New Zealand

This course examines literary classics that have attracted controversy for reasons including political content; issues of morality/obscenity; transgressing conventions of form; polemical works; questions of authorial identity and authenticity; and controversies over prizes and literary merit.

This course examines the interactions of biological and physical processes in the ocean and how physical processes regulate productivity and distribution of organisms in oceanic and coastal ecosystems, from the microscale to the macroscale.

This course examines how basic principles of behavior analysis (e.g. operant conditioning) can be used across a range of situations to modify behavior. Situations include classroom behavior management, physical activity and exercise, child safety, and sustainability.

This course is about designing and making textiles through the investigation of material, form, surface, color and mark.

This course compares and contrasts pre-colonial, colonial and 'post-colonial' experiences of eastern and western Polynesian societies. Students are introduced to a range of sources for historical research, including indigenous sources.

This course examines a wide range of Maori writing in English, and situates these works within a vast and vibrant whakapapa of Maori creative production in Aotearoa and beyond. Key themes within the course include: purakau and their contemporary retellings, Maori futurism(s), representations of kai and palate politics, the relationship between birds, writers, and the written word, and narrative sovereignty.

This course introduces students to descriptive and analytical methods in structural geology. Geological maps are used to help students analyze structural features (e.g., folds, faults, contacts). 

This course examines the dynamic microfoundations of macroeconomics, and demonstrates how we can utilize these foundations to understand the trends and fluctuations of macroeconomic aggregates like national output, unemployment, inflation and interest rates, and to predict the outcome of alternative government policies related to current economic problems of New Zealand and the rest of the world.

This course aims to develop oral skills and confidence in pronunciation of Samoan vocabulary, speaking and understanding conversational Samoan.

This course examines the knowledge, skills and attitudes needed to be able to investigate and report on the sustainability of proposed site-specific land-uses in the context of dynamic Earth surface system behaviors. Specific topics studied will include principles of landscape evolution; the use of remote sensing data and computer simulations to analyze and understand surface processes; geomorphological mapping; response of rivers to changing environmental conditions; and synthesis of knowledge and skills in technical report production.