New Zealand

This course examines key ideas and concepts about the family, as well as looking at how issues like poverty and disability impact upon the family. This course will help students consider multiple perspectives on the family; engage in key debates about the family and its construction; and reflect on their own personal experiences and reactions to the family in all its forms in the broader structural contexts of Aotearoa/New Zealand society.

This course examines the impact of components of the hydrological cycle on the South West Pacific, particularly New Zealand, including evaporation and precipitation, terrestrial water movement and storage (surface and groundwater), and extreme events.

This course examines the scientific basis for, impacts of, and law and policy responses to climate change.

This course examines ecological processes, urban resilience and growth in an urban context. It explores how urban planning systems can work in sympathy with, or in contradiction to, such processes, and the implications of this for urban planning practice.

This course entails completing an interdisciplinary group project on a topic of relevance to the scientific or wider community. 

This course examines topics in physical and inorganic chemistry. It covers atoms and the periodic table; chemical bonding; reduction and oxidation reactions; properties of gases; introduction to thermodynamics; kinetics; chemical equilibrium; Gibbs energy and the second law of thermodynamics; aqueous chemistry; acid-base equilibrium.

This course examines how social, political, cultural and material conditions shape scientific work and how science, in turn, shapes society. Because of the central role of science, technology and medicine in driving modern developments, understanding the relationships among science, technology and society is crucial for understanding the history of humanity and the contemporary world. 

This course examines Mātauranga Māori and Māori narratives through design, using both analogue and digital techniques.
 
 

This course examines fundamentals of experimental design, data management, and data visualization.