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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English and Linguistics [127]
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Religion [25]
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School of Geography [325]
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Theology [174]
Collections in Division of Humanities Departments
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Classics [38]
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College of Education [139]
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History [249]
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Law Collection [493]
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Philosophy [51]
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Politics [82]
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Visual Culture [2]
Recent Deposits
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New Business Models for Legal Services
This working paper outlines possible innovations to legal services, drawing on examples of new models developing both here and abroad. -
One Flake at a Time: a study of adze production at Wairau Bar through debitage analysis
This thesis explores the adze industry of the early period of Māori history. The research focuses on the production of adzes at the site of Wairau Bar which dates to the earliest phase of New Zealand settlement. It aims ... -
Film Families and Friends: Creative Networks in a Precarious Industry
Films have been made in Aotearoa for more than a hundred years but the early 1970s saw significant growth in independent filmmaking. This thesis investigates the period of New Zealand film’s evolution from informal cottage ... -
Climatology of Vapour Transport associated with New Zealand Droughts
Drought is a natural hazard which has a wide range of impacts across multiple sectors. While a universal or exact definition of drought is problematic, it is relatively straightforward to classify drought according to the ... -
Early Lapita Settlement in the Colonisation Process: The nature of an Early Lapita ceramic assemblage from Tamuarawai, Emirau Island, Papua New Guinea
Pottery has long been the artefact of choice for establishing migrations in the West Pacific, as demonstrated by the discovery in the 1940s that dentate-stamped pottery of the Lapita Cultural Complex had a distribution ... -
The Archaeology of Porcellanite in New Zealand
Porcellanite is a lithic material that was used by early Māori to manufacture flake tools in Murihiku. This thesis examines how porcellanite was procured during the early colonisation of Murihiku. How lithic sources were ... -
Dunedin Energy Study 2018-19
The Dunedin Energy Study is a joint annual research project between the Dunedin City Council (DCC) and the Centre for Sustainability at the University of Otago. This study takes stock of, and analyses energy inputs into ... -
Peace Education in Afghanistan: A Comparative Study of Conflict and Post-Conflict School Textbooks
Afghanistan has experienced numerous educational curricula supporting its different governments’ policies regarding the establishment of formal education. Afghanistan’s school textbooks were published in support of alternate ... -
Bioplanning: Practices of governing and resistance. A Foucaultian analytic of planning and resistance to planning practices in the occupied Palestinian West Bank following the peace process
Over the last twenty-five years of the Oslo era, Israel continued its interventionist colonialism that led to nearly irreversible political, economic, and cultural transformations within Palestinian society in the West ... -
Prehistoric settlement and networks of interaction in the Western Solomon Islands: A survey of Manning Strait
This thesis is an investigation into the prehistory of the western Solomon Islands and an examination of archaeological sites located in and around a deep-sea passage between Choiseul and Santa Isabel known as Manning ... -
Storm Surge and Beach Response in Southern New Zealand with Climate Change Considerations
There is $22 billion (NZD) of coastal infrastructure in New Zealand, situated within 1.5 m elevation of spring high tide. In southern New Zealand alone, there are 4,000 homes, 13,000 people and 174 km of roading infrastructure ... -
Qoheleth and the Cross: Back and Forth with Jürgen Moltmann and Peter Enns
The book of Ecclesiastes has often endured an existence at the margins of Christian faith. Interestingly, a theologian known precisely for his interest in retrieving the marginal, Jürgen Moltmann, has all but overlooked ... -
Life sentences: Articulating recoveries in fiction and nonfiction narrative prose
This hybrid critical-creative thesis explores representations of mobility and immobility in complex narrative literary prose, to assess how these representations contribute to the development of critical thought concerning ... -
Approaching a ritual design strategy: Thinking ritually to support an organisational collaboration strategy
This thesis traces the design of a method – a ritual design method – for thinking through the design of activities and things. My research goal was to evolve and apply a design method informed by ritual scholarship and ... -
Women and Islam in Malaysia: Narrative and myth in the qualitative analysis of two controversial online news stories between 2014 and 2018
This study investigates the mythic aspects of news to highlight the role of myth in news narratives of selected Malaysian online news portals through examining the structure and content of individual reports and comparing ... -
Leisure activities and well-being in residential care: Voices of older Adults in New Zealand.
This doctoral thesis contributes to gerontology research by investigating the leisure experiences of older adults living in residential care in New Zealand. There is a need to understand how frail residents experience their ... -
Ko te waka reo Māori, he waka eke noa: The motivations, attitudes, and learning experiences of non-Māori secondary school students learning te reo Māori
Te reo Māori is the indigenous language of Aotearoa New Zealand and was recognised as an official language in 1987. It is a vital part of Māori culture and a defining feature of New Zealand’s education system. Although ... -
Water Quality of Stormwater Runoff into Lake Wānaka, New Zealand
The potential contaminant load from stormwater runoff into Lake Wānaka is an emerging problem for the management of urban waters in the Queenstown Lakes District of New Zealand. This research combined a field-research ...