NCEA Level 1 Pacific Studies

In the Pacific Studies course, students will investigate the different issues that affect our Pacific nations. The course has three specific units of learning which are Pacific Indigenous Knowledge, Pacific Change and Development and Pacific Societies. The Pacific Studies Course is open for all students to learn about the history, culture, language, protocols and traditions of the Pacific. 

Pacific Studies may also be able to draw on and support learning in Pacific dance and Pacific languages offered for our students via various teaching and learning approaches.

Content/skills:

• Pacific perspectives, values and decision making

• History, language, culture, protocols and traditions of the Pacific

• Current and past challenges that Pacific Islanders have faced and how they have overcome them. 

• Pacific island cultures include but are not limited to – Samoan, Tongan, Cook Islands, Tokelauan, Niuean, Fijian, Tuvaluan