Example courses

• Hauora - Population and Community Approaches to Health and Wellbeing

  This course will introduce students to core concepts and determinants of hauora, health and wellbeing in populations and community. It will explore how equity, human rights and diversity affect hauora at the intersection of race, gender and class. Grounded in Aotearoa New Zealand, students will develop an understanding of how to approach hauora, health and wellbeing from a Te Tiriti o Waitangi perspective.

• Issues in Child and Adolescent Development

  This course examines child and adolescent development within an applied developmental psychology framework. Key theories and evidence on a range of issues and challenges that influence child and adolescent development is evaluated.

• Perspectives on Mental Health and Disorder/Hauora Hinengaro Wānanga Whānui

  What does it mean for a mind to be healthy or unhealthy? Are mental disorders just like physical disorders? What is it like to be mentally ill – or to be told that you are mentally ill? What do our conceptions of mental health tell us about ourselves and our societies? What can we reasonably expect of psychiatrists, therapists, and other mental health professionals? In this course you will investigate these questions through clinical psychology, the history of psychiatry, philosophical theories of the mind, and representations of mental illness in novels, poetry, visual art, and film.

• Psychology, Crime and Law

  This course covers theoretical and research approaches to crime, criminal behaviour and the legal and criminal justice system. Topics may include: psychological theories of crime; violent, sexual and property offending; juvenile delinquency; psychopathy; mentally disordered offenders; the insanity defence and competency to stand trial; alcohol, drugs and crime; eyewitness identification; detection of deception in suspects; criminal investigative analysis; and offender rehabilitation.