100-level

MGMT100
Fundamentals of Management
Description
An introduction to the fundamental principles of management related to the functional areas of planning, organising, leading and controlling, as well as an introduction to how organisations are linked to the New Zealand and global business environment.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Restrictions
MGMT101
MKTG100
Principles of Marketing
Description
This course aims to enable students to understand the fundamental concepts and theories of marketing and how they may be applied to the marketplace in a modern and dynamic environment. By the end of the course, students should appreciate the various concepts and theories of marketing and understand how these may be appropriately applied in achieving marketing objectives in a variety of contexts and environments.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Restrictions
MGMT102
COMS101
Media and Society
Description
COMS101 explores the relationship between society and media - including social media, print, broadcasting, and all kinds of online spaces. It asks how our understandings of the world and people around us are mediated, how media have shaped society, and how society is reflected and produced through media. We will explore topics like media audiences, technologies, ownership and work; the frames of representation, power, and identity; and analytical tools like semiotics, discourse, and narrative. COMS101 is a stage one course that does not require any prior media study, but it builds on everything you have ever watched, listened to, interacted with, and produced. This course has on-campus and distance options. It includes weekly written exercises and requires active in-class engagement on campus, or in the distance stream to develop core university skills and learn effectively from the teaching staff and from each other.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester One 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
YACL102
Introduction to Professional Youth Work in Aotearoa
Description
In this course, you will be introduced to and learn about the professional practice of youth work in Aotearoa. You will learn about the context within which youth work in Aotearoa operates, its history and current structures. The course will help you understand the principles of the sector and explicitly acknowledges the diversity and mana of young people. In this course, you will examine how young people build and sustain quality relationships and connect to the social, physical and digital world, demonstrating knowledge of hononga and whanaungatanga. We will investigate the legal and ethical requirements for the care of young people in Aotearoa in the context of holistic wellbeing, responsibility and reciprocity. You will be introduced to frameworks that are used in the youth work sector to facilitate manaakitanga, youth participation and whai wahitanga, recognising young people as valued contributors to society. This course has been designed in cooperation with Ara Taiohi and Korowai Tupu and strongly reflects the Mana Taiohi principles that underpin professional youth work practice in Aotearoa. We will implement the participatory approach, common in the sector, to co-construct our understanding of youth identities and youth work practice. This course will lay the foundation for your journey towards becoming a professional youth worker and will equip you to connect the knowledge and concepts you will encounter in other courses into your developing professional identity.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Semester Two 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
EDUC103
Education, Culture and Society
Description
This course provides an introduction to foundational theories, concepts and processes in the study of education. The course explores theories about power, justice and fairness in society, with a particular focus on how they relate to education. It also examines what part factors such as class, genders and sexualities, disability, and race may play in maintaining unequal forms of education. An important feature of the course will be analysing the role played by education in the development of colonial relations between Maori and Pakeha, and how that continues to shape contemporary New Zealand society.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester One 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Restrictions
EDUC120 and TEDU111
HSRV104
Youth Realities
Description
The course introduces students to the diverse realities of ‘youth’ with a focus on multiple contexts. Students explore the concept of youth and the cultural, historical, political and economic contexts in which young people live and the decisions that they make. We critically consider the issues that place young people outside the margins of dominant society, and the responses, models and theoretical frameworks used in youth studies.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester One 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Restrictions
SOWK104
GEOG106
Global Environmental Change
Description
An exploration of major environmental changes happening at the global scale. With a particular focus on climate, ice, freshwater, and ocean processes, we investigate how geospatial monitoring and other tools are used to address global environmental challenges. We look at how human activities are interacting with Earth systems, and aim to empower people to improve environmental and societal resilience at a range of scales.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Restrictions
GEOG103
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
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
Summer Nov 2023 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Restrictions
CULT114, MAOR113 (prior to 2006)
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)
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)
TREO110
Te Ngao Tu: Conversational Maori for Absolute Beginners
Description
A beginner's course in Maori language for those with no previous background in Te Reo Maori. Students will learn basic informal and formal greetings, introductory songs, proverbs and idiom, how to introduce themselves, express family relationships. The course will enable students to hold a basic conversation. This is a highly recommended language option for those who might work with Maori people or who just wish to familiarise themselves with the language. Students who have been credited with higher level TREO language courses cannot credit TREO 110. Students with prior knowledge or who are literate and/or fluent speakers of Te Reo may not enrol in this course without the permission of the Programme Director.
Occurrences
Summer Nov 2023
Summer Nov 2023 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Restrictions
MAOR105, MAOR110, MAOR111, MAOR112, MAOR115, MAOR124, MAOR125
TREO110
Te Ngao Tu: Conversational Maori for Absolute Beginners
Description
A beginner's course in Maori language for those with no previous background in Te Reo Maori. Students will learn basic informal and formal greetings, introductory songs, proverbs and idiom, how to introduce themselves, express family relationships. The course will enable students to hold a basic conversation. This is a highly recommended language option for those who might work with Maori people or who just wish to familiarise themselves with the language. Students who have been credited with higher level TREO language courses cannot credit TREO 110. Students with prior knowledge or who are literate and/or fluent speakers of Te Reo may not enrol in this course without the permission of the Programme Director.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Restrictions
MAOR105, MAOR110, MAOR111, MAOR112, MAOR115, MAOR124, MAOR125
SOCI112
Global Society
Description
Combining sociological theory and concepts with arguments and examples drawn from around the globe, this course conveys the scope and value of sociology for understanding the complex and fast-changing world in which we live.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
HLED122
Building Resilience
Description
This course is designed as an introduction to the concept of mental health. It examines concepts of mental health and resilience and considers these in relation to the determinants of health. The course develops students' understanding of models of best practice in mental health education and promotion. Students will explore a range of mental health issues and demonstrate a range of strategies designed to enhance their own and others' mental health.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
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
PHIL139
Ethics, Politics and Justice
Description
How we should live our lives is the most important question of all. What makes our actions right or wrong? Is it our culture, our emotions, facts about the world, or God's commands? Are pleasure and happiness all that really matters? What should we do when justice and freedom conflict with happiness or with each other? Should we always obey the law? Is taxation legalised theft? This course introduces students to moral and political philosophy by examining ideas and arguments about how we should live our personal, social and political lives.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Semester Two 2024 (Distance)
Special non-calendar-based Two 2024 (UC Online)
Special non-calendar-based Four 2024 (UC Online)
Points
15 points
ACCT152
Law and Business
Description
An introduction to the legal environment of business in New Zealand including the Treaty of Waitangi and the Bill of Rights, and concepts of contract, tort, trusts, property and law of principal and agent.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Points
15 points
Restrictions
ACIS152, AFIS151, AFIS152
MAOR165
Tuakiri : Culture and Identity
Description
What does it mean to live in Aotearoa/New Zealand in the 21st century? This course examines identity as a lived experience for Maori and non-Maori and how it shapes our thinking at individual, organisation and systemic levels in this country. The course also focusses on contemporary issues arising from identity tensions, enabling students to apply insights to effect positive social change in order to work effectively in a bicultural manner.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester One 2024 (Distance)
Semester Two 2024
Semester Two 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points

Not Offered Courses in 2024

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)