New Zealand Literature and Culture

3 Credits

An immersion into the literature, history, and culture of New Zealand, this course will look back to the colonial founding of New Zealand as a British outpost, and to the strong Maori culture the British encountered when they arrived. Students will engage directly with matters of political and social concern, developing both awareness of cultural issues important to modern-day New Zealanders and the skills needed to navigate those issues. Along the way, we will consider how modern New Zealand has emerged from a mixing of Western and Indigenous cultures.