100-level

COMS101
Media and Society
Description
COMS101 explores the relationship between society and media - including social media, print, broadcasting, and all kinds of online spaces. It asks how our understandings of the world and people around us are mediated, how media have shaped society, and how society is reflected and produced through media. We will explore topics like media audiences, technologies, ownership and work; the frames of representation, power, and identity; and analytical tools like semiotics, discourse, and narrative. COMS101 is a stage one course that does not require any prior media study, but it builds on everything you have ever watched, listened to, interacted with, and produced. This course has on-campus and distance options. It includes weekly written exercises and requires active in-class engagement on campus, or in the distance stream to develop core university skills and learn effectively from the teaching staff and from each other.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester One 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
CINE102
The Backpacker's Guide to World Cinema
Description
This course identifies the formal, stylistic and thematic concerns that are shared, despite their apparent diversity, by a cross section of contemporary films. Students will analyse a selection of notable films from around the world that revise, resist or reject the standard practices or themes of mainstream cinema.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Restrictions
TAFS102
HSRV104
Youth Realities
Description
The course introduces students to the diverse realities of ‘youth’ with a focus on multiple contexts. Students explore the concept of youth and the cultural, historical, political and economic contexts in which young people live and the decisions that they make. We critically consider the issues that place young people outside the margins of dominant society, and the responses, models and theoretical frameworks used in youth studies.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester One 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Restrictions
SOWK104
MAOR108
Te Patu a Maui : The Treaty of Waitangi - facing and overcoming colonisation
Description
Through focus on the themes of Power, Property and Citizenship, this course examines the historical realities of the Treaty, enabling an understanding of the modern colonial nation state and its processes with respect to Indigenous peoples. The course examines Maori responses, engagement with, and resistance to the colonial project leading to a critical understanding of colonialism.
Occurrences
Summer Nov 2023 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Restrictions
CULT114, MAOR113 (prior to 2006)
MAOR108
Te Patu a Maui : The Treaty of Waitangi - facing and overcoming colonisation
Description
Through focus on the themes of Power, Property and Citizenship, this course examines the historical realities of the Treaty, enabling an understanding of the modern colonial nation state and its processes with respect to Indigenous peoples. The course examines Maori responses, engagement with, and resistance to the colonial project leading to a critical understanding of colonialism.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Semester Two 2024 (Distance)
Special non-calendar-based One 2024 (UC Online)
Special non-calendar-based Four 2024 (UC Online)
Points
15 points
Restrictions
CULT114, MAOR113 (prior to 2006)
ENGL110
Maori Storytelling
Description
This course introduces students to a wide range of Maori writing in English and situates these works within a vast and vibrant whakapapa of Maori creative production in Aotearoa and beyond. Key themes within the course include: purakau and their contemporary retellings, Maori futurism(s), representations of kai and palate politics, the relationship between birds, writers, and the written word, and narrative sovereignty.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Semester Two 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
GEOG110
People, Places and Environments
Description
This course draws on the insights of human geography to deepen your understanding of how people make places and shape environments. We examine the economic, social and cultural processes that create contemporary places and also consider their possible futures. Through practical work, you will learn some of the key methods and techniques available for describing and analyzing how places change.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Points
15 points
Restrictions
GEOG107
SOCI111
Exploring Society
Description
An introduction to the major themes in contemporary sociology in a way that is relevant to New Zealand culture and society.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Points
15 points
ARTH112
Art and Things: introduction to Art History and Material Culture
Description
This is an integrated introduction to Art History and Material Culture, providing you with an up-to-date, varied and critical 'toolkit' for thinking about art, architecture and objects. The discipline of Art History has a history of its own, and as you will see, this distorts what we understand about art and about 'things'.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Points
15 points
SOCI112
Global Society
Description
Combining sociological theory and concepts with arguments and examples drawn from around the globe, this course conveys the scope and value of sociology for understanding the complex and fast-changing world in which we live.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
MAOR172
Science, Maori and Indigenous Knowledge
Description
This is an integrated multi-disciplinary course between Aotahi: School of Maori and Indigenous Studies and the College of Science. This course provides a basic understanding of Maori and indigenous peoples’ knowledge in such fields as astronomy, physics, conservation biology, aquaculture, resource management and health sciences. The course provides unique perspectives in indigenous knowledge, western science and their overlap. The course will provide an essential background in cultural awareness and its relationship with today’s New Zealand scientific community.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Restrictions
SCIM101

Not Offered Courses in 2024

100-level

ENGL103
The Outsider
Description
However you think about the outsider - as artist, as outlaw or anarchist, as hero or scapegoat, as criminal or critic - it is clear that this figure is a constant in the study of literature. In this course we shall investigate the way the figure of the outsider has been represented in the traditions of American and New Zealand literature. Furthermore, we will bring to bear on this figure three key critical contexts: romanticism, modernism and post-colonialism.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2018 , 2020 , 2021 , 2022 , 2023
For further information see ENGL103 course details
Points
15 points
HIST128
New Zealand History from Waka to Weta
Description
From the arrival of the first peoples, to the successful creativity of Weta Workshops, this course introduces the essentials of New Zealand history according to the very latest scholarship. Located at the fault lines of the past, the course mixes wars, strikes, disease, guilt and apology with utopic visions and world-leading creativity and innovation. Major themes are Maori and Pakeha conflict and collaboration, the development and tensions of a ‘new world’ colonial nation, and New Zealand’s changing place on the world stage. Through a series of innovative assignments, you will learn how to research and write history at the university level.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017
For further information see HIST128 course details
Points
15 points