POLS307-25S2 (C) Semester Two 2025

Policy Issues in Science, Technology, and Health

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 14 July 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 27 July 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 28 September 2025

Description

This course analyses major political issues and policy challenges in the area of biopolitics - the operation of power through governance of human bodies. Specific issues include the politics of infectious diseases, agtech, human ‘enhancement,’ and the implications of disruptive technologies for medicine, human reproduction, and life extension. Cases will be primarily drawn from North America, Australia, and Aotearoa. This course is part of the public policy subdiscipline in the Political Science degree and is also relevant to a number of other degrees across the university.

Prerequisites

Any 30 points at 200 level from HLTH or POLS, or
any 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA, or
LAWS, GEOG, or
the Schedule V of the BCom.

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 14:00 - 17:00 Ernest Rutherford 140
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct

Course Coordinator

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences Head of Department

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,788.00

International fee $8,200.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

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