FINA601-25W (C) Whole Year 2025

Fine Arts Honours Research

120 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 17 February 2025
End Date: Sunday, 9 November 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 16 March 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 24 August 2025

Description

This is a course that provides high-achieving students with an advanced research pathway in their fourth year of study within the Bachelor of Fine Arts disciplines of Design, Moving Image, Painting, Photography and Sculpture. This course, while vocationally relevant with respect to emphasis on applied, self-directed learning, promotes the development of specific critical and conceptual skills and knowledge needed to move into post-graduate study, or professional engagement within a range of fine arts related communities of practice. The structure of this course is split between discipline specific studio meetings, workshops, critiques, reading groups, field trips and critical reflection assignments delivered in parallel with 411 studio courses, as well as specific cross-studio seminar sessions, lectures, critiques and workshops. The course culminates in the submission of a substantial body of studio work, supporting documentation and workbooks, plus a 5000 word exegesis that unpacks, contextualises and extends the student’s own practice-based research.

Prerequisites

Subject to approval by the Head of School.

Restrictions

FINA450, FINA451, FINA452

Timetable 2025

Students must attend one activity from each section.

Lecture A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Tuesday 09:30 - 12:30 Fine Arts 106A
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
02 Tuesday 09:30 - 12:30 Fine Arts 115 (block 1)
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
03 Tuesday 09:30 - 12:30 Fine Arts 134 (block 3)
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
04 Tuesday 09:30 - 12:30 Fine Arts 204 (block 1) Photography Studio
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
05 Tuesday 09:30 - 12:30 Fine Arts 143 (block 3)
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 1 Jun
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
Lecture B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 09:30 - 12:30 Fine Arts 106 (block 1)
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 25 May
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
02 Thursday 09:30 - 12:30 Fine Arts 115 (block 1)
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 25 May
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
03 Thursday 09:30 - 12:30 Fine Arts 134 (block 3)
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 25 May
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
04 Thursday 09:30 - 12:30 Fine Arts 204 (block 1) Photography Studio
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 25 May
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
05 Thursday 09:30 - 12:30 Fine Arts 143 (block 3)
17 Feb - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 25 May
14 Jul - 24 Aug
8 Sep - 19 Oct
Lecture C
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 14:00 - 16:00 Fine Arts 124A Seminar Room
17 Feb - 23 Feb
3 Mar - 9 Mar
17 Mar - 23 Mar
31 Mar - 6 Apr
28 Apr - 4 May
12 May - 18 May
21 Jul - 27 Jul
4 Aug - 10 Aug
18 Aug - 24 Aug
15 Sep - 21 Sep
29 Sep - 5 Oct
13 Oct - 19 Oct
Presentation A
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Wednesday 08:00 - 17:00 Rehua 226 Te Moana nui a Kiwa
26 May - 1 Jun
Presentation B
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Thursday 08:00 - 17:00 Rehua 226 Te Moana nui a Kiwa
26 May - 1 Jun
Presentation C
Activity Day Time Location Weeks
01 Friday 08:00 - 17:00 Rehua 226 Te Moana nui a Kiwa
26 May - 1 Jun

Course Coordinator

For further information see Creative and Digital Arts Head of Department

Assessment

Assessment Due Date Percentage 
Completed body of work 70%
Written exegesis, 5000 words 20%
Research presentation with external panel 10%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $8,845.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

Limited Entry Course

Maximum enrolment is 50

For further information see Creative and Digital Arts .

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