General Education course descriptions

You can choose General Education courses from the schedules that apply to your degree. If you don't know which courses you can choose from, see General Education courses by degree.

»: Schedule A: Music, Art and Contemporary Society

»: Schedule B: Humanities and Social Sciences

»: Schedule C: Business and Society

»: Schedule D: Life Sciences

»: Schedule E: Physical Sciences

»: Schedule F: Mathematical and Information Sciences

»: Schedule G: Communication

»: Schedule H: Languages

Schedule A: Music, Art and Contemporary Society

Course code	Course title
ARCHHTC 102G	Modern Architecture and Urbanism
ANTHRO 106G	Issues and History in Popular Music
DANCE 101G	Introduction to Dance and Creative Processes
DANCE 200G	Dance and Culture
FINEARTS 210G	Understanding Contemporary Visual Arts Practice
GENED 101G	Global Issues, Sustainable Futures
GEOG 103G	Digital Worlds
GEOG 104G	Cities and Urbanism
LAW 121G	Law and Society
MUS 144G	Turning-points in Western Music
MUS 149G	New Zealand Music Studies
PLANNING 100G	Creative Communities: An Introduction to Planning
POPHLTH 104G	Future Health*
THEOLOGY 101G	The Bible in Popular Culture

*Course not offered in 2012. This course will be offered again in 2013.

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Schedule B: Humanities and Social Sciences

Course code	Course title
ANTHRO 104G	Peoples and Cultures of the Pacific
ANTHRO 105G	Questions of Race and Racism
ARTHIST 115G	Global Art Histories
ASIAN 140G	New Zealand and Asia
CLASSICS 110G	Classical Mythology through Tragedy
COMPLIT 100G	Reading Comparatively*
DISABLTY 113G	Making Disabilities: The Construction of Ideas
EDUC 121G	How People Learn
EDUC 122G	Learning Sexualities
ENGLISH 241G	Literature and Science*
EUROPEAN 100G	Thinking Europe
FTVMS 110G	Advertising and Society
FTVMS 215G	Reading Contemporary Films
HISTORY 103G	Global History
LINGUIST 101G	Language and Society
MĀORI 130G	Te Ao Māori / The Māori World
POLITICS 107G	New Zealand Politics
SOCIOL 101G	Understanding Aotearoa New Zealand Summer School Semester One
SOCIOL 220G	Last Call: The Sociology of Death and Dying
YOUTHWRK 152G	Understanding New Zealand Youth

*Course not offered in 2012.

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Schedule C: Business and Society

Course code	Course title
ACCTG 151G	Financial Literacy
COMLAW 151G	The (Un)Lawful World: Law in Contemporary Life*
ECON 151G	Understanding the Global Economy
INTBUS 151G	Firms across Frontiers: An Introduction to International Business
MKTG 151G	Essential Marketing (PDF)

*Course not offered in 2012.

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Schedule D: Life Sciences

You cannot take these courses for General Education if you have a concurrent or prior enrolment in a course in any of the following subjects: BIOSCI, ENVSCI, MEDSCI, MARINE, PHARMACY, PSYCH, or SPORTSCI. You may only take one course from this Schedule.

Course code	Course title
BIOSCI 100G	Antartica: The Frozen Continent
BIOSCI 104G	New Zealand Ecology and Conservation
ENVSCI 101G	Environment, Science and Management
MEDSCI 100G	Human Mind and Body Relationships
MEDSCI 101G	Environmental Threats to Human Health
PHARMACY 111G	Drugs and Society
POPHLTH 103G	Epidemics: Black Death to Bioterrorism
PSYCH 109G	Mind, Brain and Behaviour
SPORTSCI 100G	Exercise and Fitness: Myths and Reality

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Schedule E: Physical Sciences

You cannot take these courses for General Education if you have a concurrent or prior enrolment in a course in any of the following subjects: CHEM, CHEMMAT, ENGGEN, GEOG, GEOLOGY or PHYSICS. You may only take one course from this Schedule.

Course code	Course title
CHEM 100G	Molecules that Changed the World
CHEMMAT 100G	Materials of the Modern World CHEMMAT 100G course flyer (PDF 675kB)
ENGGEN 100G	Technological Choices for the New Millennium
GEOG 105G	Natural Hazards in New Zealand
GEOLOGY 205G	New Zealand - Half a Billion Years on the Edge
PHYSICS 107G	Planets, Stars and Galaxies
PHYSICS 108G	Science and Technology of Sustainable Energy

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Schedule F: Mathematical and Information Sciences

You cannot take these courses for General Education if you have a concurrent or prior enrolment in a course in any of the following subjects: COMPSCI, ENGGEN, ENGSCI, INFOSYS, MATHS, PSYCH or STATS. You may only take one course from this Schedule.

Course code	Course title
COMPSCI 111G	Mastering Cyberspace: Introduction to Practical Computing
MATHS 101G	Mathematics in Society
MATHS 190G	Great Ideas Shaping our World
STATS 101G	Introduction to Statistics
STATS 150G	Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics

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Schedule G: Communication

Course code	Course title
BUSINESS 151G	Communication in a Multicultural Society
ENGLISH 121G	Reading/Writing/Texts
PHIL 105G	Critical Thinking
SCIGEN 101G	Communicating for a Knowledge Society

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Schedule H: Languages

You cannot take these courses for General Education if you have a concurrent or prior enrolment in a course in any of the following subjects: CHINESE, COOKIS, CROATIAN, FRENCH, GERMAN, INDO, ITALIAN, JAPANESE, KOREAN, MAORI, POLISH, RUSSIAN, SAMOAN, SPANISH or TONGAN. You may only take one course from this Schedule.

Language courses do not satisfy the General Education requirement for a student who has prior knowledge of the language (for example, as a native speaker, through formal and informal study, or through living with others who speak the language). Enrolment requires submission of a language competency form and a student with prior knowledge of the language may be declined enrolment or the enrolment may be deleted at the discretion of the Head of Department.

Course code	Course title
CHINESE 100G	Beginning Modern Chinese 1
COOKIS 101G	Conversational Cook Islands Māori
FRENCH 101G	Introductory French Language 1
GERMAN 101G	German Language Introductory 1
ITALIAN 106G	Italian Language for Beginners 1
JAPANESE 130G	Introduction to Japanese Language 1
KOREAN 110G	Korean for Beginners 1
MĀORI 101G	Introduction to Written Māori
RUSSIAN 100G	Beginners’ Russian 1
SAMOAN 101G	Samoan Language 1
SPANISH 104G	Beginners’ Spanish 1
TONGAN 101G	Tongan Language 1

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