New Zealand Studies

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 is an introduction to listening, reading, writing, and translation techniques used in the composition, reading, and understanding of basic Maori. It is designed for students with little or no knowledge of the language and for those with some fluency wishing to understand simple sentence structure and composition. The class focuses on the basic structure of simple sentences in Maori so that students can compose, read, and understand basic Maori. Students also learn a set of terms which enable them to talk about and analyze the structure of Maori and many other languages. Another skill students acquire is the ability to translate Maori sentences and simple texts into English and English sentences into Maori.

This course examines examines the concept of 'youth' and the historical, economic and political contexts in which young people live and are schooled in New Zealand society. The concept of youth is explored as a fundamental aspect of human development, identity and culture. The ways that we learn about what it is to be a young person in New Zealand today, including sport, body image, media, music, technology and social networking will be explored.