Faculty of Arts


Tuākana undergraduate


Tuākana is a mentoring service for Stage I Māori and Pacific students.

The programme


The Tuākana Arts undergraduate programme provides academic and pastoral support to first year Māori and Pacific students in a culturally familiar environment.

Tuākana provide workshops, monitor the due dates of coursework and work with students who may struggle to meet course deadlines. The workshops are organised and run by Tuākana mentors (experienced students) who provide pastoral and academic support to students.

For more information

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Sereana Patterson
Undergraduate Equity Co-ordinator

Phone: + 64 9 373 7599 ext 84219
Email: s.patterson@auckland.ac.nz

Meet the mentors

Our mentors are high-achieving Arts students who share their pathways to success to help you on the road to yours. The mentors also run workshops around assignment and exam time, and you can contact them to find out when they have office hours.

You can find Tuākana Arts mentors throughout the faculty, in almost every department. You can contact them by email to make an appointment to discuss your coursework, learning or to find out what workshops you can attend to supplement your lectures and tutorials.

Tuākana Arts mentors know where and how to get the help you need.

Department  Email Contacts
Anthropology tuakana.anthro@auckland.ac.nz Futa Helu 'Ofamo'oni and James Crooks
English Writing and ESOL tuakana.dalsl@auckland.ac.nz Jo-Anne Kent-Johnston (English Writing), Todd Barrowclough (ESOL), Alex Tuxford (ENGWRIT/ESOL) and Luke Butters (Linguistics)
Asian Studies tuakana.asianstudies@auckland.ac.nz Luke Butters
Art History tuakana.arthistory@auckland.ac.nz Adelaide Dunn
Classics and Ancient History tuakana.classics@auckland.ac.nz Cade Tariau and Marcia Leenen
English tuakana.english@auckland.ac.nz Alex Tuxford and Michelle Johansson
Film, Television and Media Studies tuakana.ftvms@auckland.ac.nz Jay Tausi
French tuakana.french@auckland.ac.nz Mike Bennett
German tuakana.german@auckland.ac.nz Kirstie Macdiarmid
History tuakana.history@auckland.ac.nz Aleisha Skelton and Angela Vaai
Italian tuakana.italian@auckland.ac.nz Adam Thompson
Linguistics tuakana.linguistics@auckland.ac.nz Luke Butters
Māori Studies tuakana.maori@auckland.ac.nz Valentino Wichman and Sam Stone
Pacific Studies tuakana.pacific@auckland.ac.nz Siale Mone and Janet Ikimotu
Philosophy tuakana.phil@auckland.ac.nz Jessica Reid and Talia Sellars
Political Studies tuakana.politics@auckland.ac.nz David Green and Aroha Fletcher
Spanish tuakana.spanish@auckland.ac.nz Joshua Tahana
Sociology tuakana.sociol@auckland.ac.nz Adam Cragie, Darrel Turner and Heather Johnson

 



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