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Capstone course to be taken during the senior year after all of the other core courses have been completed. Students will propose a research study on the topic of their choice and present them in an oral presentation using PowerPoint, and an APA-style paper.
This course is an informational experience for those students majoring in psychology. It will help inform them about the requirements to earn a B.S. degree in psychology, what to anticipate and how to prepare for taking the psychology capstone course (senior seminar), and what career opportunities are possible for a graduate with a psychology major. In addition, information will be discussed regarding the variety of graduate programs and their admission requirements.
This course explores collective and personal levels of culture and its intersection. From this approach, culture is a
This course studies the growth and development of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Asian Rim from the early 1900s to the present.
This reading and critical analysis intensive course explores the encounters in Oceania in relation to the values and embodied experiences of women in Oceania. The course examines the debates about universalism and relativism, nature and culture, and personhood and identity, in understanding the differences between women, men, and transgendered persons in a Pacific context. In this course, we will centralize the scholarship, voices, and experiences of women across the region and consider how attention to women's lives challenges a number of epistemological assumptions in academia.
The course is to familiarize the students with the legal systems in Oceania. Emphasis in this class will be given to historical legal systems and their development, including political status.
This course examines cultural constructs of place, purpose, and position through the lens of tūrangawaewae. This Māori word is made up of two important ideologies (1) tūranga or place of standing, and (2) waewae, or feet. Combined, the word is often translated as "a place to stand." Tūrangawaewae are places where we feel especially empowered and connected. They are our foundation, our place in the world, our home.
This course introduces students to the social issues impacting the Pacific diaspora in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States of America. Despite the difference in location and migration, the Pacific diaspora are experiencing similar social issues. This course examines the various cultural factors that have contributed to the social issues impacting the Pacific diaspora globally.
This course is designed to introduce students to a variety of Pacific research methodologies (PRS), present core cultural concepts embedded in PRS, and demonstrate how to implement ethical practices in any research design. Intended for students who are interested in initiating their own research projects in the future, the course is structured to enable those with little or prior knowledge of Indigenous research methods to place, document, revise an original project and appropriate questions.