Classification of instructional programs (CIP) Canada 2000

• 1 - Chapter I: Academic and Occupation-specific Programs
• 16. - Aboriginal and Foreign Languages, Literatures and Linguistics
• 16.14 - Southeast Asian and Australasian/Pacific Languages, Literatures and Linguistics

16.1401 - Australian/Oceanic/Pacific Languages, Literatures and Linguistics

This instructional program class comprises any program that focuses on the languages spoken by the Melanesian, Micronesian, and Polynesian peoples inhabiting Papua/New Guinea, Australia, New Zealand, and the island groups of the Pacific Ocean. These programs include courses in such languages as the Papuan languages (Pidgin, Police Motu, and others); the Australian languages; Micronesian languages (Nauruan, Fijian, Mola, and others); and the Polynesian languages (Maori, Tahitian, Tongan, Samoan, and others); their oral and written literature; and applications to business, science/technology, and other settings.

• Example Program Names:

  • Australian languages
  • Indo-Pacific languages
  • Oceanic languages
  • Oceanic languages and literature

• Exclusion

  • Pacific and Asian studies(05.0109)
  • Southeast Asian languages(16.1400)