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The Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies at the
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa offers a graduate program leading
to the MA in Hawaiian studies. The program features an interdisciplinary
approach to the study of the Hawaiian islands, as well as
the aboriginal population of the islands and their lineal
descendents, who carry on the traditions of Hawai'i in the
face of relentless contemporary change.
The worldview from which this MA program operates is based
on the genealogical, ancestral and attendant spiritual ties
to the Hawaiian islands and the surrounding oceans as cosmogonic
elders, in concert with Western academic disciplines where
appropriate. This unique synthesis of Hawaiian and Western
worldviews will be generated through the interaction of faculty
and students in the program, and will be applied to coursework,
practicum, reading and research activities geared toward individual
interests.
Students in the program will be required to complete a set
of core courses, after which they will choose two focus areas
of concentration for their research. The focus areas include
the following:
- historical perspectives,
- national and international issues,
- native and non-native Hawaiian resource management,
- comparative Polynesian studies, and
- cultural constructions of indigenous visual, performance,
and health knowledge.
Students who do not hold a BA in Hawaiian studies will be
required to enroll in prerequisite courses to assure mastery
of the undergraduate curriculum in Hawaiian studies.
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