New Zealand Studies

This subject explores traditional and contemporary relationships between tangata whenua and the urban environment in Aotearoa New Zealand. It examines how Māori worldviews shape urban planning practice, with a focus on the impact of Treaty of Waitangi settlements. Key topics include Indigenous development, governance, and resource management, as well as the responsiveness of planning processes to Māori values and aspirations.

This course focuses on political parties and major policy debates in New Zealand. Topics include the ideologies and action principles of major parties, shifts in inequality and the welfare state, state funding of political parties, relations between central and local government, Te Tiriti o Waitangi, and environmental policy.

This course examines Indigenous, Māori ways of understanding, doing, and creating history. It also examines how Māori historical frameworks engage with the legal and political processes of the Waitangi Tribunal.