Programme Description

History at the University of Waikato (Hamilton and Tauranga) is committed to offering students a range of inter-related thematic areas of study of the past.

National histories and foundation stories

United States; Australia; New Zealand; Britain and Ireland; national political and social histories

World/global histories

World economic and trade systems before 1800; twentieth-century world history; contemporary global histories; migrations; revolutions; empires

Cultural encounter

Māori-Pākehā; Aboriginal-European; Oceania region; indigenous histories; Iwi / Māori history

Communicating the past

Museums and memory; film and history; public history; media and communication

Approaches to the study of the past

Research methodologies; applied history research opportunities; theoretical approaches, including social, cultural, oral, political, strategic, postmodern and intellectual histories

Students are strongly encouraged to seek academic advice from staff when planning their programme of study, since particular choices made as an undergraduate can enhance or limit research options at graduate level.