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Division of Humanities Departments
Apart from being able to specialise in traditional core disciplines (such as History, Philosophy and Music), Humanities students may also choose among a variety of new interdisciplinary programmes such as Asian Studies, Film and Media Studies, and Performing Arts), as well as programmes that lead to professional qualifications in Law and Teaching. Students taking Humanities at Otago are encouraged to combine their liberal studies with papers and programmes that have a professional or vocational orientation, especially by doing a double degree for example, BA/BCom, BA/LLB, or BA/BTchg(Prim).
Sub-communities within Division of Humanities Departments
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Department of English [116]
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Department of Geography [272]
Collections in Division of Humanities Departments
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Classics [33]
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College of Education [117]
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History and Art History [234]
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Law Collection [477]
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Philosophy [44]
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Politics [71]
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Visual Culture [2]
Recent Deposits
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A High-Resolution Chronology of Human Arrival and Environmental Impact in Northland, New Zealand
Our understanding of when Polynesian colonists first arrived in New Zealand, how the landscape was altered, and the pace of anthropogenic modification has been primarily sourced from archaeological evidence and environmental ... -
From glass plate to album: New Hebrides mission photographs in the album of Reverend William Veitch Milne
Mission photography and missionary photographers have been neglected in histories of the medium in New Zealand, as have photograph albums. The wealth of mission photographs held at the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New ... -
The Photograph Albums of the New Zealand Presbyterian Mission to the New Hebrides
While it has been acknowledged that photographs are valuable sources for the historian, photograph albums have yet to receive the same level of critical attention. This thesis traces the social biographies of seven photograph ... -
Oughts, Thoughts, and Companions in Guilt: A Defense of Moral Realism
According to the moral error theory, there are no moral facts: all (positive, atomic) moral judgements are systematically and uniformly false. A popular strategy in recent years for arguing against the moral error theory ... -
Prescriptive and Holistic Contextualism: Emerging Variants of Modern Contract Interpretation
Debate over the proper approach to modern contract interpretation continues even in this era of modern contract interpretation where context is always considered. This paper identifies and contrasts two rival approaches ... -
Can Your Trust Be Trusted?
This paper is the transcript of the author’s Inaugural Professorial Lecture, delivered at the University of Otago on 23 October 2008. The author discusses and dispels myths and misconceptions about trusts and identifies ... -
The Legal Status of Life Before Birth
This paper discusses the changing legal status of various life forms before birth. The author begins by distinguishing between a living organism within a woman’s body (from conception to birth stored embryos and gametes) ... -
Trust Issues for Separating Elderly Spouses of Partners
This paper addresses how the Property (Relationships) Act 1976 (PRA) may affect elderly people, particularly where the parties have assets from a prior relationship. The author considers what happens to their property if ... -
Privacy and Access to Information
This paper provides an overview of New Zealand law concerning privacy and access to information research. The authors discuss the issues researchers most commonly confront, particularly matters of privacy when personal ... -
Protecting Children's Interests in Relationship Property Proceedings
The aim of this paper is to alert readers to the range of property interests that children may have in assets owned by the parties to a relationship and how they might be better protected. The author discusses the extent ... -
Social sustainability indicators as performance
We are living in an era of the audit. Sustainability indicators are used to ensure that industries are behaving responsibly. The audits are well elaborated in their environmental requirements, but they are often less ... -
The Universal Precautionary Principle: New Pillars and Pathways for Environmental, Sociocultural, and Economic Resilience
Global environmental degradation is linked to a worldwide erosion of ethnic identity and cultural diversity, as well as market disruption. Cultures rely heavily on the local environment around them, and local communities ... -
Energy-saving behaviour as a demand-side management strategy in the developing world: the case of Bangladesh
Although demand-side management (DSM) needs to be more customer centred, either with or without smart technologies (e.g. smart grid), less attention has been paid to the developing world in relation to DSM strategy ... -
Identifying residential daily electricity-use profiles through time-segmented regression analysis
In many countries the residential sector contributes significantly to peak demand. Some of the promising approaches to reduce these peaks, such as energy efficiency and demand-side management (DSM) programmes, currently ... -
An Investigation into how the Built Environment can Increase Happiness
The world is increasingly urban and managing urban areas has become one of the most important challenges of the twenty-first century (United Nations, 2014). For urban dwellers, cities do design their lives; the city can ... -
Parental control and the child's right not to be hit
This thesis is an examination of the Crimes (Substituted Section 59) Amendment Act 2007 with respect to children's rights, specifically the right not to be hit. New Zealand's journey towards the abolishment of physical ... -
Calibration and verification of the Lower Taieri Plains groundwater model
Groundwater hydrologists often use computer-based numerical models to predict the behaviour of groundwater systems due to their complexity. The overall goal of the present study was to further refine the previously developed ... -
Implications of Rural Change and the Use of Rural Tourism to Drive Economic Development: A Case Study Investigation into Westland District, New Zealand
Rural areas play a critical role in the national economy. They often form the backbone of the export economy and house significant proportions of the national population. However, recent decades have seen rural areas across ... -
Compulsory Caesarian Section
This article discusses the English Court of Appeal case R v Collins, which set aside a High Court order that authorized a compulsory caesarian section on a pregnant woman against her express wishes. The author analyses the ...