JAPA220-25SU2 (C) Summer Nov 2025 start

Anime Aesthetics and Practice

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 10 November 2025
End Date: Sunday, 14 December 2025
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 16 November 2025
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 30 November 2025

Description

The aim of this course is to provide an avenue to understanding the relationship amongst contemporary visual culture, media production and elements of contemporary Japanese culture, particularly as they relate to anime. It will examine a variety of media content, cultural practices and aesthetics that emerged in Japanese animation and game design in the postwar period, enhancing students understanding of, on the one hand, the intersection between the art and aesthetics of Japanese anime and digital media production, and on the other hand, contemporary Japanese culture and society.

Prerequisites

Any 60 points at 100 level from the Schedule V of the BA, or
Schedule V of the BDigiScreen(Hons).

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $998.00

International fee $4,850.00

* 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.

For further information see Language, Social and Political Sciences .

All JAPA220 Occurrences

  • JAPA220-25SU2 (C) Summer Nov 2025 start
  • JAPA220-25SU2 (D) Summer Nov 2025 start (Distance)