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Course code
Qualifications are made up of courses. Some universities call these papers. Each course is numbered using 6 digits.
- 175309
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Level
The fourth number of the course code shows the level of the course. For example, in course 219206, the fourth number is a 2, so it is a 200-level course (usually studied in the second year of full-time study).
- 300-level
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Credits
Each course is worth a number of credits. You combine courses (credits) to meet the total number of credits needed for your qualification.
- 15
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Subject
- Psychology
Course planning information
Course notes
All assessments are compulsory
Prerequisite courses
You need to complete the above course or courses before moving onto this one.
General progression requirements
You must complete at least 45 credits from 200-level before enrolling in 300-level courses.Learning outcomes
What you will learn. Knowledge, skills and attitudes you’ll be able to show as a result of successfully finishing this course.
- 1 Demonstrate critical awareness of a variety of perspectives and methodologies used in the field of forensic research in Aotearoa New Zealand.
- 2 Critically examine violence and justice and the issues and controversies (including culture and gender) in research on violence, crime and social justice.
- 3 Examine how representations of the dangerous other that permeate our modern media repetitively produce and re-produce 'risk' that must be managed and contained.
- 4 Use critical theory to interrogate how the discipline of psychology is an active participant in developing and maintaining structural and cultural practices that inscribe meaning on the body of the 'other'.
Learning outcomes can change before the start of the semester you are studying the course in.
Textbooks needed
There are no set texts for this course.