BACHELOR'S DEGREE
in Hawaiian Studies
Student Teacher Ratio
:1
15
Undergraduate Students
Enrolled in Fallʻ24
60
Undergraduate Courses
Offered in Springʻ25
30
Undergraduate
Student Learning Outcomes
A Native Hawaiian perspective is emphasized in the major. Upon completion of a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) in Hawaiian Studies, our students are expected to demonstrate knowledge, understanding, critical analysis and synthesis of the following:
01
Knowing our genealogical ties to Papahānaumoku, our mother earth, and ko Hawaiʻi paeʻāina as our ancestral homeland.
02
Students can explain that Kanaka Maoli are one Lāhui connected by our ancestors Hāloa and Haumea across nā kai ʻewalu.
03
Students can discuss history, culture and politics in academic and non-academic settings.
04
Students can explain the interconnectedness of all knowledge, contemporary and ancestral, from a Kanaka Maoli perspective.
05
Students are capable of Kanaka Maoli applications, protocols and disciplines.
06
Students can discuss, practice, and advance Kanaka Maoli experiences in the context of world indigenous peoples.
