New Zealand

Sport has profoundly impacted Pacific peoples and cultures, playing critical roles in colonialism and education in the past, to migration and commercialization in the present. Sport has changed Pacific cultures and been changed by Pacific cultures. Pacific cultural encounters with globalization, race, capitalism, migration, and public discourse are explored through the experience of sport.

This course examines knowledge, power, and the importance of critical self-reflection as it relates to liberation and democracy. This course draws on a variety of critical approaches and theories to examine key concepts and issues as they relate to the grander dialogues that exist within the discipline of sociology. Course content includes a range of issues, including: power, knowledge, educating for critical consciousness, race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, capitalism and neoliberalism.

This course is an introduction to the study of language, and language issues in the community. The course covers general features of language, such as the inevitability of language change and the importance of structure dependence. Students explore popular misconceptions about language, examining why they are erroneous.

The Management Internship provides students with the opportunity to apply their management discipline-based knowledge to an authentic project within an organization.

This course examines the application of basic principles of counselling to the needs of individual children, adults, couples, families, and other groups. Students learn to understand the concept, aims, principles, and theoretical foundations of counselling as applied within the community; to recognize the different aspects of the "human condition" that may benefit from specialized counselling; to be familiar with the many and varied cultures within the community and how they might access counseling; to develop an awareness of the counseling services within the community; and to engage in personal and professional reflection.

This course looks at Indigenous epistemological formations of sustainability as one of the most pressing issues for Indigenous peoples particularly in the Pacific, and also as a concept where Indigenous peoples can be prominent in influencing discourses. Over the course of the semester, the course explore Indigenous environmental ethics and approaches to sustainability in a range of local, regional and international sites, with the geographic focus primarily on Aotearoa, the Pacific region, and North America.

This course explores the theories and arguments presented by philosophers who have addressed questions such as: Is art purely cultural or partly biological? Is art old or an invention of 18th-century Europe? What definitions are plausible and if none are, how does the concept cohere? How does the philosophy of art differ from aesthetics as traditionally conceived? In what manner do works of art exist? What constraints are there on the interpretation of art? Do artistic evaluations always contain a personal element? How does an abstract art form express emotion? Why are we moved by the fate of characters we know to be fictional? Why are we drawn to tragedies when we know the experience of them is unpleasant? How do paintings represent what they picture? Can we learn from art truths about the actual world?

This course examines child and adolescent development within an applied developmental psychology framework. It also evaluates key theories and evidence on a range of issues and challenges that influence child and adolescent development.