Rural GeographyUndergraduate Papers | Graduate Papers The Programmes of Geography, Tourism and Environmental Planning have had a strong interest in Population and Urban Geography from its earliest days and has played a major role in developing the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences as New Zealand's leading centre for teaching and research in international migration and population studies. In 1979 the University established a Population Studies Centre in the Faculty and students interested in Population and Urban Geography may strengthen their degrees in this field by taking some of the papers co-ordinated by the staff of the Population Studies Centre. The population and urban papers taught in our Programmes have always emphasized the interdisciplinary and applied nature of population and urban studies and have sought to balance important international and local perspectives. Geography has major strengths in international migration studies and has been very successful in securing competitive research funding in this field from the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology (FRST), Asia 2000, the Health Research Council and the New Zealand Immigration Service. An international migration research group has two full-time research fellows and a number of part-time research assistants. There are opportunities for students to be employed as temporary research assistants from time to time. Students interested in Population and Urban Geography can select an undergraduate pathway of relevant papers for a Bachelor of Social Sciences (BSocSc) degree. Graduate students may select relevant papers for a BSocSc (Hons) degree and continue with a thesis in Population or Urban Geography for a Master of Social Sciences (MSocSc) degree. Further specialization is possible for a Master of Philosophy (MPhil) degree and for a PhD degree. Undergraduate PapersRecommended papers for students interested in Population and Urban Geography include: 100 Level Papers
200 Level Papers
300 Level Papers
Graduate PapersDegree of Bachelor of Social Sciences with Honours (BSocSc (Hons))There are two major pathways available to students interested in Population and Urban Geography at the BSocSc (Hons) degree level at the University of Waikato. The first has an international migration or population focus; the second has a new Urban Cultural Geography or Feminist Geography focus. Students are required to pass a total of four papers for an honours degree. Students interested in Population Geography can choose to study for either a degree in Geography or Demography or they may take a combination of papers taught from our Programmes and the Population Studies Centre (see the BSocSc (Hons) degree regulations in the University of Waikato Calendar). For details of the second pathway see the Feminist Geography web pages. The Population and Urban Geography papers have always been student-centred papers that have sought to meet the needs of different groups of students as much as possible. They encourage students to focus on topics that are of particular interest to them. This flexibility and the wide range of relevant papers offered by a variety of disciplines in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences enables students interested in migration, population and urban studies to customise their degrees according to their interests and career aspirations. The two Geography papers that may be taken for either a Geography or a Demography BSocSc (Hons) degree are:
Demography papers that may be taken for a Geography or Demography BSocSc(Hons) degree are:
For further information on the Demography papers see the Demography & Population Studies web pages. Degree of Master of Social Sciences (MSocSc)Under the new MSocSc degree regulations that came into force from 1 January 1998 candidates for the MSocSc degree must normally have qualified for the award of the degree of BSocSc (Hons) of the University of Waikato or a qualification considered by the Academic Board to be equivalent (see the University of Waikato Calendar). The masters degree programme comprises either a thesis equivalent to four papers or two papers and a dissertation which is equivalent to two papers. In Geography, Tourism and Environmental Planning the programme for masters students is normally to undertake supervised research for a thesis equivalent to four papers. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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