Graduate Diploma in Arts (Politics and International Relations)

The Graduate Diploma in Arts (Politics and International Relations) will give you the equivalent of an undergraduate major in politics without completing a second bachelor’s degree.

The Graduate Diploma in Arts (Politics and International Relations) is a bridging tool for graduates in other subjects to get the equivalent of a major in politics.

Understand the world around you

Politics is exciting and relevant. It’s about contests for power and how we make decisions in society: who gets what, when and how, from the local community to the global level. It’s concerned with the conflict of ideas and values. It has to do with who governs, with how and why decisions that affect all of us (such as how much students should pay to study at university or whether the UN should sanction military interventions) are made.

Small class sizes and enthusiastic lecturers

At Massey, politics and international relations is taught in a small interdisciplinary programme where you have regular and close contact with academic staff. Your lecturers are active researchers in their respective fields. They are a politically diverse group who critically and enthusiastically engage with contemporary and historical events.

A wide range of topics

With Massey's GradDipArts (Politics and International Relations), you may study topics such as:

• how New Zealand’s system of government works
• what the rise of China means for the future of global politics
• the nature of inequality and how it is affected by public policy
• what is happening in the Palestine/Israel conflict
• the core concepts and the great thinkers of political philosophy
• the causes and consequences of key contemporary international conflicts.