Courses with Pasifika content
Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington offers a significant selection of world-class courses and degrees that contain Pasifika content or have a Pasi
Students have access to a range of courses that explore the history, culture, politics and economics of the Pacific from different perspectives. These are available at pre-degree, undergraduate, postgraduate and post-experience levels.
Pasifika Pathways (Diploma in University Studies) is our one-year full-time diploma programme designed to help you transition to university. If you want to study at university but do not have university entrance or think you might need to gain some more skills first, then this is the right choice for you.
The Pacific Culture and Languages area of study provides a programme that analyses historical and contemporary phenomena through Pacific research methodologies and policy issues, alongside learning a Pacific language. The University supports building a research culture and publications on the Pacific by Pacific and other scholars and also works to mentor groups of young Pacific scholars as our future leaders.
The pre-degree—600 level courses shown here all incorporate elements of Pasifika focus and culture. Students from any school or faculty may be able to incorporate these courses as part of their study.
Pre-Degree
- PASP 001 Career Pathways
- PASP 002 University Pathways
- PASP 102 Pacific Nations Education
- PASP 103 Academic Skills A
- PASP 104 Academic Skills B
100 Level
- ACCY 130 Accounting for Decision-Making
- ANTH 101 Foundations of Society and Culture
- ANTH 102 Social and Cultural Diversity
- FILM 101 Introduction to Film Analysis
- GEOG 112 Introduction to Human Geography and Development Studies
- HIST 112 Islands and Peoples: Aotearoa New Zealand in World History
- MUSC 150 Music in Global Contexts
- PASI 101 The Pacific Heritage
- SAMO 101 Introduction to Samoan Language
- SAMO 102 Conversational Samoan
- THEA 101 The Live Act: Introduction to Theatre
200 Level
- ANTH 209 Conflict and Reconciliation
- ANTH 215 Special Topic: Capitalism, Culture, and Inequality
- CREW 260 Maori and Pasifika Creative Writing Workshop
- EDUC 224 Pacific Nations Education
- GEOG 212 Worlds of Development
- HIST 235 Special Topic: Telling NZ-Pacific Lives
- HLWB202 Health and Wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand
- LING 221 Sociolinguistics
- MAOR 216 Te Tiriti o Waitangi/The Treaty of Waitangi
- MAOR 217 Te Puwhenuatanga o Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa / The Peopling of Polynesia
- MDIA 221 Special Topic: Place, Race, Media
- PASI 201 Comparative History in Polynesia
- PASI 202 Globalisation and Popular Culture in the Pacific
- PUBL 205 Development Policy and Management
- SAMO 201 Samoan Language and Oratory
- SAMO 202 Fa'asinomaga ma Tusitusiga Samoa/Samoan literature
- THEA 211 From Whare Tapere to the Globe: Theatre of Aotearoa/New Zealand
- TXTT 201 Print, Communication and Culture
300 Level
- ARTH 336 Topics in Pacific Art
- CREW 260 Māori and Pasifika Creative Writing Workshop- Te Hiringa a Tuhi
- EDUC 322 Multi-ethnic Education
- EDUC 323 Contemporary Issues in Indigenous Education Aotearoa
- ESCI 301 Global Change: Earth Processes and History
- FILM 311 Documentary Film Production
- GEOG 316 Geographies of Globalisation
- GEOG 322 Islands and Oceans: People, Power and Place
- HIST 316 New Zealand Social History
- HIST 329 Special Topic: Telling NZ-Pacific Lives
- HIST 336 The Pacific Islands after 1945
- HLWB 311 Pasifika Health Development
- LAWS 309 The Criminal Justice Process
- LAWS 322 Judicial Review
- LAWS 329 Legal History
- LAWS 347 Pacific Legal Studies
- LAWS 365 Elements of Taxation
- LING 330 Advanced Sociolinguistics
- MAOR 316 Torangapu Maori/Maori Politics
- MUSC 351 Studies in Music and Dance of Oceania
- PASI 301 Framing the Pacific: Theorising Culture and Society
- POLS 355 Special Topic: The Politics of Nationalism
- SAMO 301 Samoan Language and Customs
- SAMO 302 Interpreting and Translation
- SARC 352 Pacific Designed Environments / Ngā Taiao o Te Moana-nui-a-Kiwa
- SCIS 301 ST: Historical Issues in Science in Society
- THEA 321 Special Topic: From Whare Tapere to the Globe: Theatre of Aotearoa/New Zealand
400 Level
- EDUC 438 Education for the Indigenous People of the Pacific
- HIST 429 History of Migration
- LAWS 432 Special Topic: Comparative Indigenous Law
- PASI 401 Theory and Methods in Pacific Studies
- PASI 428 Internship
- PASI 489 Comparative Research Project
- POLS 414 Special Topic: Politics, State and Society in the Pacific Islands
500 Level
- DEVE 511 Development Theory
- DEVE 513 Development Policy
- EDUC 525 Education for the Indigenous People of the Pacific
- EPSY 514 Educational Psychology Assessment
- GOVT 518 Comparative Public Management
- GOVT 519 Development Policy and Management
- HLWB 501 Health Policy and Planning
- ITRA 501 Multidisciplinary Approaches to International Trade
- LAWS 504 International Trade Law
- LAWS 532 Special Topic: Comparative Indigenous Law
- MMPE 506 International and Trade Economies
- MSSL 505 Partnerships and Networks
- MSSL 507 Culturally Responsive Leadership
- PASI 591 Thesis
- STRA 534 Special Topic: New Zealand Foreign and Security Policy