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Undergraduate programmes and papers online – 2023

Business programmes

Online learning

Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) programme intake:

  • S1: semester 1 – February
  • S2: semester 2 – July
  • S2*: semester 2 – July may be available, although conditions or limitations may apply

Business programmes for offshore students

  • Accounting – S1,S2
  • Economics – S1,S2
  • Finance – S1,S2
  • Human Resources Management** – S1,S2
  • Information Science – S1,S2*
  • International Business** – S1,S2
  • Management  – S1,S2
  • Marketing – S1,S2
  • Tourism – S1,S2

** Please note that while this major can be started online, currently not all paper requirements of this major are available online. Interested students are encouraged to contact our Student Development team for advice before applying: student.development@otago.ac.nz

Explore the Bachelor of Commerce papers available online

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Humanities programmes

Distance learning

Humanities programme intake:

  • S1: semester 1 – February
  • S2: semester 2 – July
  • S2*: semester 2 – July may be available, although conditions or limitations may apply

Humanities programmes for offshore students

Additional distance learning programmes may be available, but may have an on-campus component.

See the Distance Learning website

Explore the Humanities papers available online

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Business papers

How to apply for:

Semester availability:

  • S1: semester 1 – February
  • S2: semester 2 – July

Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) core papers

  • BSNS 111 Business and Society (S1, S2)
  • BSNS 112 Interpreting Business Data (S1, S2)
  • BSNS 113 Economic Principles and Policy (S1, S2)
  • BSNS 114 Financial Decision Making (S1, S2)
  • BSNS 115 Accounting and Information Systems (S1, S2)

Accounting

  • ACCT 102 Principles of Accounting (S1, S2)
  • ACCT 211 Financial Accounting and Reporting (S1)
  • ACCT 222 Cost and Management Accounting (S1, S2)
  • ACCT 233 Fundamentals of Accounting for Financial Decisions (S1)
  • ACCT 302 Accounting Performance Management (S1)
  • ACCT 307 Management Accounting (S2)
  • ACCT 315 Advanced Financial Accounting (S1)

Economics

Finance

  • FINC 102 Business Mathematics (S1, S2)
  • FINC 202 Investment Analysis and Portfolio Management (S1, S2)
  • FINC 203 Financial Data Analysis (S1)
  • FINC 206 Fundamentals of Corporate Finance (S2)
  • FINC 299 Special Topic: Fundamentals of Quantitative Finance (S2)
  • FINC 303 Financial Management (S2)
  • FINC 305 International Financial Management (S1)
  • FINC 306 Derivatives (S2)

Information Science

  • COMP 101 Foundations of Information Systems (S2)
  • COMP 120 Practical Data Science (S1)
  • INFO 301 Applied Project (S2)
  • INFO 302 Information Systems Strategy and Governance (S2)
  • INFO 304 Advanced Data Science (S2)
  • INFO 310 Software Project Management (S1)

Management

  • MANT 101 Managing for Performance
  • MANT 217 International Management (S1)
  • MANT 222 Interpersonal/International Business Communication (S1)
  • MANT 250 Managing People (S1)
  • MANT 251 Managing Organisations (S2)
  • MANT 252 Developing Responsible Leadership (S2)
  • MANT 330 Leadership and Change (S2)
  • MANT 332 International Management (S2)
  • MANT 342 Global Business Strategy (S1)
  • MANT 345 Strategic Human Resource Management (S2)

Marketing

  • MART 112 Marketing (S1, S2)
  • MART 201 Integrated Marketing Communications (S2)
  • MART 210 Consumer Behaviour (S1)
  • MART 212 Understanding Markets (S1)
  • MART 301 Strategic Marketing Management (S2)
  • MART 304 Sales and Sales Management (S1)
  • MART 308 Integrated Digital Marketing (S1)
  • MART 326 International and Export Marketing (S2)

Tourism

  • TOUR 101 Introduction to Tourism (Distance and online) (S1, S2)
  • TOUR 102 Global Tourism (Distance and online) (Summer School, S2)
  • TOUR 103 Introduction to Hospitality (S1)
  • TOUR 216 Sport Tourism (S1)
  • TOUR 217 Tourist Behaviour (S2)
  • TOUR 218 Tourism and Hospitality Enterprise Management (S2)
  • TOUR 219 Destination Management (S1)
  • TOUR 301 Cultural and Heritage Tourism (S2)
  • TOUR 303 Tourist Accommodation Management (S1)
  • TOUR 304 Event and Conventions Management (S2)
  • TOUR 305 Tourism Product Development (S2)
  • TOUR 306 Ecotourism and Sustainable Development (Summer School, S1)

Important note: Bachelor of Commerce students can include some papers from outside of Business and are encouraged to consider the papers from Humanities.

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Humanities papers

The papers listed below are available online, or by distance as noted.

How to apply for:

Semester availability:

  • S1: semester 1 – February
  • S2: semester 2 – July
  • ANTH 105 Global and Local Cultures (S2)
  • ANTH 223 Anthropology of Health (S1)
  • ANTH 323 Anthropology of Health (S1)
  • ANTH 330 New Zealand Archaeology (Distance) (S2)
  • EDUC 101 Education and Society (S2)
  • EDUC 102 Human Development (S1)
  • ENGL 120 Creative Writing: How to Captivate and Persuade (S1)
  • ENGL 121 English Literature: The Remix (S1)
  • ENGL 126 English for University Purposes (S2)
  • ENGL127 Effective Writing (S1)
  • ENGL127 Effective Writing (S2)
  • ENGL131 Controversial Classics (S2)
  • ENGL218 Shakespeare: Stage, Page and Screen (S2)
  • ENGL220 Creative Writing: Reading for Writers (S1)
  • ENGL222 Contemporary American Fiction (S1)
  • ENGL223 Fantasy and the Imagination (SS)
  • ENGL227 Essay and Feature Writing (S1)
  • ENGL228 Writing for the Professions (S2)
  • ENGL241 Irish-Scots Gothic and the Gothic as Genre (S1)
  • ENGL243 Tartan Noir: Scottish Crime Fiction (S1)
  • ENGL 251 Special Topic: Creative Writing for Games and Interactive Media (Distance) (S2)
  • ENGL254 Magic and Treachery in Medieval Literature (S2)
  • ENGL312 Literature in the Age of Invention (S1)
  • ENGL313 Victorian Literature (S2)
  • ENGL320 Advanced Creative Writing (S2)
  • ENGL323 Fantasy and the Imagination (Advanced) (SS)
  • ENGL327 The Essay: Creative Non-Fiction (S2)
  • ENGL341 Irish-Scots Gothic and the Gothic as Genre (S1)
  • ENGL353 Reading Minds: Literature and Psychology (S1)
  • ENVI 312 Interdisciplinary Aspects of Climate Change (S2)
  • HUMS501 Writing and Revision for Graduate Research (S2)
  • LING111 A World of Languages (S1)
  • LING140 Language, Brain, and Being Human (S2)
  • LING217 What's Behind Language: Sound and Structure (S1)
  • LING230 Interaction and Identity in Context (S2)
  • LING231 TESOL: Guide to Language Teaching (S1)
  • LING314 Morphosyntax: Diversity and Unity (S2)
  • LING317 Child and Adult Language Development (S1)
  • LING330 Interaction and Identity in Context (S2)
  • LING331 Advanced TESOL: Branching Out (S2)
  • LING332 TESOL in Action: Teaching Practice (S2)
  • LING342 Laboratory Phonology (S1)
  • LING390 Research Essay (S1)
  • LING390 Research Essay (S2)
  • MAOR 102 Māori Society (S1, S2)
  • MFCO 224 Studying Selfies: Celebrity, Surveillance, and Cyberspace (Summer School) (Distance)
  • POLS 101 Political Philosophy - Basic Problems (S2)
  • POLS 210 Politics of the Middle East (S2)
  • POLS 307 Nature, Conflict, and the State (S1)
  • POLS 321 Public Policy in New Zealand (Distance) (Summer School)
  • POLS 375 Human Rights - From the Cradle to the Grave (S1)
  • Social Work (third and fourth years only) (Distance)
  • Theology – full list of Theology papers

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