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This course covers the use of computer mapping, graphics, and databases to inventory, analyse, and report spatial (location) data, including the development of spatial information systems. Students will learn about spatial data characteristics and the creation and use of spatial database for a wide range of applications, including mapping, environmental analysis, and site selection. The course is interdisciplinary in nature, but of particular relevance to geography, land management, geomatics, computing science, marine science, earth science, environmental studies, population studies and other related disciplines. The course uses lectures and hands-on lab exercises with an emphasis on the acquisition of practical skills.

This course covers the use of computer mapping, graphics, and databases to inventory, analyse, and report spatial (location) data, including the development of spatial information systems. Students will learn about spatial data characteristics and the creation and use of spatial database for a wide range of applications, including mapping, environmental analysis, and site selection. The course is interdisciplinary in nature, but of particular relevance to geography, land management, geomatics, computing science, marine science, earth science, environmental studies, population studies and other related disciplines. The course uses lectures and hands-on lab exercises with an emphasis on the acquisition of practical skills.

This course concentrates on advanced concepts of GIS, such as project design and implementation, data entry, integration of remotely sensed data, database design and use, data quality and standards, raster and vector modelling, spatial analysis techniques, and special applications. Also examined are issues of using GIS in national development, setting up and maintaining GIS, and the future of geographic information technologies, particularly in the Pacific. Included are advanced approaches for integration and analysis of various types of spatial data, web-based GIS, and an introduction to alternative GIS software programmes. The primary format is hands-on learning, but this is supported by lectures from regional experts, videos, and special readings.

This course will be seminar-based and involve examination of archival sources. 

The course this year explores the history of religious conversion in the South Pacific since European contact and also in comparative perspective. 

Key questions include: How have people described their own conversion and the conversion of others in written and oral texts -- and how have these descriptions changed over time? What do archival accounts of conversions reveal about the nature and practice of conversion itself? And what role has sharing and circulating conversion stories played in the past?

The course readings and assignments will emphasise Christian conversions in colonial contexts in the South Pacific. However, we will also examine comparative, methodological, and theoretical readings on conversion in other times and cultural contexts.

The history of conversion raises a number of themes fundamental to the practice of history, such as the nature of historical change, the relationship between the individual and society, the possibilities and limits of historical methods and archival sources, and deciding what "context" matters when writing histories. This course also provides an introduction to the history of religion as well as a critical perspective on the impact of Christianity in the South Pacific and its relation to colonialism. 

HYP01 introduces students to Pacific history as well as global history. One of the main
objectives of this course is to focus on an event that involved nations both in the Pacific and
around the world: the Second World War. The course is designed to provide students with
an understanding of how the war spread into the Pacific, the involvement of Pacific Islanders
and the effects of the war on the people and the islands. The course is also designed to teach students skills necessary for studying history.

Database management systems are the foundation of the business operations of the organisation. Database management systems must effectively store, access and manipulate data as well as provide data security, data sharing and data integrity. As the database technology advances rapidly, information professionals must not only understand the concepts and principles of database systems but also the associated management issues.

Database management systems are the foundation of the business operations of the organisation. Database management systems must effectively store, access and manipulate data as well as provide data security, data sharing and data integrity. As the database technology advances rapidly, information professionals must not only understand the concepts and principles of database systems but also the associated management issues.

Database management systems are the foundation of the business operations of the organisation. Database management systems must effectively store, access and manipulate data as well as provide data security, data sharing and data integrity. As the database technology advances rapidly, information professionals must not only understand the concepts and principles of database systems but also the associated management issues.