Core courses

Choose one of:

• DIGD507 Mahitahi | Collaborative Practices
• SCIE504 Science and Society

And choose one natural sciences course

• ASTR500 Introductory Astronomy
• BIOL500 Foundations of Life
• BMED500 Introduction to Biomedical Science
• CHEM500 Chemistry in Our World
• CHEM501 Principles of Chemistry #
• CHEM502 Biological and Solution Chemistry
• CONS500 Biodiversity
• EASC500 Our Dynamic Earth
• ENVS502 Environmental Science Skills
• ENVS503 Our Total Environment
• FOOD502 Food Science
• FOOD503 Food Technology
• GESC500 Mapping Our Environment
• HEAL505 Human Anatomy and Physiology
• HEAL507 Health and Environment
• MAOH501 Hauora Māori and Environment
• MASC500 Introduction to Marine Science
• MASC501 Marine Science Techniques
• MELS501 Histology and Cytology^
• MICR501 Microbial Life
• PHYS501 Physics for Scientists and Engineers
• SOSC585 Climate Action

And one mathematical and computer sciences course

• COMP500 Programming Concepts and Techniques*
• COMP503 Object Oriented Programming*
• MATH502 Algebra and Discrete Mathematics
• MATH504 Introductory Mathematics for Science
• MATH505 Algebra and Calculus I
• STAT500 Applied Statistics
• STAT502 Introductory Probability and Statistics

_{^Not offered in 2025
*Only available to students in the Analytics and Mathematical Modelling and Computation majors
#Please note that this course is designed for students with chemistry knowledge from high school. If you're unsure about your level of knowledge, you can take an optional pre-test here.}

And one course from either the natural sciences or mathematical and computer science courses above.

Complete the following course:

• SCIE606 Vision Mātauranga: Science Practice in Aotearoa

And one of:

• CHEM604 Instrumental Analysis
• SCIE600 Scientific Inquiry

In Year 3, you complete a project in an area related to your major. This project gives you an important competitive edge for your career, and is good preparation for postgraduate study.

Courses you complete for this project:

• SCIE707 Science Capstone Project A
• SCIE708 Science Capstone Project B