He Waka Hiringa

• 5 x 5-day noho (32 hours per noho, total noho hours = 160 hours)

• 5 x 8-hour wānanga (40 hours in total)

• 20 x 2-hour wānanga whāiti (tutorials)

You'll also need to complete other learning activities designed to enhance your learning for approximately:

• 24 hours per week

Example tasks and activities include: 

• Working through programme resources (such as workbooks, audio, video, or online activities) 

• Completing aromatawai (assessments) and required reading 

• Practising your new skills

• Doing research, reflection, or group study 

Keen to know how study fits around work and home?
Our Enrolment Support and Study Experience section can help. 

• 6 x 5-day noho (32 hours per noho, total noho hours = 192 hours)

• 6 x 8-hour wānanga (48 hours in total)

You'll also need to complete other learning activities designed to enhance your learning for approximately:

• 27.5 hours per week

Example tasks and activities include: 

• Working through programme resources (such as workbooks, audio, video, or online activities) 

• Completing aromatawai (assessments) and required reading 

• Practising your new skills

• Doing research, reflection, or group study 

Keen to know how study fits around work and home?
Our Enrolment Support and Study Experience section can help. 

You’ll need to have access to a: 

• Computer or laptop 

• Reliable internet connection

If you have chosen to pay your programme fee in full (or through StudyLink): Payment must be made within 30 days of your programme start date.

If you have chosen to pay your programme fee by instalments: Your first payment is due 14 days after your programme start date, with the remaining 7 payments due every 14 days until all 8 instalments have been paid.

Our Tauira Support Advisors can help with:

• Applying for a student loan or allowance

• Applying for Inati Tahua | Tauira Access Fund

• Applying for a scholarship

Please reach out early. Unpaid fees can affect your ability to continue studying or graduate.

Talk to us early if you're having difficulty. If your fees remain unpaid, recovery steps will be taken:

• 15-90 days overdue: Overdue fees notices issued (depending on the payment option selected)

• 91-99 days: Debt collection process begins

• 100+ days: Debt with collection agency

Unpaid fees may be referred to a collection agency and could impact your ability to study or graduate.

You’ll explore the nature of knowledge (epistemology) and critically evaluate how tacit knowledge from lived experience shapes practice. You’ll examine how traditional knowledge is transferred across generations and how Indigenous ways of knowing are preserved, positioning yourself as an Indigenous practitioner in your field. By the end, you’ll present a holistic model of understanding that reflects your practice.

You’ll deconstruct your practice using Māori/Indigenous principles and values, then compare and contrast your approach with other Indigenous practitioners. You’ll critically evaluate Indigenous models and frameworks related to the reification of Indigenous thought and develop your own distinctive, principle-based model of practice.

You’ll build the skills to formulate and interpret values and ideas of knowledge through philosophical inquiry. You’ll critique ethical issues, logic and debates about indigeneity, and synthesise evidence from literary, oral and/or visual sources to support a Māori/Indigenous philosophical position linked to your field of practice.

You’ll design an Indigenous community-based rangahau project to be implemented in Kōnae Ako 5. You’ll select a relevant topic, construct research questions, identify suitable approaches and outline tikanga rangahau (ethical) considerations. You’ll complete a Kaupapa Proposal and a Tikanga Rangahau (ethics) application as part of this kōnae.

This kōnae ako is the pinnacle of tauira knowledge and practices in He Waka Hiringa: Master of Applied Indigenous Knowledge. You’ll apply and evaluate your learning within an applied project connected to Indigenous epistemology and an Indigenous community. At the end of the kōnae, you’ll present your taonga tuku iho and communicate your project findings. You’ll also produce a written report (an exegesis) as part of this final kōnae ako.