Subjects
In this subject, students will:
- Engage in academic discussions and improve their presentation skills
- Develop language and research skills that are necessary for writing academic essays
- Practise a range of strategies for reading and understanding complex academic texts
- Develop summary and paraphrasing skills
- Use citations and references in the APA Style
- Practise critical thinking and independent study skills that are essential for successful university studies
- Learn to take effective notes using a range of strategies and techniques
- Undertake independent research
Topics include:
- Study skills
- Exam techniques
- Academic listening and note-taking
- Listening for organisation in lectures
- Lecture comprehension and note-taking practice
- Microsoft Word Intermediate – Advanced
- Microsoft Excel Intermediate – Advanced
- PowerPoint
- Referencing (The Harvard System)
- Research project
- The case study (case analysis report)
- Oral presentations
Topics include:
- Geographical features of New Zealand
- New Zealand social customs
- Consumer issues in New Zealand
- Education
- New Zealand politics
- Treaty of Waitangi
- Major historical events
- Conservation in New Zealand
- The New Zealand legal system
- Employment in New Zealand
Topics include:
- Users of accounting information
- Forms of business ownership
- Features of a sole proprietor
- Financial reports for a sole proprietor business
- Accounting concepts
- The accounting equation
- Processing transactions for a sole proprietor including journals, ledgers and the trial balance
- Balance day adjustments
- Analysis and interpretation of financial reports for a sole proprietor
Topics include:
- Scarcity and allocation
- Consumer demand
- Producer supply
- Market equilibrium
- Market situations
Topics include:
- Circular flow of income
- Money and credit market
- Government budget and money supply
- Foreign exchange market
- Government monetary and fiscal policy
Topics include:
- Algebra functions
- Trigonometry conics
- Geometry
Topics include:
- Differential and integral calculus with applications
- Differential equations
- Complex numbers
- Graphs of combinations of functions
- Numerical solutions
- Numerical integration
Topics include:
- Sampling
- Picturing distributions
- Descriptive statistics
- Normal distributions
- Correlation and regression
- Describing relationships
- Probability
- Random variables
Topics include:
- Periodic table
- Chemical bonding
- Formulae and structure
- Chemical reactions
- Acids and bases
- Oxidation and reduction
- Solubility
- Simple nuclear transformations
- Equilibrium
- Electrochemistry
Topics include:
- Classification
- Ecosystems – factors, trophic levels & nutrient cycles
- Conservation
- Population studies
- Community dynamics
- Genetics – Mendelian problems and inheritance
- Evolution – evidence of evolution, natural selection & variation
Topics include:
- Biochemistry – water, vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, protein & lipids
- DNA & RNA – structures & replication
- Protein synthesis
- Mutation & karyotype
- Cell structures, processes & division
- Photosynthesis
- Cellular respiration
- Alternation of generations
Topics include:
- Direct current electricity
- Kirchhoff’s laws
- Capacitors in DC circuits
- Elecromagnetism
- Faraday’s and Lenz’s laws
- Alternating current electricity
- RC,RL and RCL Circuits – Resonance
Topics include:
- Linear motion
- Rotational motion
- Circular motion
- Work, power and energy
- The work-energy method
- Concurrent and Non-concurrent force systems
- Reaction at beam supports
- Shear force and bending moment diagrams
Topics include:
- Arithmetic skills
- Linear equations and inequalities
- Percentages, progressions and interest rates
- Non-linear functions and optimisation
- Constrained linear optimisation
- Time series analysis
- Probability and probability distributions
- Microsoft Excel is also introduced to solve some of the applied problems
Topics include:
- Role of government in achieving efficient & equitable outcomes for society
- Resource allocation by Planned & Market economies.
- Market failure to allocate resources efficiently or fairly. For example:
- –Monopolies
- –Merit & demerit goods
- –Mixed goods
- Income distribution & inequalities of wealth
- Economics of immigration
| English I | 50% tests/assignments |
| English II | 50% tests/assignments and 50% final exam |
| Culture and Society | 100% tests/assignments (no final exam) |
| Tertiary Study Skills | 100% tests/assignments (no final exam) |
| Academic Subjects | 30% tests/assignments and 70% final exam |
| Statistics | 50% tests/assignments and 50% final exam |
Assessments
We prepare students for assessments that will get them into AUT’s degree programmes.
Our assessments are benchmarked against international standards and are a stepping stone to achievement.
All assessments are internally assessed. The final mark for subjects is made up of a combination of tests, assignments and the final exam.
Note: AUT has no final examinations in 2021.
