Rā Tūhura | Discovery Day Timetable & Map 2025
Topic
Timetable & Map
17 April 2025
HOW TO APPLY
Central Lecture Theatre
| Room: C1 | Room: C2 | Room: C3 | |
| 9.30am - 10.20am | PSYCHOLOGY: What if nutrition could treat mental illness? | BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: A party is not for eveyone... (but event jobs could be?) | CHEMISTRY: Exciting Electrons! Energy and entertainment |
| 10.30am - 10.50am | MECHANICAL ENGINEERING: Motion in action: discovering the world | BUSINESS & ECONOMICS: Exploring the unexpected: economics and decision making | PHILOSOPHY: Killer robots and killer hackers |
| 10.50am - 11.10am | WELLBEING ACTIVITY & FOOD BREAK | ||
| 11.10am - 11.30am | ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE: Fast Fashion to Fast Trash: the Environmental Impact of Clothing Waste | BUSINESS & ACCOUNTING: Counting everything: spilling the beans and dispelling a myth | LINGUISTICS: Language myth-tery |
| 11.40am - 12.00pm | CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Your future in justuce: learn, lead, change | ENTREPRENEURSHIP: Become an entrepreneur: choosing the right business structure | ASTRONOMY: How astronomy can help save the planet |
| 12.00pm - 1.00pm | EXPLORE CAMPUS ACTIVITY & LUNCH FOOD TRUCKS IN CENTRAL CAMPUS | ||
| 1.00pm - 1.20pm | LAW: Why law matters | MARKETING: Are you killing it on social media or is social media killing you? | YOUTH & COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP: Young leaders will navigate our waka to new horizons |
| 1.30pm - 1.50pm | BIOLOGY: A day in the life of an impact biologist | BUSINESS & FINANCE: Be your own bank: saving, investing & growing | TEACHING: Inspire young minds through play: the art an science behind teaching |
Rātā
| E7 | E8 | E9 | |
| 9.30am - 10.20am | UC MĀORI | CIVIL ENGINEERING: How can civil engineers help Aotearoa achieve its 2050 net-zero goal? | COMMUNICATIONS: The truth about fake news |
| 10.30am - 10.50am | CHINESE/ JAPANESE: Amazing Asia - China, Japan and their languages | CHEMICAL FORMULATION DESIGN: The f-word: how to scientifically mix stuff! | MEDICAL PHYSICS: The power of radiation: how energy heals |
| 10.50am - 11.10am | WELLBEING ACTIVITY & FRUIT BREAK | ||
| 11.10am - 11.30am | SUSTAINABILITY: How you can lead change | INDUSTRIAL PRODUCT DESIGN: Would it stop a bullet? - A closer look at modern day body armour | DATA SCIENCE: Forecasting our Future |
| 11.40am - 12.00pm | FORESTRY: The secret lives of trees | ENGLISH: It's alive, it's alive | Global Climate Change - electrifying hope |
| 12.00pm - 1.00pm | EXPLORE CAMPUS ACTIVITY & LUNCH FOOD TRUCKS IN CENTRAL CAMPUS | ||
| 1.00pm - 1.20pm | BIOLOGY: Nature's ninja's bacteriophages in action | GEOGRAPHY: Drive less, change more: transport, climate & cities | HISTORY: Government in the age of Trump |
| 1.30pm - 1.50pm | SPEECH LANGUAGE THERAPY: The importance of human communication | HUMAN SERVICES: Inequality and child poverty in New Zealand | ART HISTORY: Fakes and forgeries in art history |
North Arts
| A1 | A2 | A3 | |
| 9.30am - 10.20am | UNI101 | DIGITAL PRODUCT DESIGN: Design for a hostile environment | Uni101 |
| 10.30am - 10.50am | HEALTH: Time for a health check! | EUROPEAN UNION STUDIES: EU explained and why you should care | GEOLOGY: Explore and preserve our changing planet: volcanoes, earthquakes and more |
| 10.50am - 11.10am | WELLBEING ACTIVITY & FRUIT BREAK | ||
| 11.10am - 10.30am | CHEMICAL ENGINEERING: How will chemical engineers save the world | COMPUTER SCIENCE & SOFTWARE ENGINEERING: The Golem revolution: living in the age of AI | UC Pacific |
| 11.40am - 12.00pm | SOCIOLOGY: Why sociology? | ||
| 12.00pm - 1.00pm | EXPLORE CAMPUS ACTIVITY & LUNCH FOOD TRUCKS IN CENTRAL CAMPUS | ||
| 1.00pm - 1.20pm | MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS: Why so serious? Media and mental health | SOCIAL WORK: Exploring social work | DIGITAL SCREEN: Storytelling for the digital screen |
| 12.30pm - 1.50pm | POLITICAL SCIENCE: How can we change the world? | CLASSICS: From text messages to hieroglyphs: classical studies in the 21st century | MĀORI AND INDIGENOUS STUDIES: Ngāti Naīanei: Māori in the 21st century |
Puaka James Hight
| Undercroft 101 | |
| 9.30am - 10.20am | INFORMATION SYSTEMS: What if technology wasn't just about coding - but about solving the world's biggest problems |
| 10.30am - 10.50am | MANAGEMENT: Ask more. Discover more. Be more |
| 10.50am - 11.10am | WELLBEING ACTIVITY & FRUIT BREAK |
| 11.10am - 12.00pm | Fine arts tour |
| 12.00pm - 1.00pm | EXPLORE CAMPUS ACTIVITY & LUNCH FOOD TRUCKS IN CENTRAL CAMPUS |
| 1.00pm - 1.50pm | UCE Centre for Entrepreneurship experience. |
