University of Auckland

This course examines empowering notions of Pacific wellbeing for Pacific individuals, families and communities. Students explore definitions of Pacific wellbeing and the cultural concepts, models, practices and worldviews that have enhanced the overall positive wellbeing experiences of Pacific peoples across the Pacific region.

This course examines the medium of comics both as a visual language and as a means of communication. Beginning with a history of comics, the course considers a variety of storytelling techniques, ranging from comics journalism to graphic medicine, from activism to indigeneity, as well as superheroes, the underground, and manga.

This course examines historical and contemporary drivers of design as a maker of socio-cultural meaning. Students will learn fundamental design principles used for communication and sense-making, applied across a variety of mediums and technologies. Students will be introduced to tikanga Māori and to the main ethical, socio-cultural, economic and environmental propellants of design.

This course examines human-centred design methods and tools that range from problem framing to prototyping, modelling, and validating solution ideas. Students will address a variety of briefs based on real-world problems and contexts, exploring their personal creative potential through a series of hands-on projects supported by presentations.

In this course, students will undertake a studio art project that responds to the challenges of the Anthropocene and climate change. The course explores related art and ideas from Aotearoa and overseas.

This course examines enterprising behavior in a multi-disciplinary manner relevant to understanding and addressing real world challenges of today. It introduces skills needed to identify and assess opportunities, solve problems creatively, communicate persuasively, work effectively in teams, and understand individual and organizational impact.

This course examines humans as social beings. It covers topics such as social cognition, attitudes, group processes, interpersonal relationships, and language communication. 

This course examines Pacific history from the Indigenous occupation of the Pacific to the late 1900s. It introduces the major narratives of the Pacific, using historical examples from all over the Pacific to highlight keys events and trends in Pacific history. It also focuses on the ways in which this history has been constructed and seeks to analyze Indigenous Pacific ways of telling history.