University of Otago

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 examines how magmatism has shaped Earth, how magma forms and evolves physically and chemically to make igneous rocks, and what controls its subterranean emplacement or volcanic eruption.

In this course students will develop a basic conversational fluency and proficiency in the pronunciation of the Māori language. Students will learn some basic sentence structure patterns, gaining confidence in using these patterns both in writing and in speaking, as well as aural confidence in listening to basic Māori language.

This course examines current issues in the study of psychological disorders. It presents an introduction to a range of psychological disorders of childhood and adulthood and highlights the scientist-practitioner approach that is applied in clinical psychology.

This course examines practical elements of studio-based television production.

This course examines physical, chemical and biological processes and their co-dependencies in the global ocean system.

This course examines how innovation and entrepreneurship can be applied in practice to help the health, wealth and well-being of social and environmental organizations and communities.