Diploma of International Studies

The Diploma of International Studies* aims to deliver quality education through a unique IPC teaching philosophy:

• Develop students' English language skills to a high level primarily through an integrated approach to content and language teaching
• Develop students' character
• Ensure students in the programme receive high levels of personal attention
• Offer areas of content specialisation that secure jobs
• Ensure that the business perspectives complement the computing ability throughout the curriculum.

*Only available to students whose native language is not English.

The diploma involves four years of full time study. While teaching takes place at the Palmerston North campus, the tourism stream is taught in part at IPC's Queenstown campus.

The papers in each stream are sequential and compulsory. Students are required to complete all papers in their chosen stream to graduate with the appropriate specialisation. Students must pass a total of 32 papers prior to graduation. One third of these papers, including the relevant introduction papers, are in the student's chosen specialty area. Students are also required to enrol in three introductory papers, five English skills papers and a selection of papers taken from the thirty elective choices. The minimum of three introductional papers (one in each specialty area) provide students with an overview of the subject area and enable them to make informed decisions about which area to specialise in from the second term of Year Two. Throughout their diploma, students may take a specialty paper from another stream if they have fullfulled the prerequisites. This paper is taken in lieu of an elective paper.

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