University of Auckland

This course is a study of key issues in development, with a focus on early and middle childhood. Topics include family, peer, cultural, and media influences on typical and atypical development.

This course provides an introduction to the study of psychology as it relates to human behavior and performance in sport settings. It examines how practice and competition environments give rise to psychological states (e.g., motivation, anxiety, fatigue) that impact on motor learning, visuo-motor control and sport performance. It reviews evidence for the use of several psychological skills (e.g., arousal regulation, attention control, goal-setting, imagery, thought control) and apply models of psychological skills training to design evidence-based interventions that aim to improve performance in individual athletes and sport teams.

This course examines alternative sport and games young people play in Aotearoa New Zealand and internationally. It explores a range of non-traditional and non-competitive physical activities. It reflects on the socio-cultural dimensions of these types of physical activities, including an examination of how alternative sport enables young people to learn, play, communicate, create, express themselves, and belong.

This course considers the various ways in which actions, processes and materials can shape a painting practice. It covers a range of painterly actions and a self-generated list of ‘paint-related’ verbs (to roll, to smudge, to scrape). A broad range of traditional, modern and expanded paint properties and mediums will be considered.

This course examines both theories and practices of safe dance and the integration of somatic practices within dance education, performance and health contexts. Anatomy, kinesiology, nutrition, injury prevention and rehabilitation, conditioning, and psychological well-being will be studied in relation to dance practices. Topics covered include: studio based experiential anatomy; fundamental conditioning practices; warming up/cooling down; safe dance environments as a dancer, dance educator, or leader; nutrition; psychological issues in dance; injury prevention, rehabilitation, and management; current dance medicine and science research; pain and pain management; body image and related issues.

This course is an introduction to the philosophy and use of models in the study of a range of environmental systems, including coastal, ecological, fluvial, atmospheric and social. 

This introductory course in economics focuses on the major economic issues and phenomena that are routinely encountered in daily discussion of events in the media. 

This course examines innovation and sustainability of pacific peoples in the pacific and within the pacific communities of Aotearoa. It explores the adaptability and innovation of pacific peoples to create sustainable communities that embody both traditional cultural values and identities, and are also focused on future development, opportunity, mobility, and communal success.

This course examines key theoretical concepts around gender and sexuality from an interdisciplinary lens with a focus on the Pacific. It explores the intersections of race, sex, biology, ableism, colonialism, nationality, politics and social movements in our constructions/understanding of gender in a Pacific and global context.

This course examines for embedded system design using the SOPC (system on a programmable chip) approach. It covers embedded applications, microprocessors, microcontrollers, architecture, organization, programming memories, I/O interfacing, sensors, actuators, analog interfaces, hardware/software partitioning and interfacing, concurrency, and implementing data transformations and reactivity.