Course Overviews
Below you will find Course Overviews for all our timetabled courses.
Use the information in these to help plan your year.
| Title | Learning Area | Levels | LA Code | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philosophy | Social Sciences, speaking, writing, and presenting, nature of science, listening, reading, and viewing |
What is Philosophy about? Philosophical discussion draws on imaginative... |
4, 5 | BRES |
| Philosophy - Phil139 Ethics, Politics, Justice | None / Other |
How we should live our lives is the most important question of all. What makes our actions right or wrong? Is it our culture, our emotions, facts about the world, or God's commands? Are pleasure and happiness all that really matters? What should we do when justice and freedom conflict with happiness or with each other? Should we always obey the law? Is taxation legalised theft? This course... |
8 | BRES |
| Philosophy - Science: Good, Bad, Bogus | English, Science |
Society is awash with weird and wonderful theories, ideas and practices that controvert mainstream science: homeopathy, astrology, UFOs, ghosts, clairvoyance, faith healing, bleeding statues, telepathy, precognition, spoon bending, Big Foot, dowsing, Bible code, magnet therapy, Karma, reincarnation and Ouija boards – to name just a few. What should one believe about such phenomena? How is one... |
7, 8 | BRES |
| DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY | Technology, technological knowledge, technological practice, nature of technology |
This course aims to be flexible to meet the varied needs of students. You can work at NCEA Level 1, 2 or 3 but you will need either design or coding experience to attempt anything more than Level 1. I am keen to offer small workshops on certain things based on student interest. Options for workshops could be around: |
6, 7, 8 | DERT |
| Level 1 Mathematics | Mathematics & Statistics |
Mathematicians seek out patterns and use them to formulate new conjectures. Mathematicians resolve the truth or falsity of conjectures by mathematical proof. When mathematical structures are good models of real phenomena, then mathematical reasoning can provide insight or predictions about nature. Through the use of abstraction and logic, mathematics developed from counting, calculation,... |
6 | DERT, LOUW, INOK |