LEVEL 3 HEALTH EDUCATION – L3HEA

Learning Area: Health & Physical Education

Qualification: NCEA Level 3

This course focuses on the big factors that influence trends and patterns in wellbeing and health across our communities and Aotearoa as a whole. Ākonga will learn to evaluate with Te Tiriti o Waitangi as the foundation, listening in and learning from a variety of attitudes, values, beliefs, knowledge systems, worldviews and practices to do with wellbeing and health, further strengthening the critical thinking practiced in the Level 2 course. 

There are 19 credits on offer for 2025, 14 internal and 5 external. All credits count towards University Entrance Reading. Only the external counts towards University Entrance Writing. 

Course Components:

• Te Tiriti o Waitangi, colonisation and wellbeing

• Ethical issues associated with attitudes, values, health and wellbeing

• Rongoā Māori and other health practices for treating and managing health conditions

• Strategising equitable improvements in health issues (Aotearoa and international)

External Credits:                                   5

Internal Credits:                                  14

Literacy:                                                   19