100-level

PACS102
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
Points
15 points
Restrictions
MAOR107
PACS111
The Global Pacific
Description
This course provides a rich foundation of the history, diversity, and contemporary issues of the Pacific, including the diaspora of Pacific communities. Students will learn about Indigenous Pacific epistemologies, world views, cultures, knowledges, identities, and experiences. Students will also explore key Pacific structures, systems, cultures, and societies in the changing modern world. Pacific agency, the transnationalism of Pacific identity, and critical contemporary issues of sustainability and innovation will provide essential knowledge for students who want to explore further into areas of inclusion, diversity, empowerment, and positive transformation.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester One 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points

200-level

PACS211
The Contemporary and Transnational Pacific
Description
This course examines the contemporary interface of global forces that reconfigure the organisation of power within the Pacific. An exploration of transnational processes, paradigms and conceptualisations of the local, national, regional and global impacts will be explored with a critical lens of inclusion, diversity and empowerment. Students will analyse theoretical and conceptual underpinnings of global politics, education, health, wellbeing, employment, identity and power. Key research about Pacific community engagement and the economic relations between the islands, Aotearoa and the Pacific region will be supported by the perspectives of local and national Pacific community leaders. Contemporary issues related to colonialism, migration, racism, postcolonial contexts, aid in the Pacific, security and the role of the social media will also be critically analysed.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester One 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 45 points at 100-level
PACS221
Pacific Sustainability and Climate Resilience
Description
This course examines ways in which community-based and indigenous innovation have been used to build up strategies of adaptation and resilience in oceanic communities, focusing on the Pacific. Deconstructing the deficit narratives characterising the Pacific Islands as inherently susceptible and reconceptualising the concepts of resilience and sustainability for socio-ecological justice is a key component of this course. Through thousands of years of navigation around the largest ocean on the planet and adapting to extreme weather systems such as cyclones and other climate change induced calamities, Pacific peoples have developed a high level of human innovation and resilience, which have formed their cultural strategies for survival. Community and indigenous knowledge relating to buildings, adaptive social organization, food security, farming, environmental restoration, coastal management will be explored. The critical issues of sustainability, resilience and adaptation to climate change and other natural and human created challenges in the Pacific. The Pacific Islands are at the forefront of extreme weather patterns and the course examines the ways in which indigenous knowledge, humanities, science and technology can work together to respond to the expanding and deepening environmental and human impacts.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Semester Two 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Prerequisites
Any 45 points at 100-level

300-level

PACS303
International Politics: Aotearoa New Zealand Foreign Policy
Description
This course will critically examine Aotearoa New Zealand’s past and present foreign policy while exploring future foreign policy directions.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Points
30 points
Prerequisites
Any 30 points at 200 level from PACS or POLS, or any 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA.
Restrictions
POLS308

Not Offered Courses in 2024

100-level

PACS101
Peopling the Pacific
Description
People, Migration and Culture in the Pacific
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014
For further information see PACS101 course details
Points
15 points

200-level

PACS202
The Pacific Islands: Early European and Polynesian Visions
Description
This course looks at how European and Polynesian visions of 'the other' have intersected over the course of the last five centuries within the Pacific region
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014
For further information see PACS202 course details
Points
15 points

300-level

PACS302
The Pacific Islands: Early European and Polynesian Visions
Description
This course looks at how European and Polynesian visions of 'the other' have intersected over the course of the last five centuries within the Pacific region
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014
For further information see PACS302 course details
Points
30 points