奥塔哥大学

The Bachelor of Arts (BA) is Otago's most flexible undergraduate degree programme, enabling students to study from a selection of more than 40 arts and social science subjects, as well as papers offered elsewhere in the University. Academic breadth is complemented by in-depth knowledge gained through majoring in one or two subjects with the option of minors in one or two others.

Students are taught by research-active scholars, are expected to undertake a diverse range of learning tasks and are challenged to develop their intellectual independence. Graduates of the programme are well-informed, versatile, independent thinkers with the information literacy, communication, research and interpersonal skills necessary for a career or further academic study. The completed BA is an entry qualification for the PGDipArts in the major subject of the degree.

Pacific Islands Studies

Pacific Islands Studies is taught across several departments. Papers are chosen for their coverage of topics such as Pacific prehistory, Pacific people's issues, Pacific history, Pacific religion and church history, Pacific art history, intercultural film and media studies, as well as Maori culture and history.

Programme Requirements

100-level

PACI 101 Pacific Societies. One of: ANTH 103 Introduction to Anthropology; ANTH 105 Global and Local Cultures; HIST 107 New Zealand in the World from the 18th Century; MAOR 102 Maori Society; MFCO 102 Understanding Contemporary Media; PACI 102 Pacific Dance: An Introduction; PACI 103 Languages and Cultures of the Pacific: An Introduction.

200-level

PACI 201 Contemporary Pacific Island Issues or PACI 210 Special Topic: Pacific Bodies: Pacific Worlds; ARCH 204 Pacific Archaeology. One of: ANTH 205 Anthropology and the Contemporary Pacific; GEOG 278 Geographies of the South Pacific; HIST 208 Pacific Islands to c. 1900; MAOR 207 Nga Karero Nehe - Tribal Histories; MFCO 212 Media and Intercultural Communication; MUSI 268 Performance in Asia and the Pacific or approved Special Topic papers relevant to the Pacific Islands in ANTH, ARTV, CHTH, GEOG, HIST, MAOR

300-level

PACI 301 Gafa o Tagata Pasifika - Pacific Diaspora in New Zealand or PACI 310 Special Topic: Sino Pasifika - Pacific Bodies

Three of:
ANTH 316 Labour and Society
GEOG 378 Geographies of the South Pacific
HIST 337 Environmental History of the Pacific
INDV 307 Ancient East Polynesian Histories
MAOR 307 Te Tatakitanga o Nga Ao e Rua
MUSI 328 Music in Pacific Cultures (Advanced)
POLS 320 Pacific Geopolitics in the 21st Century
SOWK 304 Kaupapa Maori, and Indigenous Approaches to Social Work

or approved Special Topic papers relevant to the Pacific Islands in ANTH, ARTV, CHTH, GEOG, HIST, MAOR

198 further points; must include 54 further points at 200-level or above.

Up to 90 points may be taken from outside Arts