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Te Tohu Toi Tangata: The Bachelor of Humanities 

Programme Overview

Level of Study: 7

Representing a new phase of development for Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi, this innovative programme offers students the flexibility and freedom to design their own three-year degree course to reflect their interests and career plans. Students will have the opportunity to gain skills, experience and insight across a number of different majors, including Māori Studies, Indigenous Business, Multimedia Graphic Design, Policy and Indigenous Studies. The qualification will broaden students’ range of career options, preparing them to meet the changing demands of today’s job market.

Duration: 3 years
Location: Whakatāne and Tāmaki Makaurau
Start Date: 13/02/2012
Finish Date: 18/11/2012
Applications Close: 23/01/2012
Delivery Mode: Lecture, noho and online
2012 Estimated Annual Fees: $4977
N.B. You will be required to contribute toward the cost of study. The fee above is based on the 2011 domestic fees schedule. While the fees are indicative, you can expect that final tuition fees will not exceed the amount shown.

Entry Details

Entry is open to applicants who meet the following requirements:
Minimum Age: 16 years old
Minimum Qualifications: Entry is open to applicants who: have successfully completed a relevant Level 4 certificate; or have obtained a minimum of 42 credits at Level 3 or higher on the National Qualifications Framework, including a minimum of 14 credits at Level 3 or higher in each of two subjects from the NZQA-approved subject list (refer to programme document).
Additional Qualifications: Students wishing to enrol in the Bachelor of Humanities must provide evidence of their ability to successfully pursue and complete a bachelor’s degree.

Career Opportunities:

Communications, advertising, arts, media, graphic design, education, business, health providers, public service, local councils and local bodies, Māori/indigenous organisations and communities, policy analyst, consumer and industry research, Rūnanga, Māori trusts, land-based incorporations, ICT.

Further Study:

Tertiary study at Postgraduate level:

  • Master of Indigenous Studies;
  • Master of Māori Studies.

Detailed Course Information (Year 1)

Course Code: MAO130
Course Type: Core
Course Title: Whare Wānanga Development
Description: This course analyses the reasons for the establishment of Whare Wānanga as tertiary institutions by Māori. By exploring social, political and cultural contexts in Aotearoa, students will examine Māori responses to historical and contemporary provisions of education for Māori.
Course Code: MAO101
Course Type: Core (not creditable toward a major)
Course Title: Beginners Māori Language 1: Te Whakatōtanga
Description: This course is a basic introduction to Māori language which teaches: pronunciation, basic greetings, nominal sentences, counting, verbal sentences and ownership through a communicative methodology.
Course Code: MAO102
Course Type: Core (not creditable toward a major)
Course Title: Beginners Māori Language 2: Te Whakatōtanga
Description: This course follows on from MAO101 and develops conversational and communication skills with regard to: relationships between people, possessions, likes and dislikes, weather, seasons, expressions of feelings as well as everyday activities such as shopping, trips, social events and health issues.
Course Code: MAO103
Course Type: Core
Course Title: Te Ao Māori: The Māori World
Description: This course provides an introduction to traditional Māori society and culture covering areas such as: mythology, migration traditions, social structure, spiritual beliefs, land tenure, marae protocols and oral traditions.
Course Code: MAO104
Course Type: Core or Major
Major Title: Māori Studies
Course Title: Elementary Māori Language 1: Te Tipuranga
Description: This course develops conversational skills in everyday activities such as: habits, routines, events, giving instructions, forms of travel, past and present activities, current events and literature in Māori.
Course Code: MAO105
Course Type: Core or Major
Major Title: Māori Studies
Course Title: Elementary Māori Language 2: Te Tipuranga
Description: This course follows on from MAO104 and develops communication and conversational skills in making invitations and suggestions, plans for the future, seeking and giving permission, selling and purchasing as well as Māori tribal and oral traditions.
Course Code: MAO106
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Māori Studies
Course Title: Te Kawa o te Marae. The Protocol of the Marae
Description: The course examines the concepts, practices and philosophies underpinning marae protocol
Course Code: RAU101
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Multimedia Graphic Design
Course Title: Introduction to Multimedia
Description: This course introduces students to a variety of multimedia applications. It will help to develop a range of fundamental computing skills, application-specific techniques and industry-based standards required by the multimedia, graphic and design industries.
Course Code: RAU102
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Multimedia Graphic Design
Course Title: Introduction to Design Techniques and Processes
Description: This course introduces students to design techniques and processes in visual communications. Learn various modes of visualisation, concept building and design vocabularies, computer-aided design techniques, compositional design (desktop publishing) and presentation processes.
Course Code: IND101
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Indigenous Studies
Course Title: Introduction to Indigenous Studies
Description: This course introduces the theorists and theories surrounding the development of concepts such as ethnicity, Indigeneity and culture. Students will study the usage of these terms historically and in contemporary contexts.
Course Code: IND102
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Indigenous Studies
Course Title: Introduction to Indigenous Cultures and Societies
Description: An introduction to indigenous tradition, culture and history, and its relevance in contemporary times. The course will cover origin and migration traditions; cultural knowledge, ethics values and protocols; traditional land ownership and use; the history of indigenous-European contact; indigenous leadership structures; and the Treaty of Waitangi.
Course Code: POL101
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Policy
Course Title: Introduction to Indigenous Politics and Development
Description: The aim of this course is to give students an overview of politics, political systems, and governance structures, and the implications these have on indigenous/Māori development. It will introduce students to theoretical concepts and frameworks of politics and political systems, including leadership, representation, mandate and authority across a range of cultural and national settings. An introduction to Development Theory as it relates to indigenous/Māori aspirations will also strengthen students’ awareness of the broader concepts and issues relating to indigenous advancement. Particular consideration will be given to the Treaty of Waitangi and the Aotearoa/New Zealand experiences in terms of State and indigenous power relationships.
Course Code: POL102
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Policy
Course Title: Introduction to Public Policy and Indigenous Administration
Description: This course aims to introduce students to the theoretical frameworks and concepts in which public policy operates and how these processes influence administration practices of Māori/indigenous resources. Particular attention will be given to how public policy discourse and implementation has evolved in Aotearoa/New Zealand within historical and contemporary settings. Consideration will also be given to how public policy is developed and operates at the interface with Māori/indigenous communities, especially with regard to Treaty of Waitangi expectations and responsibilities.
Course Code: INDB101
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Indigenous Business
Course Title: Introduction to Indigenous Business
Description: An introduction to the social, legislative and economic influences that affected indigenous business economies pre and post-European contact.
Course Code: INDB102
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Indigenous Business
Course Title: Fundamentals of Business Management
Description: This paper introduces students to the concept of management from both an indigenous and Western view and introduces the systems utilised by managers to achieve the outcomes required by stakeholders.

Detailed Course Information (Year 2)

Course Code: MAO203
Course Type: Core
Major Title: Māori Studies
Course Title: Te Ao Hurihuri: Contemporary Māori Society
Description: This course analyses Māori society since the arrival of the first Europeans to the present, examining the social, political and economic effects of colonisation upon Māori people.
Course Code: MAO201
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Māori Studies
Course Title: Intermediate Māori Language 1: Te Puāwaitanga
Description: This is an intermediate-level Māori language course that reinforces the knowledge acquired in MAO105 and further develops skills in conversation, communication, translation and the interpretation of oral and tribal traditions.
Course Code: MAO202
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Māori Studies
Course Title: Intermediate Māori Language 2: Te Puāwaitanga
Description: This course follows on from MAO201 and teaches skills in communicating about problems and solutions, plans, hopes and intentions, as well as formal oratory. The course also develops skills in research and writing in the Māori language.
Course Code: MAO204
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Māori Studies
Course Title: Mātauranga-ā-waha. Māori Oral Arts
Description: This course examines the Māori verbal arts of karakia, karanga, whaikōrero and waiata mōteatea as they are practised on the marae and in formal situations.
Course Code: MAO205
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Māori Studies
Course Title: Ngā Waiata me ngā Haka. Māori Song and Dance
Description: This course focuses on the symbolism, traditions and performance of Māori song and dance including: waiata mōteatea, haka and waiata-ā-ringa.
Course Code: RAU201
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Multimedia Graphic Design
Course Title: Multimedia Production
Description: This course introduces students to multimedia pre/post-production techniques. They will develop knowledge and skills in digital audio, graphic and video production; from planning and recording to basic non-linear editing and post-production. The introduction of basic digital theory and practical concepts will help to develop capabilities associated with the hardware, equipment and software tools used in the digital media industry.
Course Code: RAU202
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Multimedia Graphic Design
Course Title: Application of Design Techniques and Processes
Description: This course develops the students’ design techniques and processes in visual communications. Students will analyse and research design briefs to create design workflow and develop rationales then conceptualise ideas and apply visual compositions. It will further the student’s knowledge of computer-aided design techniques, photography and compositional design (desktop publishing) to final art and presentation stage.
Course Code: RAU203
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Multimedia Graphic Design
Course Title: Culture and the Media: A Critical Study
Description: This course investigates culture’s effects on media and media’s effects on culture. Through media representation, develop awareness of colonising, decolonising and indigenising media theories. The colonising of media reinforces the cultural norms and power-relations of some cultures over others, misrepresenting indigenous peoples. The decolonising of media is the transformation space of intellectual and cultural property rights. The indigenising of media is media controlled for, by and with indigenous peoples’ values and culture.
Course Code: IND201
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Indigenous Studies
Course Title: Indigenous ethnicity and identity
Description: This course aims to provide the student with the skills to compare and contrast the experiences of Māori with other indigenous peoples and examine parallel issues and development pathways. The course focuses on Pasifika nations. However, in their assignments students may wish to utilise material from their own area, such as Hawaii, Canada, or the United States.
Course Code: IND202
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Indigenous Studies
Course Title: Marginalising difference in Māori and Indigenous Societies
Description: The course aims to provide students with the skills to critically examine issues of representation, participation, race and gender in contemporary indigenous societies.
Course Code: IND203
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Indigenous Studies
Course Title: Indigenous Cultural Heritage
Description: The aim of this course is to provide students with an understanding of cultural heritage as both the physical tangible artefacts and the intangible attributes of a society: a total interrelationship between natural environment, historic places and objects, people, knowledge, practices, values, beliefs and ethics. The course will draw upon the theoretical and knowledge frameworks that have been developed through the other courses in the Indigenous Studies Major.
Course Code: POL201
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Policy
Course Title: Politics of Indigenous Affairs and the State
Description: This course aims to equip students with the necessary skills and knowledge to examine and critique the contexts in which indigenous and State relationships exist. A comparative analysis will be examined in terms of Western and indigenous approaches to representation, mandate and leadership. Particular attention will be given to tensions and/or solutions that arise between indigenous aspirations for self-determination and government preferences for sovereign authority as a Nation State. The experiences of indigenous/State relationships in Aotearoa/New Zealand will be used in the first instance as a case study. Where appropriate, comparisons with other indigenous experiences will be explored.
Course Code: POL202
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Policy
Course Title: Comparative principles and contexts of Indigenous Policy Development and Administration
Description: This course aims to equip students with the necessary skills and knowledge to examine and critique the models and applications of public policy across a number of settings and experiences particularly as it relates to indigenous advancement. An in-depth analysis of the stages of the policy cycle will be explored. A comparative analysis will also be examined in terms of Western and indigenous approaches to policy development and administration. Consideration will be given to comparative organisational structures including governance/management systems that have been applied in terms of sustainable policy development.
Course Code: POL210
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Policy
Course Title: Principles of Indigenous Development
Description: This course aims to provide students with the necessary skills and understanding to examine and critique the sites and contexts in which indigenous development occurs. An in-depth analysis of development planning, implementing and managing resources will be explored. A comparative analysis will also be undertaken in terms of Western and indigenous approaches to development, planning and administration. Consideration will be given to comparative organisational structures including governance/management systems that have been applied in terms of sustainable resource management.
Course Code: INDB201
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Indigenous Business
Course Title: Organisational Theory
Description: This paper introduces students to research into the complexities of an “organisation”, the theories associated with “organisational development” and how such theories impact on indigenous business.
Course Code: INDB202
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Indigenous Business
Course Title: Effective Principles of Governance within an Indigenous Context
Description: This course provides students with a critical overview of the fundamentals of Governance, predominantly from an indigenous peoples’ perspective, through an exploration of current and potential future practices.
Course Code: INDB203
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Indigenous Business
Course Title: Monitoring Business Performance within an Indigenous Context
Description: Students on this course will be introduced to a range of performance-monitoring tools and techniques, including financial, human, input and output and compliance, and will learn how these tools can be applied across a range of entities including indigenous businesses.

Detailed Course Information (Year 3)

Course Code: MAO301
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Māori Studies
Course Title: Te Pakaritanga 1: Advanced Māori Language
Description: This is an advanced Māori language course which follows on from MAO202. Students learn how to communicate about future plans, offer and respond to advice, express approval and disapproval, debate and discuss issues and express deep thoughts, reasons and opinions on various issues. The course also develops oral and written research skills in Māori.
Course Code: MAO302
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Māori Studies
Course Title: Te Pakaritanga 2: Advanced Māori Language
Description: This advanced course in Māori language follows on from MAO301. The course reinforces and develops advanced skills in communication, reasoning, debating and researching contemporary social and political topics in the Māori language.
Course Code: MAO303
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Māori Studies
Course Title: Mātauranga Māori me te Rangahau-a-iwi. Māori Knowledge and Tribal Research
Description: This course examines Māori research and Māori epistemology or knowledge systems. The course develops skills in researching whānau, hapū and iwi histories though the analysis of primary and secondary sources in Māori and English.
Course Code: RAU301
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Multimedia Graphic Design
Course Title: Advanced Multimedia Production
Description: Further develops multimedia post-production knowledge and techniques in the digital editing environment. Introduces a more in-depth focus on multi-track audio recording systems, data/signal processing, image and video manipulation. This includes innovative and creative design principles for post-production in a commercial environment. Students will also examine the issues, implications and psychology associated with multimedia technologies.
Course Code: RAU302
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Multimedia Graphic Design
Course Title: Advanced Design Techniques and Processes
Description: This course is for students with advanced understanding of design techniques and processes in visual communications. Students will develop their own briefs and workflow, create rationales, conceptualise ideas and visual compositions, apply advanced computer-aided design techniques, photography and compositional design to final art and submit a number of projects for assessment. Taught in a studio environment.
Course Code: RAU303
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Multimedia Design
Course Title: Māori Media
Description: Investigate and critically analyse the indigenising of media for Māori – media controlled for, by and with Māori. Understand the role of the media in Māori cultural revival, protection and preservation using a Tiriti o Waitangi framework.
Course Code: IND301
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Indigenous Studies
Course Title: Contemporary Indigenous Society and Culture
Description: This course aims to provide students with the skills to analyse the contemporary issues that are of concern to indigenous peoples: Māori and other non-Māori indigenous peoples. These will include issues of treaties and settlement claims, indigenous groups interaction, and building indigenous social capital into the 21st century.
Course Code: IND302
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Indigenous Studies
Course Title: Applied Indigenous Development
Description: This course aims to broaden students’ knowledge and understanding of development and resource management practices, which will enable them to apply what they have learnt to the aligned discipline and/or labour market sector. This is an applied base course which will involve a more practical than theoretical approach to student course learning. As such, students will be provided with real/virtual scenarios and challenges for which they will be expected to demonstrate the ability to apply theory for practical solutions.
Course Code: IND303
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Indigenous Studies
Course Title: Special Topic in Contemporary Indigenous Culture and Society
Description: This reading course draws from the work of both indigenous and non-indigenous theorists to critically examine a range of contemporary issues with which indigenous peoples are engaged. Students will study in depth selected topics from the field of indigenous studies through a programme of readings, seminars, and directed research. Students will be supervised by a lecturer in whose area they are studying.
Course Code: POL302
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Policy
Course Title: Applied Public Policy and Indigenous Applications
Description: This course aims to broaden and strengthen students’ knowledge and understanding of policy development and administration. The skills and tools acquired within this course will enable students to apply what they have learnt to an aligned discipline and/or labour market sector related to policy development. This is an applied base course which will involve a more practical than theoretical approach to course learning. As such, students will be provided with real/virtual scenarios and challenges for which they will be expected to demonstrate the ability to apply policy theory for practical solutions. Kaupapa Māori frameworks will be an integral part of all of the modes of delivery. An emphasis on written as well as oral communication skills and competencies relating to policy advice will be an important focus of this course.
Course Code: POL310
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Policy
Course Title: Applied Indigenous Development
Description: This course aims to broaden students’ knowledge and understanding of development and resource management practices. It will enable them to apply what they have learnt immediately to the aligned discipline and/or labour market sector. This is an applied base course which will involve a more practical than theoretical approach to student course learning. As such, students will be provided with real/virtual scenarios and challenges for which they will be expected to demonstrate the ability to apply theory for practical solutions.
Course Code: POL320
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Policy
Course Title: Applied Research: Research Topic
Description: This is a special topic paper in which a student undertakes a supervised research project related to indigenous/Māori politics, development and/or public policy areas. Where appropriate, students will be encouraged to undertake a small research assignment in collaboration with a Māori organisation, community or government department. The project must demonstrate how it will contribute or add value to Māori wellbeing/development. Please note that entry into this paper is restricted to the availability of a supervisor and a student’s grades.
Course Code: INDB301
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Indigenous Business
Course Title: Leadership within an Indigenous Context
Description: Leadership has been described as the “process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task”. This course provides an introduction to the theory and practice of leadership relevant to all persons in for-profit and not-for-profit organisations. Western, indigenous and gender leadership styles are analysed and deconstructed. The course will provide students with the opportunity for personal dimensions of leadership to be explored and reflected upon.
Course Code: INDB302
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Indigenous Business
Course Title: Strategic Thinking within an Indigenous Business Context
Description: This course examines the concepts of strategic thinking in a practical business-related manner as well as its theoretical and empirical underpinning. The student will understand and be able to apply the concept and practice of strategic thinking and relate such practice specifically to indigenous business.
Course Code: INDB303
Course Type: Major
Major Title: Indigenous Business
Course Title: Contemporary Indigenous Business Models
Description: This course aims to provide students with the skills to analyse the contemporary issues that are of concern to indigenous business and find solutions to overcome these issues. This experience will provide students with the opportunity to learn (first hand) about the realities of indigenous business; and develop implementable and practical business solutions in areas such as planning, marketing, communication and reporting.

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