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Kaupapa Māori Psychology provides students with a firm grounding in Kaupapa Māori and Indigenous Psychologies, where Māori worldviews are considered alongside psychological theories, methods and models in real world contexts where Māori livelihoods are impacted. Students will have the opportunity to develop specialised knowledge relating to national, regional and international indigenous psychology issues in the contemporary world and of the complex and inter-related nature of those issues as they pertain to Māori, culture and land, to the Treaty itself, and to indigenous peoples.

Kaupapa Māori Psychology is available as a first major for the Bachelor of Arts (BA), Bachelor of Health (BHealth), Bachelor of Science (BSc) and the Bachelor of Social Sciences (BSocSc). Kaupapa Māori Psychology may also be included as a second major or minor in other undergraduate degrees, subject to the approval of the Division in which the student is enrolled.

To complete Kaupapa Māori Psychology as a single major for the BA, BHealth, BSc and BSocSc, students must gain 135 points in papers listed for Kaupapa Māori Psychology, including PSYCH123, at least 15 points at 100 level, PSYCH202, PSYCH223, at least 15 points at 200 level, PSYCH302, PSYCH303, PSYCH323, and at least a further 15 points at 300 level.

To complete Kaupapa Māori Psychology as part of a double major for the BA, BHealth, BSc, BSocSc or other undergraduate degree, students must gain 120 points in papers listed for Kaupapa Māori Psychology, including PSYCH123, PSYCH202, PSYCH223, PSYCH302, PSYCH303 and PSYCH323 plus at least a further 30 points at 200 level or above.

To complete a minor in Kaupapa Māori Psychology, students must complete 60 points from the papers listed for the Kaupapa Māori Psychology major, including at least 15 points at 200 level and at least 15 points at 300 level.

Note:

Kaupapa Māori Psychology will be introduced as a first major for the BA, BHealth, BSc and BSocSc; and as a second major for other undergraduate degrees in 2026. The earliest date this major can be completed will be 2028 when all compulsory papers have been offered.

The Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma in Kaupapa Māori Psychology will be offered initially in 2028.

Other qualifications

Prescriptions for:

Kaupapa Māori Psychology papers

100 Level 200 Level 300 Level
Code and paper title Points
MAOED100 Huarahi Matauranga Māori: Historical and Contemporary Approaches to Māori Education right arrow

This paper examines historical and contemporary approaches in Māori education provision in Aotearoa New Zealand. It explores policies, practices and...

15 26A (Hamilton) & 26A (Online) & 26A (Tauranga)
MAORI150 Te Tiriti o Waitangi: An Introduction to the Treaty of Waitangi right arrow

This paper seeks to provide a sound understanding of Te Tiriti o Waitangi. It reviews historical and contemporary interpretations and takes into...

15 26A (Hamilton) & 26A (Tauranga) & 26B (Hamilton)
PSYCH101 Social Psychology, Health and Well-being right arrow

This paper will introduce major issues in psychology particularly as they relate to health, wellbeing, mental illness, forensic psychology, lifespan...

15 26B (Hamilton) & 26B (Tauranga)
PSYCH123 Te Tūāpapa: Introduction to Kaupapa Māori Psychology right arrow

This paper provides foundational knowledge of Kaupapa Māori Psychology as a Human and Behavioural science. Students will be introduced to some of the...

15 26A (Hamilton) & 26A (Tauranga)
Code and paper title Points
MAORI200 Mana Wahine right arrow

This paper examines foundational aspects of mana wahine scholarship, the impact of colonisation on Māori and Indigenous women, and the resistant...

15 26B (Hamilton)
MAORI203 Decolonising Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples right arrow

The paper looks at the detrimental effects that research has historically had on Indigenous peoples and the relatively recent creation of research...

15 26A (Hamilton)
MAORI204 Māori and Pacific Health and Wellbeing right arrow

This paper looks at health and wellbeing from Māori and Pacific perspectives, including models and frameworks in relation to Health, Sport, Human...

15 26A (Hamilton) & 26A (Tauranga)
PSYCH202 Mauri Ora: Social Psychology of Human Flourishing right arrow

The paper will examine important conceptual frameworks and theory within social psychology and the social sciences generally. Māori perspectives and...

15 26A (Hamilton) & 26A (Tauranga)
Code and paper title Points
MAORI303 Critical Indigenous Theory right arrow

This paper looks at the key theoretical influences, from Marxism to post-structuralism, upon critical Indigenous studies and the most significant...

15 26B (Hamilton)
PSYCH303 Indigenous Psychology right arrow

Students develop a critical analysis of the positions of contemporary Indigenous peoples through discussion and examination of the Western world and...

15 26B (Hamilton) & 26B (Tauranga)
SOCPY301 Health, Wellbeing and Policy right arrow

This paper provides a critical introduction to key issues in the formation of health policy at both a national and international level.

15 26A (Online)
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2026 Catalogue of Papers information current as of 16 Aug 2025 01:00am