Level 2 Pacific Studies

Course Description

This course is intended to encourage and enable students to engage with and affirm traditional cultures and values. Students will investigate and draw conclusions of an aspect of Pacific and indigenous knowledge, society, change, and development. Students will also communicate understanding of a variety of Pacific cultures through planned presentations. 

Non-Pacific students are also welcome to take this course. This course will also build on much of the learning taught in Pasifika Studies Level.1. 

Students who are interested in learning any Pasifika language will have an opportunity to do NCEA Level 2 within this course. However, the student must show a level of proficiency in that language before they can be considered for these units.  Students will also learn to communicate information, ideas, and opinions by responding to varied texts and varied sources of information. They will also manage self, relate to others, participate and contribute in communities by analysing ways Pasifika cultures are organised for different purposes and audiences. 

Areas of investigation into the Pacific Islands include:  art & design, traditional values, beliefs, cultivation, chief hierarchy systems, myths & legends, cultivation, traditional foods and dancing, voyaging, migration, performing arts, myths & legends, historical events, along with the analysis of Pasifika content in social media circles. 

Assessment   

• 17166 v5 (5 Credits) Draw a conclusion after an investigation into an aspect of Pacific change and development with guidance. 

• 17169 v5 (5 Credits) Draw a conclusion after an investigation into an aspect of Pacific Society with Guidance. 

• 91232 v1 (5 Credits) History 2.4 Interpret different perspectives of people in an historical context which is of significance to New Zealanders. 

Current language units: 

Samoan 

• 91144 v3 (5 Credits) Samoan 2.3 Interact using spoken Samoan to share information and justify ideas and opinions in different situations. 

• 91145 v2 (4 Credits) Samoan 2.2 Give a spoken presentation in Samoan that communicates information, ideas and opinions.

• 91147 v2 (5 Credits) Samoan 2.5 Write a variety of text types in Samoan to convey information, ideas and opinions in genuine contexts. 

Tongan 

• 91675 v1 (4 Credits) Lea Faka Tonga 2.2 - Give a spoken presentation in Lea Faka-Tonga that communicates information, ideas and opinions. 

• 91676 v2 (5 Credits) Lea Faka Tonga 2.3 Interact using spoken Lea Faka-Tonga to share information and justify opinions in different situations. 

• 91678 v1 (5 Credits) Lea Faka Tonga 2.5 Write a variety of text types in Lea Faka Tonga to convey information, ideas, and opinions in genuine context.  

Recommendation for subject entry 

Completion of Pasifika Studies Level 1. Fluency in any Pasifika Language. NCEA L1. A student who is already studying History and Geography.  

Next steps:

This course leads to Level 3 Pacific Studies option course.