POLS308-25S1 (C) Semester One 2025

International Politics: Aotearoa New Zealand Foreign Policy

30 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 22 June 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 2 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 11 May 2025

Description

This course will critically examine Aotearoa New Zealand’s past and present foreign policy while exploring future foreign policy directions.

Prerequisites

Any 30 points at 200 level from 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.

Restrictions

Equivalent Courses

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage  Description
Exam 30% A two-hour final exam in exam period
Participation 10% Participation (based on attendance, preparation of readings for discussion, and contribution to class activities)
Word aide memoire 24 Mar 2023 20% A 500-600 word aide memoire plus oral presentation (word count does not include references)
Policy advice paper 26 May 2023 40% A 2500 word policy advice paper plus oral presentation (word count does not include references)

Textbooks / Resources

Required Texts

Brady, Anne-Marie; Small states and the changing global order : New Zealand faces the future ; SPRINGER, 2019 (Available directly via the Springer website in electronic, soft or hard cover version https://www.springer.com/gp/book/9783030188023; an e-version in the UC Library, a hard copy can be read in the McMillan Brown Library at UC; or you can order a kobo).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,687.00

International fee $7,900.00

* 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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