New Zealand

In this studio course students will be introduced to fundamental pattern making methods through an applied 3D- 2D developmental process. 

This course examines modern predictive modelling techniques, with application to realistically large data sets. Case studies will be drawn from business, industrial, and government applications.

This course examines the interplay of religion, law and politics in contemporary India, Sri Lanka, America, New Zealand, Canada and elsewhere. Themes include secularism, religious freedom, pluralism and others.

This course examines Indigenous Māori cultural framework as a lens to better understand contemporary organizational issues, such as bicultural governance, structure, ethical leadership and organizational behaviors.

This course examines the various ways in which we can study the dead. It covers three areas: the interpretation of mortuary practices, the interpretation of past lives from skeletal remains, and the practice of burial archaeology in the southern hemisphere.

This course takes a loosely chronological approach to global moments of encounter, challenge, resistance, and transformation over the past 500 years. It looks closely at political events, and views them through images and objects, manifestos and interventions. The course pays attention to issues of propaganda, resistance, civil rights, protest, and crisis. We take care to address contemporary transformations happening in museum and gallery spaces due to issues of equity, race, gender, culture and class. 

This course examines schooling across cultural borders; theories of development; New Zealand’s trade/aid relations with less developed countries; postcolonial theory and Western and Indigenous knowledges; the politics of English language teaching in non-English speaking settings and global flows of students/teachers and educational ideas.

This course examines historical biogeography of plants; plant adaptations and vegetation dynamics; world biome types; plants and society; and human impacts on vegetation.

This course examines trees and their environment. A basic understanding of environmental and climatic effects on trees will underpin methods of species selection, growing and maintaining trees and site specific management.