Subjects
Subjects for standard full year foundation studies programmes
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Introduction to Accounting
- Accounting: What is it?
- Users of accounting information
- Definitions for assets, liabilities and equity (NZ framework)
- Accounting Concepts: accounting entity, monetary measurement, historical cost, going concern, period reporting, accrual basis
- GST (in New Zealand)
- Recording transactions on the expanded accounting equation
- Preparing a trial balance
- Fully classified financial statements (income statement and balance sheet for a sole proprietor)
- Double Entry Accounting:
- Recording transactions in the general ledger
- Recording cash transactions for a sole proprietor in cash journals and the general ledger
- Bank reconciliations
- Balance day adjustments: period ending adjustments (accrued expenses, accrued income, prepayments and income received in advance, depreciation)
- Analysis and interpretation of financial performance (sole proprietor only)
- Analysis and interpretation of financial position (sole proprietor only)
- Management decision-making
- Cost-Volume-Profit analysis
- Cash budgeting
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Calculus
- Algebra of complex numbers
- Differentiate functions and apply differentiation methods
- Integral calculus to solve differential equation problems
- Manipulate and apply trigonometric methods
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Design and Society
- Design 1750 to present
- Four industrial revolutions
- Industry, globalisation, communication technology, artificial intelligence
- Future technologies and materials
- Advertising, retail, design jobs
- Drawing skills for Design
- Looking at New Zealand and international designers : their lives and work
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Environmental Science
- Ecosystems
- Ecology
- Conservation and biodiversity
- Evolution and biogeography
- Water (aquatic and fest) ecosystems
- Pollution management
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Macroeconomics
- Measuring economic activity
- Calculating GDP
- Business cycles
- Aggregating demand
- Aggregating supply
- Economic growth
- Inflation
- Unemployment
- Government and central bank macroeconomic policies
- Economic integration, globalisation, free trade, protectionism
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Microeconomics
- Theory of demand
- Law of demand
- Movements along and shifts of the demand curve
- Elasticities of demand
- Theory of supply
- Law of supply
- Production, producers, resources
- Law of diminishing marginal returns
- Costs and cost curves
- Movements along and shifts of the supply curve
- Elasticity of supply
- Market equilibrium and allocative efficiency, changes in the market
- Government intervention in the market for private goods
- Theory of the firm and profit maximisation in different market structures and different time periods
- Market failure, mixed goods, merit, demerit and public goods, inequitable income distribution and government interventions to correct for these market failures
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Media Studies
- Social media
- TV, streaming, video and film
- Advertising
- Criticism and review
- Production methods
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Physics
- Mechanical and wave systems
- Electromagnetism
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Statistics
- Calculating confidence intervals
- Simple linear regression
- Probability and probability distribution
- Elements of statistical inference
- Calculating margin of error
- Discrete random samples
- Sampling distributions
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Tourism
- Tourism and the tourist
- The history of tourism (local and global)
- Tourism and culture
- Tourism sectors
- Employment in tourism
- Managing people and money
- Event tourism
- Theme parks
- Tourism: accommodation, transport and infrastructure
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Marketing
- The contemporary marketing environment
- Market research
- Marketing segmenting, targeting and positioning
- The four P’s of the marketing mix
- The extended marketing mix – Services
- Branding
- Business to business marketing
- International marketing
- Marketing evaluation
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New Zealand Culture and Society
- Pre 1840: Maori and European
- Treaty of Waitangi
- Immigration, gold and war
- Kingitanga and Maori renaissance
- Women’s Suffrage and the vote
- Politics and system of government
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English
- Engage in academic discussions and debates
- 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
- Listen to university-style lectures
- Undertake independent research
- Literature Study
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Introductory Mathematics
- Algebra
- Decimals and percentages
- Manipulate ratios and proportions
- Manipulate decimals and percentages
- Scientific notation
- Manipulate algebraic expressions
- Solve equations and in equations
- Word problems to mathematical theory
- Measurement
- Plane shapes
- 3‐dimensional shapes
- Area, perimeter and volume of plane and 3D shapes
- Compute conversions of mass, capacity and time units
- Trigonometry
- Pythagoras’ Theorem
- Trigonometric ratios to find sides of a right‐angled triangle
- Trigonometric ratios to find angles of a right‐angled triangle
- Sine Rule to find angles and sides of triangles
- Cosine Rule to find angles and sides of triangles
- Area of a triangle
- Basic trigonometric graphs
- Statistics
- Sampling
- Frequency
- Statistics from a set of data
- Graphs to represent a set of data
- Calculations from a statistical graph
- Probability
- Probability terms and concepts
- Venn diagrams and tree diagrams
- Mutually exclusive and independent events
- Algebra
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Health Studies
- Human populations
- Human biology and human body response to healthy initiatives
- Health policies
- Using data and statistics
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Management Studies
- Short term, medium and long term planning
- Managing people
- Dealing with the media, complex events and issues
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Quantitative Methods
- Structured research instruments and research questions
- Data in the form of numbers and statistics
- Predicting future results or investigating causal relationships.
- Questionnaires or computer software to collect numerical data