Health Sciences First Year (HSFY) students can enrol in an optional eighth paper in second semester, selected from the approved list below.
The aim of the eighth paper option is to foster critical thinking and analysis, by giving students the opportunity to explore areas outside of the seven HSFY papers.
If you choose to enrol in an eighth paper, the results in your best seven papers will be counted for the purposes of admission to the professional programmes, provided that you have passed the compulsory seven papers to the required standard. The required minimum eligibility threshold for each programme is outlined in the Guidelines for Admission.
Guidelines for Admission to Health Sciences professional programmes
After you have received your semester 1 results you will be able to add your eighth optional paper on the Programmes and Papers page in eVision. For more information about adding a paper (including deadlines), visit:
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Approved optional eighth papers for 2023
- ANTH 106 Human Origins and Civilisations*
- BIBS 112 Interpreting the Old Testament*
- BIOL 112 Animal Biology
- BIOL 123 Plants: How They Shape the World
- BSNS 111 Business and Society
- CHEM 111 Chemistry: Molecular Architecture
- CHTH 131 God and Ethics in the Modern World*
- CLAS 105 Greek Mythology*
- COMO 101 Modelling and Computation
- EDUC 101 Education and Society*
- ENGL 131 Controversial Classics*
- GEOG 102 Geographies of Sustainable Futures*
- GEOL 112 Dynamic Earth
- HIST 123 Revolutions*
- HUNT 141 Understanding Human Nutrition
- MANT 101 Managing for Performance
- MAOR 102 Māori Society*
- MAOR 110 Introduction to Conversational Māori*
- MARI 112 Global Marine Systems
- MART 112 Marketing Management
- MATH 120 Mathematics for Scientists
- MATH 130 Fundamentals of Modern Mathematics 1
- PACI 101 Pacific Societies*
- PHSI 132 Fundamentals of Physics II
- POLS 102 New Zealand Politics – Introduction*
- PSYC 112 Human Thought and Behaviour*
- RELS 101 Judaism, Christianity and Islam*
- RELS 110 Introduction to the Scientific Study of Religion*
- SCOM 109 Communicating Science
- SOCI 102 Cultural and Social Identities*
- SOCI 103 Crime, Deviance and Social Transformation*
- SPEX 102 Principles of Exercise for Health and Performance
- STAT 115 Introduction to Biostatistics*
- TOUR 101 Introduction to Tourism
- TOUR 102 Global Tourism