University of Waikato

This course examines the physical processes that influence the distribution of water across Aotearoa-New Zealand. Topics covered include synoptic meteorology; cloud and precipitation formation; processes that affect the availability of water resources across the diverse landscapes of Aotearoa; river flow regimes; and the potential effects of climate change this century.

This course provides an opportunity for interdisciplinary teamwork on solutions for a sustainability problem posed by a local organization.

This course examines evolutionary principles, examining the history and philosophy of evolutionary thought, the mechanisms and products of evolution, and speciation, using up-to-date evidence and analysis of a diversity of life forms.

This course looks at the detrimental effects that research has historically had on Indigenous peoples and the relatively recent creation of research methodologies by Indigenous peoples to counteract Imperial research, and to empower and decolonize.

This course examines the political, social, and moral dimensions of what people say and what they know. It covers how speech is connected with moral wrongness, harm, liberty, resistance, and social justice and how knowledge may be inextricably linked with what we hear and learn from news media, social media, radio, television, and the internet. It considers some contemporary topics in social epistemology and philosophy of language such as lying, bullshitting, dogwhistling, grandstanding, misleading, and silencing.

This course examines health and wellbeing from Māori and Pacific perspectives, including models and frameworks in relation to health, sport, human performance, and nursing.

This course examines reasoning about human rights. It covers what we mean when we talk about Human Rights and asking whether the concept of Human Rights makes sense. When examining particular claimed Human Rights, it looks at how are they talked about, breached, enforced, theorized. Examples may include: the right not to be enslaved, the right not to be tortured, LGBT rights, animal rights and climate rights.