100-level

HIST128
New Zealand History from Waka to Weta
Description
From the arrival of the first peoples, to the successful creativity of Weta Workshops, this course introduces the essentials of New Zealand history according to the very latest scholarship. Located at the fault lines of the past, the course mixes wars, strikes, disease, guilt and apology with utopic visions and world-leading creativity and innovation. Major themes are Maori and Pakeha conflict and collaboration, the development and tensions of a ‘new world’ colonial nation, and New Zealand’s changing place on the world stage. Through a series of innovative assignments, you will learn how to research and write history at the university level.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2025
Points
15 points
Restrictions
HIST108, HIST109, HIST124
HIST136
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Description
This course explores the nature of revolutions and their role in shaping the modern world. After looking at various definitions of the term 'revolution', and a range of historical approaches to the study of revolutions, the course looks in turn at a series of case studies such as the American, French and Russian revolutions, and their causes, course and consequences.
Occurrences
Semester One 2025
Points
15 points
Restrictions
HIST123
HIST137
Modern World History
Description
This course explores some of the major ideas and events that have shaped world history since 1945 and asks: Which are stronger, the forces for world unity or the forces for fragmentation? The first half of the course looks at the immediate post-war period. This is the time when Europe declines, European colonies become new nations and the United States of America (U.S.A.) gains power. It is the time of the Cold War when the world is divided by 'an iron curtain' between western capitalist states led by the U.S.A. and eastern bloc communist states centered on the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). The second half of the course looks at the world after the collapse of communism. We study the global impacts of the struggle for resources and the increasing prominence of terrorism in the modern world.
Occurrences
Semester One 2025
Points
15 points

Not Offered Courses in 2025

100-level

HIST127
American History
Description
The history of British America and the US from 1492 to the present.
Occurrences
Not offered 2025, offered in 2019 , 2020 , 2021 , 2023 , 2024
For further information see HIST127 course details
Points
15 points
HIST133
Medieval Europe: from Rome to the Black Death
Description
A survey course covering a range of themes in Western European history including social and economic developments, government, religion and warfare (c. 300 - 1400).
Occurrences
Not offered 2025, offered in 2019 , 2020 , 2021 , 2022 , 2024
For further information see HIST133 course details
Points
15 points