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Courses (77)

Showing 77 courses for the subject History

Shaping the World: Cultural Forces in Europe and Latin America

LANG101

This course introduces students to themes central to the study of the cultures of the French, German, Italian and Spanish-speaking worlds. Cultural case studies will allow students to draw out commonalities without losing sight of historical, politic...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2024

Mon,Wed

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 1

Years available

2023, 2024

Great Ideas

FHSS103

Great Ideas is a course reflecting on some of the most exciting, important and revolutionary ideas that have shaped society and culture as it is today. It also considers how those ideas have an ongoing influence. It’s an interdisciplinary course look...

Total points

20.0

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 1,Trimester 3

Years available

2023, 2024

Special Topic: Historical Wrongs and Human Rights

FHSS104

Atrocity, violence, persecution, warfare and injustice form part of the record of human history. So do attempts to redress such wrongs. The course examines historical case studies of oppression of many sorts based on race, gender, ethnicity, religion...

Total points

20.0

Years available

Special Topic: Historical Wrongs and Human Rights in Global History

HIST106

Violence and injustice have marred human history. Overcoming historical wrongs is an ongoing dynamic throughout all societies. From global case studies, you will learn about changing historical ideas of rights, freedom and sovereignty from the fight ...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2024

Mon,Wed

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 3

Years available

2024

Colonial Encounters: Pacific Experiences

HIST111

This course introduces students to the discipline of history through the study of colonial encounters in the greater Pacific region, drawing on experiences of indigenous peoples in Australia, the Pacific Islands, and New Zealand. Ranging from pre-con...

Total points

20.0

Years available

Aotearoa NZ in World History: Islands and People

HIST112

New Zealand's peoples occupy one of the most remote parts of the world. As an island people, their history has been one of constant connection and innovation. Surveying the dynamic movements that made Aotearoa New Zealand a destination for peoples fr...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2024

Mon,Wed

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 1

Years available

2023, 2024

The World Re-Made, 1919-1939

HIST113

The extraordinary events of 1936 are our starting point for this course: a Black athlete defied Hitler, the battle between communism and fascism boiled over in the Spanish Civil War, a blockbuster novel romanticizing slavery was published. You will d...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2024

Tue,Thu

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 1

Years available

2023, 2024

Revolutions, Empires and Peoples: The Americas, 1600-1865

HIST117

Pirates, spies, scoundrels, revolutionaries, witches and assassins! Welcome to the history of revolutions, empires and peoples in North, Central and South America. You will travel from the 1600s through to the US Civil War exploring important histori...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2024

Mon,Wed

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 2

Years available

2023, 2024

The Birth of Modern Europe

HIST118

How do Europe’s historical upheavals and contradictions inform our contemporary notions of modernity? Students will investigate the histories of the continent, and the local and global implications of Europe’s path towards modernity. Demographic chan...

Total points

20.0

Years available

World War One and its Legacies

HIST121

World War One broke apart empires and families and fostered political, social and technological revolution. Using empire, nation, community, family and individual as frames, this global history of World War One examines the complex facets of the conf...

Total points

20.0

Years available

Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 1000-1650

HIST201

Assassin's Creed or Game of Thrones? What was life really like in a medieval city? What were the consequences of the Black Death? You will discover the political, economic, cultural and social lives of medieval and early modern Europeans, from peasan...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2024

Mon

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 2

Years available

2023, 2024

Radicals and Revolutionaries in Britain

HIST202

A study of popular revolt, social protest and political sedition in Britain from the sixteenth century to the mid-nineteenth century.

Total points

20.0

Years available

Special Topic: Great Discoveries in Classical Archaeology

FHSS203

This course surveys the history and development of the archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean world, examining its brilliant discoveries and sensational blunders through a series of case studies.

Total points

20.0

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 3

Years available

2023, 2024

Te Ao Māori and History: Whakapapa, Waiata, Claims & Treaty Settlements

HIST203

In the Māori world, time and place are configured in ways born of deep connection to these temperate islands of Kiwa's Great Ocean. The dynamic, living framework of whakapapa orders the universe relationally and waiata holds the history of the people...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2024

Mon,Wed

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 1

Years available

2023, 2024

Roman Social History

CLAS207

A study of the main features of Roman social history from the time of Augustus to AD 200. Topics include class structure, law, education, the family, slavery, poverty and public entertainment. Offered in alternate years.

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2023

Mon,Wed,Fri

Trimesters taught
2023

Trimester 2

Years available

2023

The Future of Work

FHSS207

Workforces are changing at a rapid pace with various predictions regarding the future nature of work. In this interdisciplinary course, students will critically examine the changing nature of the work and employment from a range of perspectives inclu...

Total points

20.0

Years available

Greek Society

CLAS208

A study of the main features of Greek society with special emphasis on Athens of the Classical period. Topics include the life cycle, population, class structure, economy, democracy, slavery, warfare and festivals.

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2024

Mon,Wed,Fri

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 2

Years available

2024

Mobilising the Masses: Propaganda in Europe in the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1945

HIST208

This course explores political propaganda in inter-war European society, focusing predominantly on Britain, Germany, France, the Soviet Union, Italy and Spain. It investigates techniques of persuasion in democratic and totalitarian states, examining ...

Total points

20.0

Years available

Revolutionary Nation: Creating the USA

HIST215

This course examines the early history of the USA as it expanded across the North American continent, became an industrial power, emancipated slaves, and dispossessed native peoples. It looks at the effects of the United States' origins in an age of ...

Total points

20.0

Years available

Crime, Justice and Human Rights in U.S. History, 1865-1975

HIST216

The American century from 1865-1975 was one of criminalisation and liberation, punishment and protest, the expansion and contraction of human rights. You will examine American involvement in international jurisprudence about genocide, anti-communist ...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2024

Mon,Wed

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 1

Years available

2024

USA and Global Power, 1890 to Present

HIST217

This course examines the history of the US as it expanded from a continental to an international power. It analyses crucial episodes in the century including the New Deal, World War II, the Cold War, Vietnam, the Gulf War, and the US's role in the po...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2023

Mon,Thu

Trimesters taught
2023

Trimester 2

Years available

2023

Pacific Histories: Environments, Peoples and Empires

HIST219

In the largest ocean on the planet, Pacific Island peoples navigate a world of waves and currents, volcanoes, islands and atolls. Explore the history of the peoples of the Pacific Islands from their initial settlement of Oceania to the present day. Y...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2024

Mon,Wed

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 2

Years available

2024

Australian History

HIST222

Australia and New Zealand are often described as neighbours, cousins and mates. But are we? Australia is a large and diverse country with a complex history. Students will examine aspects of Australia's past since the late 1700's focusing on themes of...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2023

Tue,Fri

Trimesters taught
2023

Trimester 2

Years available

2023

Māori and Pākehā in the Nineteenth-Century World

HIST227

This course examines the histories of Māori and Pākehā cultural interactions during the nineteenth century. It explores relationships between identity, power and place, in both international and local forums.

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2024

Tue

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 2

Years available

2024

Special Topic: The Holocaust- Te Patunga Nui o ngā Hūrae mā

HIST228

This course investigates the Holocaust through the history of antisemitism, Nazi ideology, ghettos and extermination camps, dehumanisation, collaboration and resistance. You will gain in-depth knowledge of this unprecedented genocide, and acquire the...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2024

Thu,Fri

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 1

Years available

2024

Gandhi, India and the World

HIST230

A study of Gandhi and his India and his influence on democratic movements in other parts of the British Empire, South Africa and the USA.

Total points

20.0

Years available

The Worlds of Christopher Columbus

HIST232

What does the life of Christopher Columbus tell us about medieval and early modern world history, 1000–1650? Explore the histories of Renaissance Italy, navigation, the Crusades, the Inquisition, and Empires in the Americas through Columbus’s life as...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2024

Mon,Wed

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 3

Years available

2023, 2024

Special Topic: History and Film

HIST234

This course explores the relationship between History and the ‘moving image’. Drawing from case studies from four different continents, the course will engage with the theory and practice of cinema's dual role as mirror and catalyst of social trends,...

Total points

20.0

Years available

Special Topic: Telling NZ-Pacific Lives

HIST235

We examine the history of New Zealand’s relations with the Pacific islands from the 1890s to the 1990s through the life histories of Pacific peoples in Aotearoa and NZers in the Pacific (e.g., travellers, traders, “chiefs”, missionaries, students, pe...

Total points

20.0

Years available

Race and Racism in Modern European History

HIST236

This course examines the concept of race, the origins of racial thinking and the practice of racial intolerance and persecution in Europe and its colonies from 1750 to 1950. Emphasis will be given to the meanings of race through its codes: class, col...

Total points

20.0

Years available

From Facism to Forza Italia: A Cultural History of Italy, 1922-2000

HIST238

HIST 238 examines, along chronological lines, the history of Italy from the rise of Fascism until the end of the "First Republic" and the rise of media mogul Silvio Berlusconi's "Forza Italia party", dedicating particular attention to the history of ...

Total points

20.0

Years available

Peoples of the Soviet Empire

HIST245

This course introduces the nations of the Soviet Empire, discussing both federal regions within the USSR itself and dependent states beyond the Soviet frontier. Lectures contrast the evolution of Communist rule at the Russian core of the empire with ...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2023

Mon,Wed

Trimesters taught
2023

Trimester 1

Years available

2023

History of the German-Speaking Peoples

HIST248

This course on the German-Speaking world starts at the end of the Thirty Years' War in 1648 and concludes at the present day, and it takes the interplay between German linguistic nationalism and other political loyalties as its main theme.

This course is offered in person only.

Total points

20.0

Years available

New Zealand Political History

HIST249

What are the forces that have shaped our political world? Who are the winners and losers, the dreamers and schemers? In this course, you will explore the key themes in New Zealand political history: the changing shape and nature of the New Zealand st...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2024

Tue,Thu

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 1

Years available

2023, 2024

The Terrible Wonder of Modernity: The World Re-made, c.1880s-1930s

HIST250

Tracking across New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, North America and parts of Europe, the course examines what it means to 'be modern'. Why did people in many different parts of the world come to see themselves as 'modern' and thereby distin...

Total points

20.0

Years available

Arabs, Persians, Turks: The Modern Middle East

HIST256

This course introduces the twentieth-century history of the Middle East with a focus on Arab, Persian, and Turkish national experiences. Lectures explore ideas of political legitimacy: the course examines the collapse of the Ottoman caliphate, Europe...

Total points

20.0

Years available

Early Modern Science: Possessing Nature's Secrets

HIST301

Students in this course will research and examine the various intellectual and empirical traditions that shaped how people gathered knowledge about nature and the cosmos in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, a period that saw the birth of moder...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2023

Thu

Trimesters taught
2023

Trimester 2

Years available

2023

Contesting Colonialism: The British Empire and the Settler Colonies

HIST302

A comparative study of settler colonialism and the evolution of self-government in Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Total points

20.0

Years available

Special Topic: Great Discoveries in Classical Archaeology

FHSS303

This course surveys the history and development of the archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean world, examining its brilliant discoveries and sensational blunders through a series of case studies.

Total points

20.0

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 3

Years available

2023, 2024

Roman Social History

CLAS307

A study of the main features of Roman social history from the time of Augustus to AD 200. Topics include class structure, law, education, the family, slavery, poverty and public entertainment. Co-taught with CLAS 207. Offered in alternate years.

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2023

Mon,Wed,Fri

Trimesters taught
2023

Trimester 2

Years available

2023

Greek Social History

CLAS308

A study of the main features of Greek society with special emphasis on Athens of the Classical period. Topics include the life cycle, population, class structure, economy, democracy, slavery, warfare and festivals. Co-taught with CLAS 208: reading su...

Total points

20.0

Years available

Special Topic: The Worlds of Christopher Columbus

HIST310

What does the life of Christopher Columbus tell us about medieval and early modern world history, 1000–1650? Explore the histories of Renaissance Italy, navigation, the Crusades, the Inquisition, and Empires in the Americas through Columbus’s life as...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2024

Mon,Wed

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 3

Years available

2023, 2024

Working Lives in New Zealand

HIST312

This course explores how the meaning of work has changed over time in Aotearoa/New Zealand. It interrogates the interplay of race, class, gender and sexuality in the worlds of work.

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2023

Mon

Trimesters taught
2023

Trimester 2

Years available

2023

Media and the Modern USA

HIST315

This course examines the US from 1975 to the present, exploring the interaction between media and major events including the conservative counteroffensive, the undermining of Detente, the Reagan and Bush I eras, the end of the Cold War, the Clinton s...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2023

Thu

Trimesters taught
2023

Trimester 1

Years available

2023

New Zealand Social History

HIST316

Explores the changing visions and patterns of social life in Aotearoa/New Zealand from the early 19th to late 20th century, drawing on new approaches in cultural and social history. Central themes include the interaction of people with the land, radi...

Total points

20.0

Years available

New Zealand History

HIST317

In 2020 this course will consider migration to to New Zealand from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales over the period 1800 to 1945 in the context of British and Irish migration more generally, and New Zealand’s place in the world in the Age of Mass...

Total points

20.0

Years available

Special Topic: Arabs, Persians, Turks: The Modern Middle East

HIST318

This course introduces the twentieth-century history of the Middle East with a focus on Arab, Persian and Turkish national experiences. Lectures explore ideas of political legitimacy: the course examines the collapse of the Ottoman caliphate, Europea...

Total points

20.0

Years available

The Cold War World, 1945-1991

HIST321

The 'Cold War' carved up countries, built walls, fostered diplomatic paranoia and brought the world to the brink of nuclear annihilation. As an 'imaginary war' - one waged as much as a war of the mind as a military campaign - the Cold War had far-rea...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2024

Mon,Wed

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 2

Years available

2024

Māori Textual Cultures in the 19th Century World: Ngā Tuhinga a Ngā Tūpuna

HIST323

Māori is often described as an oral culture. How then do we explain the massive amount of texts produced by Māori in the 19th century – one of the largest collections of Indigenous written material in the world? This course offers you the opportunity...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2024

Mon

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 2

Years available

2024

Special Topic: Nationalist Peacemakers, 1917 - 1924

HIST327

This course examines national conflicts at the end of the First World War, exploring how the ideal of "national self-determination" affected the post-war world. Lectures explore various border disputes. Seminars discuss primary sources: memoirs, prop...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2023

Wed

Trimesters taught
2023

Trimester 2

Years available

2023

Special Topic: Telling NZ-Pacific Lives

HIST329

We examine the history of New Zealand’s relations with the Pacific islands from the 1890s to the 1990s through the life histories of Pacific peoples in Aotearoa and NZers in the Pacific (e.g., travellers, traders, “chiefs”, missionaries, students, pe...

Total points

20.0

Years available

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

HIST331

The history of the transatlantic slave trade, 1519-1867, and its impact on Europe, Africa and the Americas. Seminars discuss slavery in the early modern world, the commercial organisation of the slave trade, shipboard disease and mortality, the devel...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2023

Tue

Trimesters taught
2023

Trimester 1

Years available

2023

The Holocaust - Te Patunga Nui o ngā Hūrae mā

HIST332

This course investigates the Holocaust through the history of antisemitism, Nazi ideology, ghettos and extermination camps, dehumanisation, collaboration and resistance. You You will gain in-depth knowledge of this unprecedented genocide, and acquire...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2024

Thu,Fri

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 1

Years available

2024

World War One: Social and Cultural Perspectives on 1914 - 1918

HIST334

World War One was more than a military event. It was a catastrophic conflict that affected millions of people and accelerated cultural and technological change. You will investigate a range of social and cultural effects of the War, focusing particul...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2024

Thu

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 2

Years available

2024

The Pacific Islands after 1945

HIST336

The political and social history of the Pacific Islands since 1945 has been tumultuous, with decolonisation, democratisation, urbanisation, governance and ethnic conflict playing out in various countries. We will examine developments between WWII and...

Total points

20.0

Days taught
2024

Wed

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 1

Years available

2023, 2024

Prelude to Peace: Displaced Persons and Refugees in Post-War Europe

HIST338

This course explores the aftermath of World War II, namely the problem of displaced persons, refugees and expellees on the quest for peace and governance of Europe. It will include attention to humanitarian organisations, international law, the geogr...

Total points

20.0

Years available

History on Film/Film on History

HIST339

This course explores the relationship between History and the Moving Image. Drawing from case studies from four different continents, the course will engage with the theory and practice of cinema's dual role as mirror and catalyst of social trends, a...

Total points

20.0

Years available

A Topic in Pacific History: New Zealand(ers) in the “Sea of Islands”

HIST403

This course explores the involvement of Aotearoa/New Zealand and New Zealanders in the Pacific islands since 1840. It focuses not only on New Zealand’s formal colonial empire and its legacy in Sāmoa, Cook Islands, Niue, Tokelau and Nauru but also its...

Total points

30.0

Years available

A Topic in the History of the United States: From Cold War to Culture Wars, 1965-2021

HIST404

The course explores the way the Cold War shaped US society and culture from 1965 to 1991 and the causes and consequences of the Culture Wars that followed from 1991 to 2021. It examines the growing polarisation- political, social, cultural, ideologic...

Total points

30.0

Days taught
2024

Mon

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 1 + 2

Years available

2023, 2024

A Topic in European History 1: Histories of the Senses

HIST407

This course will introduce students to historical problems and approaches in studying the five senses: vision, touch, taste, smell and hearing. The chief aims of the course are to consider the role of the senses in history and to interrogate historia...

This course is offered in person only.

Total points

30.0

Years available

A Topic in the History of Sport: Studies in the History of Sport and Spectatorship

HIST412

Total points

30.0

Years available

A Topic in Historiography and Historical Method 1: History and Theory

HIST419

This is a historiographical and theoretical course. This means that we will examine both the philosophical bases for understanding the past and the ways in which history has been (and currently is) practised.

This course is offered in person only.

Total points

30.0

Days taught
2023

Thu

Trimesters taught
2023

Trimester 1 + 2

Years available

2023

A Topic in the History of Race Relations in New Zealand: Contexts of the Treaty

HIST420

Total points

30.0

Years available

A Topic in European History 2: The European Outreach into the Atlantic

HIST421

This course considers the European outreach into the Atlantic in early modern history, 1400-1800. We examine the development of major Atlantic trades, including the Newfoundland fishing industry, whaling, the slave trade, and trades in cash-crops and...

Total points

30.0

Years available

A Topic in New Zealand History 1: Oral History Method and Practice

HIST422

We explore how the recovery and reconstruction of memory can be both the source and subject of oral history, and the methods to make that happen. Students will both analyse and create oral histories in this course.

Total points

30.0

Days taught
2024

Wed

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 1 + 2

Years available

2024

A Topic in Historiography and Historical Method 2: Digital History

HIST423

This course will examine the digital tools and methods increasingly used by historians in producing historical scholarship, via discussion of recent scholarship on digital history and hands-on workshops of various digital skills and resources. Studen...

This course is offered in person only.

Total points

30.0

Years available

A Topic in European History 3: Scotland- Colony, Nation, Empire

HIST425

Was there such a thing as a Scotttish Empire or a distinctively Scottish experience of empire? This course takes a self-consciously Scotocentric approach to British imperial and colonial history. It considers Scottish thinking on empire, Scottish exp...

Total points

30.0

Years available

A Topic in New Zealand History 2: Empire and Desire: Gender and Imperialism, c.1780-1920

HIST427

Spanning the period from roughly the end of the 18th Century and American independence through to the imperial conferences of the 1920s, this course explores the inter-related histories of gender and empire, largely as they unfolded in what become kn...

Total points

30.0

Days taught
2023

Tue

Trimesters taught
2023

Trimester 1 + 2

Years available

2023

Special Topic: Class in History

HIST428

This course will examine the importance of social class as an analytical category and a historical reality. Attention will be paid to classical and more recent theoretical debates, and to the concrete meaning of class in a variety of historical situa...

Total points

30.0

Years available

History of Migration

HIST429

History of Migration considers the history of forced and free migration. Topics may include: Māori migration to Aotearoa; recent Māori migration to Australia; the transatlantic slave trade; convict labour; indentured labour in the Atlantic, Indian Oc...

Total points

30.0

Years available

Māori Literature in History

HIST430

Drawing on an extensive archival and published pool of Māori writing c. 1820 to the current day, this course examines the written landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand's first peoples. Critical and theoretical work on indigenous literatures drawn from va...

This course is offered in person only.

Total points

30.0

Years available

Class in History

HIST431

This course will examine the importance of social class as an analytical category and a historical reality. Attention will be paid to classical and more recent theoretical debates, and to the concrete meaning of class in a variety of historical situa...

This course is offered in person only.

Total points

30.0

Days taught
2024

Thu

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 1 + 2

Years available

2024

National Awakening in Eastern Europe

HIST448

This course introduces students to the phenomenon 'national awakening' by examining the political, social, intellectual, and cultural origins of East European nationalism in light of nationalism theory. Students may choose to focus on either Czech or...

Total points

30.0

Years available

Origins of Nationalism

HIST449

The emergence of nationalism has transformed human societies all over the world, but scholars disagree about what nationalism is and how to interpret it. This course examines the origins of nationalism in detail by reading canonical works by leading ...

Total points

30.0

Years available

Research Project

HIST489

HIST 489 is a compulsory research essay undertaken in the completion of a BA (Hons) degree. The topic is devised principally by the student under the guidance of a History programme staff member.

Total points

30.0

Days taught
2024

Fri

Trimesters taught
2024

Trimester 1 + 2

Years available

2023, 2024

Thesis

HIST591

MA thesis in History.

Total points

120.0

Trimesters taught
2024

Full Year

Years available

2023, 2024

History for PhD

HIST690

Total points

120.0

Trimesters taught
2024

Full Year

Years available

2023, 2024

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