艺术学科研究生文凭课程（PGDipArts）需要两个学期的全日制课程，或与之相当的兼读制课程。它需要一个结构化的研究生课程计划，并且在某些情况下，需要一项监督研究，其中包括一份或两篇必需的论文。正常的入学要求是所提议课程的主要主题的完整的文学学士学位。<br>哲学，政治和经济学是一个多学科的课程，结合了三个长期的，有吸引力的和智力上令人兴奋的组合既有影响力的学科。在哲学，政治学和经济学的几条线之间有着天然的亲和力和共同的根源。例如，从政治经济学领域发展起来的经济学，福利经济学则利用了哲学中的社会正义概念，
In Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) we prepare students to solve the world's problems by combining the analytical reasoning of philosophy, the social insight of political studies, and the methodological rigour of economics. Students complete a challenging course of study in logic, ethics, collective action, human behaviour, political theory, economics, and the history of ideas.Students in the Otago PPE programme complete rigorous courses of study in the three core disciplines, in addition to interdisciplinary seminars and original research.There are natural affinities and common roots among several strands of philosophy, politics, and economics. For example, economics developed from the field of political economy, welfare economics utilises concepts of social justice from philosophy, and the philosophy of science has important implications for methodologies adopted in economics and politics.<br>Graduates with a PPE degree go on to apply their analytical skills in many different fields: recent graduates are working as diplomats, journalists, lawyers, project managers, academics, business executives, entrepreneurs, accountants, and policy analysts.There are PPE graduates in entertainment, in tourism, and in information technology, those in government work at the Supreme Court and at the Ministries for the Environment, Treasury, Social Development, and Inland Revenue, among others.