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PSYCH 725

: Evolution and Human Behaviour
2024 Semester One (1243)
Investigates the psychology of humans from an evolutionary perspective. Specific topics may include the evolution of language, religion, mental time travel, social learning, and cognitive nudges, biases and heuristics.
Subject: Psychology
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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PSYCH 727

: Functional MRI
2024 Semester One (1243)
A comprehensive overview of functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) with a focus on its use in the cognitive neuroscience of memory and aging. Designed for beginners, topics include experimental design, image acquisition and pre-processing, analysis methods, localisation/anatomy and interpretation. Classes will include a lecture and/or a seminar followed by a hands-on laboratory working with fMRI data to consolidate learning.
Subject: Psychology
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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PSYCH 730

: Professional Psychology Practice in New Zealand
2024 Semester One (1243)
Aims to equip students with knowledge and skills required for registration as a psychologist with the New Zealand Psychologists Board. Topics include the structure and functions of the Psychologists Board/Health and Disability Commissioner, cultural competency (obligations under the Treaty of Waitangi and cultural safe practice), professional ethics (Code of Ethics for Psychologists Working in Aotearoa/New Zealand) and related legislation.
Subject: Psychology
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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PSYCH 741A

: ABA: Communicating Behaviourally
2024 Semester One (1243)
Provides the opportunity to gain practical experience with a range of mediums for communicating behavioural concepts.
Subject: Psychology
To complete this course students must enrol in PSYCH 741 A and B, or PSYCH 741
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PSYCH 742

: Neuroscience of Awareness
2024 Semester One (1243)
An advanced seminar on the neuroscience of awareness and related topics. The course will primarily consist of student-led discussion of original research, with particular emphasis on areas of active controversy or debate. In addition to the theoretical discussion of human awareness, there will be a strong focus on the methods and practice of research in human neuroscience.
Subject: Psychology
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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PSYCH 744

: Experimental Design and Quantitative Methods for Psychology
2024 Semester One (1243)
Covers applications of the general linear model to research design and analysis. Topics include: univariate techniques (analysis of variance, analysis of covariance, regression) and multivariate techniques (multivariate analysis of variance, discriminant analysis, multivariate regression, and factor analysis).
Subject: Psychology
Prerequisite: PSYCH 306
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PSYCH 750A

: ABA: Methods and Measurement
2024 Semester One (1243)
A study of the underlying concepts and principles involved with modifying an individual human or animal's behaviour in some applied setting. Appropriate and effective applications of scientific principles of learning will be taught, as will pertinent topics researched in the Experimental Analysis of Behaviour. Topics will include the application of research into associative learning, reinforcement, punishment, extinction, avoidance, stimulus control and choice.
Subject: Psychology
To complete this course students must enrol in PSYCH 750 A and B
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PSYCH 751A

: ABA: Concepts and Principles
2024 Semester One (1243)
A study of the techniques and issues involved with modifying an individual human or animal's behaviour in some applied setting. Appropriate and effective applications of scientific principles of learning will be taught, as will pertinent topics researched in the Experimental Analysis of Behaviour. Topics will include the application of research into associative learning, reinforcement, punishment, extinction, avoidance, stimulus control and choice.
Subject: Psychology
To complete this course students must enrol in PSYCH 751 A and B
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PSYCH 754

: Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities
2024 Semester One (1243)
Study of the behavioural aspects, aetiologies and therapeutic interventions for disorders usually diagnosed during childhood that are associated with reduced abilities to learn. Examples include intellectual disabilities (mental retardation) and pervasive developmental disorders (e.g., autism).
Subject: Psychology
Restriction: PSYCH 752
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PSYCH 757A

: Advanced Applied Behaviour Analysis
2024 Semester One (1243)
Advanced education and training in applied behaviour analysis (ABA) in preparation for a professional career. Topics include ethical, professional, and practical issues confronting behaviour analysts in employment; recent research in ABA and other sciences with respect to clinical, educational, and other populations with whom behaviour analysts typically work.
Subject: Psychology
Prerequisite: PSYCH 750, 751 Corequisite: PSYCH 651
Restriction: PSYCH 753 To complete this course students must enrol in PSYCH 757 A and B, or PSYCH 757
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PSYCH 758

: Ethnicity, Identity and Culture
2024 Semester One (1243)
Students will draw upon Indigenous and cultural psychological frameworks to examine how psychological research is conducted with ethnic communities, and will examine the influences of culture, values and beliefs across selected topics (e.g. resiliency, language and masculinity).
Subject: Psychology
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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PSYCH 759

: Advanced Behavioural Psychology
2024 Semester One (1243)
Examination of selected topics in contemporary behavioural psychology. The specific topics covered depend partly on student interest, exploring research on the relation between behaviour and environment, considering both animal and human behaviour, and both lab-based research and translation of that research into understanding behaviour of significance to society.
Subject: Psychology
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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PSYCH 761

: Organisational Psychology
2024 Semester One (1243)
Focuses on attitudes and behaviours at work that reflect or impact on the relationship between employee and employer, with a particular emphasis on topics that are proposed to impact on employee well-being and productivity (e.g., job satisfaction, motivation, leadership). Students will be encouraged to adopt a scientist-practitioner perspective, through class discussions and assignments.
Subject: Psychology
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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PSYCH 767

: Gender Violence
2024 Semester One (1243)
What does it mean to say that violence is gendered? How does a gender analysis shape our understanding of the nature of problems like sexual violence, domestic violence, street harassment and online abuse? And how does it guide our responses to the harm of violence and our strategies for prevention? This course will bring a critical feminist lens to understanding key questions, theories and debates in research on gender violence.
Subject: Psychology
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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PSYCH 770

: Behavioural Insights
2024 Semester One (1243)
Explores how cognitive biases and errors cause us to behave in irrational ways and how nudging and debiasing can mitigate these effects. Introduces students to methods to run behavioural insight analyses in real-world settings.
Subject: Psychology
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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PSYCH 772A

: Clinical Practice 2
2024 Semester One (1243)
Advanced psychological assessment and therapy for diverse clinical populations, including adult, and child and family. Cognitive behaviour therapy, narrative therapy, psychodynamic therapy, and the trauma model are emphasised. Includes two, 200 hour placements, in either an adult setting or a child and family setting. Evaluation is by internal assessment, including assessment by field supervisors.
Subject: Psychology
To complete this course students must enrol in PSYCH 772 A and B
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REGDEV 701

: Regional Futures
2024 Semester One (1243)
Examines the changing nature of the region as a spatial category of social and political economy. The course draws on place-based understandings of regional development to address how regions are being reassembled and what that means for the futures of people and place. Particular reference, in the New Zealand context, is made to the interconnections between regional and iwi developments.
Subject: Regional Development
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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REGDEV 702

: Regional Regeneration and Wellbeing
2024 Semester One (1243)
Examines how education provides a basis for rethinking regional development, community wellbeing and sustainability in an increasingly globalised world. The course explores the significance to community regeneration of indigenous and local knowledge, via mātauranga Māori, place-based learning, public pedagogy and the promotion of educational pathways, as well as how these traverse and intersect the local and the global.
Subject: Regional Development
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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SAMOAN 101

: Samoan Language 1
2024 Semester One (1243)
Gives students an introduction to the structure of Samoan as well as allowing them to develop basic language skills in listening, speaking, reading and writing. Designed for students with little or no knowledge of the language, and for those with some fluency wishing to understand simple sentence structure and composition.
Subject: Samoan
Restriction: May not be taken if a more advanced language acquisition course in this subject has previously been passed
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SAMOAN 301

: Samoan Language 3
2024 Semester One (1243)
Conversations and speeches will be studied and practised. The contexts and relationships between ordinary and respectful language levels or honorifics of fa'asamoa protocols will be examined.
Subject: Samoan
Prerequisite: SAMOAN 201
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SCIENT 701

: Accounting and Finance for Scientists
2024 Semester One (1243)
Builds upon scientific numeracy in exploring the sources, uses and reporting of accounting and financial information in science-based enterprises; application of capital budgeting and valuation theory to science-relevant situations; and key bases for financially-informed project and enterprise decision-making and the management of economic resources.
Subject: Science Enterprise
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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SCIENT 702

: Marketing for Scientific and Technical Personnel
2024 Semester One (1243)
Examines the intermediaries and end-users of technical and research-related applications, products and services; their 'customers', 'value chain', 'marketing', and related concepts in both highly-regulated and open markets; and how effective science-related marketing strategies and promotional efforts are developed and communicated.
Subject: Science Enterprise
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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SCIGEN 101

: Communicating in a Knowledge Society
2024 Semester One (1243)
Effective communication is required for specialists in all fields to engage meaningfully with society. In this course students gain an understanding of the important role communication plays in a knowledge society. Through case studies and practical experience students learn about the responsibilities and skills required to communicate with a variety of audiences. They learn how to effectively manage and present data and practice oral, written, visual and electronic communication.
Subject: Science General
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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SCIGEN 201

: Innovating in a Knowledge Society
2024 Semester One (1243)
Interdisciplinary examination of science innovation at policy, organisational and project levels including context, impacts and roles of business and research organisations, and ways innovations are presented and received. Case study analysis of the business environment including how innovation is both enabled and constrained in science-based organisations and society, and innovation strategies in science–based organisations.
Subject: Science General
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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SCIGEN 399

: Capstone: Science
2024 Semester One (1243)
A multidisciplinary capstone for students coming from any science discipline. Students apply their cumulative knowledge and skills to a scientific phenomenon from a list of topics, considering the science in the context of sociocultural, ethical, or environmental challenges. Emphasises team as well as self-directed work to support mastery of academic competencies and key transferable skills.
Subject: Science General
Prerequisite: 45 points passed at Stage III and Associate Dean (Academic) or nominee approval
Restriction: Any other BSc capstone