mah learnings
I'm looking at the extra-mural Maori Studies courses offered at Massey, which is probably my best option for what I want to do (unless I move to Palmy and just, like, go to Massey). A BA looks... pretty doable. In theory you only actually have to do one first year paper but I'll probably take He Tirohanga o Mua: Maori Custom, Lore and Economics and either Te Reo Whakahoahoa: Socialising in Maori or Te Reo Konakinaki: Developing the Language, both of which are language courses, it just depends how much knowledge you need for the latter - by then I might be justified in taking that one. There's also an Introduction to Social Policy in first semester which is a possibility if I want to minor in Social Policy. If I take the more beginner-y Te Reo paper in semester one I could take a second year paper in the second semester at the same time as He Tirohanga o Mua, probably Mana Maori: Maori and Politics. Either way that would give me 1-2 papers a semester which I could presumably do while working, especially if I limit myself to like 30 hours a week. (I'm currently doing 16 and don't want to push myself too fast, so I wouldn't want to be doing more than 30 next year probably.)
Incidentally I might be getting some down time next week. There's no open grants, we're just working through the winter assistance stuff that's still on hold, so there's only one payments shift and each shift of call centre will be for 2 people, though that may be increased if they issue a press release because people will be asking questions. New grants will be opening the week after that and shift supply will go up again as there may be some large numbers involved.
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Incidentally I might be getting some down time next week. There's no open grants, we're just working through the winter assistance stuff that's still on hold, so there's only one payments shift and each shift of call centre will be for 2 people, though that may be increased if they issue a press release because people will be asking questions. New grants will be opening the week after that and shift supply will go up again as there may be some large numbers involved.
This entry was originally posted at http://keieeeye.dreamwidth.org/188740.html. Feel free to comment there instead because LJ is a poo.