Health Sciences

100-level

HLTH106
Te Wero - Maori Health Issues and Opportunities
Description
This course introduces students to a selection of historical and contemporary Maori health content within a Treaty of Waitangi framework, to support robust analyses of Maori population health issues. Exploring what Maori health was and is, students will be challenged to consider the promise of Maori health and its significance for current and future Aotearoa New Zealand.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester One 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points

Maori and Indigenous Studies

100-level

MAOR107
Te Ara o Tawhaki: Maori Thought, Beliefs and Practices
Description
This course provides an introduction to Maori knowledges and metaphysics through a study of topics such as voyaging, art and aesthetics, warfare, conflict and peace. We also look at how approaches to Maori knowledges and their impacts are critiqued.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester One 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Restrictions

MAOR108
Te Patu a Maui : The Treaty of Waitangi - facing and overcoming colonisation
Description
Through focus on the themes of Power, Property and Citizenship, this course examines the historical realities of the Treaty, enabling an understanding of the modern colonial nation state and its processes with respect to Indigenous peoples. The course examines Maori responses, engagement with, and resistance to the colonial project leading to a critical understanding of colonialism.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Semester Two 2024 (Distance)
Summer Nov 2024 (Distance)
Special non-calendar-based One 2024 (UC Online)
Special non-calendar-based Three 2024 (UC Online)
Points
15 points
Restrictions
CULT114, MAOR113 (prior to 2006)

Sport Coaching

100-level

SPCO126
Land Journeys and Ethics
Description
Informed by experiential education approaches, students will complete a weekend backpacking trip with instructors as part of the overall course and use reflections from these experiences, in conjunction with coursework on human-nature relationships, to critically analyse and develop a personal land ethic. The field trip explores the concept of wilderness in land ethics through a direct experience of actual wilderness. The course has a focus on bi-culturally competent and globally connected understandings of the relationships between humans and nature.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Restrictions
TEPE112

Not Offered Courses in 2024

Maori and Indigenous Studies

100-level

MAOR108
Te Patu a Maui : The Treaty of Waitangi - facing and overcoming colonisation
Description
Through focus on the themes of Power, Property and Citizenship, this course examines the historical realities of the Treaty, enabling an understanding of the modern colonial nation state and its processes with respect to Indigenous peoples. The course examines Maori responses, engagement with, and resistance to the colonial project leading to a critical understanding of colonialism.
Occurrences
MAOR108-24X4 (O)
Special non-calendar-based Four 2024 (UC Online) - Not offered
For further information see MAOR108 course details
Points
15 points
Restrictions
CULT114, MAOR113 (prior to 2006)