New Zealand Studies/Akoranga Aotearoa - Careers

Career prospects are wide and varied and depend mainly on the subjects with which New Zealand Studies/Akoranga Aotearoa is linked. Everyone who is in the employment sector that shapes young people's self-image and sense of identity (eg; school teachers), every person who is in an employment sector which involves international interface (eg; export marketing, tourism, diplomacy), everyone who is in a service sector which requires interface with the members of that multicultural society (eg; public service, health, welfare), should have an understanding of what it is that makes New Zealand distinctive.

New Zealand Studies/Akoranga Aotearoa goes well with:

English: all English literature we read, we read as New Zealanders. What difference might being a New Zealander make to our reading of Shakespeare, Jane Austen or Salman Rushdie?

Screen and Media Studies: A combination of New Zealand Studies and Screen and Media Studies will give a strong local basis from which to consider globalised media, technologies and discourses.

History: we filter world events through our understanding of ourselves as New Zealanders. How might being a New Zealander influence our interpretation of world events?

Political Science: New Zealand Studies/Akoranga Aotearoa will give you a cultural context for New Zealand politics. How do politics impact on culture? How do our values as New Zealanders shape the policies we develop?

Geography: we look at New Zealand, and the world, through the eyes of New Zealanders. Understanding about who we are, where we stand, and how we look at things is vital to our understanding of our own environment, and the global environment.

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