Some examples of government and public administration careers include:
- international relation specialist
- negotiator
- analyst
- advisor in local (city council) and national organisations – MFAT, MBIE
- Immigration New Zealand
- Department of Internal Affairs
- Ministry of Māori Development
100-level papers
- GLBL 110 Mapping our Interconnected World: An Introduction to Global Studies
- ANTH 105 Global and Local Cultures
- ASIA 101 Introducing Asia
- EURO 101 Introduction to European Studies
- BSNS 111 Business and Society
- ECON 112 Principles of Macroeconomics
- EDUC 101 Education and Society
- EDUC 102 Human Development
- EDUC 105 Disability Studies: An Introduction
- ENVI 111 Environment and Society
- GEND 101 Gender in Everyday Life
- GEOG 102 Geographies of Sustainable Futures
- HIST 102 The Global Twentieth Century
- HIST 107 New Zealand in the World from the 18th Century
- HIST 123 Revolutions
- LAWS 101 The Legal System
- LING 111 A World of Languages
- MANT 101 Managing for Performance
- MAOR 102 Māori Society
- MAOR 110 Introduction to conversational Māori
- MART 112 Marketing Management
- MFCO 103 Introduction to Communication Studies
- PACI 101 Pacific Societies
- PHIL 103 Ethical Issues
- PHIL 105 Critical Thinking
- POLS 105 Comparative Politics - Introduction
- SOCI 102 Cultural and Social Identities
- SOCI 103 Crime, Deviance and Social Transformation
200-level papers
- GLBL 201 Cultures of the Environment
- GLBL 202 A World of Stories: Global Storytelling in the Digital Age
- ECON 202 Macroeconomics
- ECON 206 The World Economy
- ECON 207 Environmental Economics
- EDUC 211 The Institutions of Childhood
- ENGL 227 Essay and Feature Writing
- GEND 201 Introduction to Feminist Theory
- GEND 206 Gender, Work and Consumer Culture
- GEND 208 Governing Bodies
- GEOG 210 Social Geography
- GEOG 215 Envisioning Sustainable Cities
- GEOG 276 Geographies of Contestation, Action and Change
- GEOG 280 Engaging with People and Place: Doing Geographical Research
- MAOR 202 Māori and Tikanga
- MANT 252 Developing Responsible Leadership
- MATS 204 Treasure or Trash: Sustainability of Materials
- POLS 210 Politics of the Middle East
- POLS 213 NZ Foreign Policy
- POLS 217 War and Politics
- POLS 218 Interventions, Peacekeeping and the Global South
- POLS 216 Politics of the European Union
- POLS 224 The Politics of Climate Change
- POLS 228 Contemporary Issues in Global Politics
- POLS 250 International Security in a Globalising World
- SOCI 211 Colonisation, Globalisation and Social Justice
- SOCI 205 Social Inequality
- TOUR 219 Destination Management
300-level papers
- GLBL 301 Cultures of the Environment (Advanced)
- GLBL 302 A World of Stories: Global Storytelling in the Digital Age (Advanced)
- GLBL 303 Applied Research Project
- ECON 303 Economics of Developing Countries
- HUMS 301 Internship Practicum
- GEOG 384 Envisioning Sustainable Cities
- INDV 301 Māori and Indigenous Development: Governance and Ethics
- MANT 330 Leadership and Change
- MANT 343 Negotiation and Dispute Resolution
- MANT 337 Organisations and Sustainability
- POLS 312 Ethics and International Relations
- POLS 315 Nationalism and Identity
- POLS 324 The Politics of Climate Change
- POLS 325 International Relations: Concepts and Theories
- POLS 326 Politics of the Arabian Peninsula
- SOCI 319 The Global Politics of Food
- SOCI 306 Public Sociology
- SOCI 310 Social Movements and Popular Protest