New Zealand

This course examines creative technologies and tools that enable the development of creative ideas and expression in a digital world. Students will develop key skills necessary to generate creative works and projects in an interdisciplinary environment that comprise and blends visual art, design layout, audio-visual production and sound design.

This course examines the structure and functioning of marine ecosystems. It explores the fundamentals of ecology (e.g. disturbance/recovery, recruitment, organism interactions with their environment, nutrient cycles, limits on productivity) in a marine setting, as well as human impacts on marine environments including fisheries and the design of ecological surveys and experiments. 

This course examines the legal aspects of forensic science. It covers principles of criminal law, principles of evidence and procedure, expert evidence, interpretation of scientific evidence, probability and statistics.

This course examines the introduction to digital music and audio through computer programming, sound synthesis, and audio effects, with a focus on learning through creative work. Students will gain core abilities in computer programming that will enable them to generate and process sound for use in creative disciplines such as interactive game audio, sound design, web sound, sound art and composition.

This course is an anthropological analysis of responses to death and dying, drawing on cross-cultural case studies and relevant anthropological theories of grief, mourning, and funerary practice. It contextualizes a variety of historical and contemporary responses to death and critically examines the development of "modern" death practices.

This course examines principles of meetings, event and festival management. Topics include the significance of conventions and events, conventions and meetings design, management planning processes, methods and evaluation of conventions and events, infrastructural requirements, impacts, volunteers, sponsorship, programming, event planning and development.

This course examines New Zealand history in a global perspective. It covers the way forces of imperialism, colonization, capitalism and racial conflict have shaped modern New Zealand and its place in the world.

This is a project-centered course, in which students will choose and research a topic of their own choice (subject to approval), with the aim of producing a popularly-oriented non-fiction text which exhibits the fruits of sound scholarship. It examines the structures and strategies of a number of published texts, examining their structure and style, and the variety of sub-genres that can be deployed in writing creative non-fiction.