New Zealand

This course examines the relationship between Indigenous peoples and the criminal justice systems of settler colonial countries. It draws case examples from Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, Canada and the United States of America. Key concepts covered include indigeneity, gangs, racialization, racialized policing, Indigenous jurisprudence, restorative justice, over-representation, criminality, mass and hyper incarceration, settler colonialism, decoloniality and historical trauma.

This course examines the major influences on and developments in feminist theory and gender and sexuality studies up to the present day. Among the topics considered are: gender and sexual difference and diversity, sexual politics and sexuality, the relationships between gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity and class, and postmodernism and post-feminism. These topics are explored in a global and cross-cultural context, through close engagement with the writings of key thinkers in the field.

This course examines critical social science research in Aotearoa New Zealand. It adopts an interdisciplinary approach spanning Indigenous and Feminist studies, political science and sociology, and is organized around the case study of climate change.

This course develops students’ skills in communicating effectively and ethically to promote positive social change. Students will produce communication relating to real-world social issues, where possible in partnership with an external organization working to promote social change. The course also looks at processes for carrying out stakeholder consultation and audience testings 

This course examines how Māori, Pacific and Indigenous communities respond, adapt and mitigate the challenges presented by climate change drawing on indigenous theoretical approaches and relationships with land, oceans, culture, resources, development and political frameworks within settler-colonial states and Pacific nations and others.

This course examines various concepts related to software, system and network security. It covers a range of topics including attacks on privacy and attack surface, static and dynamic analysis of malware, hardware security (trusted computing base, secure boot, and attestation), network security and some hot topics in cryptography including elliptic curve, blockchain and bitcoin.

This course examines current issues in the study of psychological disorders. It presents an introduction to a range of psychological disorders of childhood and adulthood and highlights the scientist-practitioner approach that is applied in clinical psychology.

This course introduces students to the clothing design process, exploring various technical and conceptual skills to inform and support the creative process. Students will explore the relationship between the body and cloth, and the role that clothing plays in constructing identity.

This course examines practical elements of studio-based television production.

This course examines the genre of film as a key medium for the representation of children’s literature.  It will take a number of children’s ‘classics’, as well as three key 21st century novels for young readers, and considers how they have been adapted and interpreted in diverse ways, using varied film technologies, as entertainment objects for children, family and adult audiences. Topics will include: the emergence of cinema as a storytelling tool; development and impact of animation and special effects technologies; the importance of fairy tales in the development of children’s media; theories of adaptation; child-centred storytelling; theories of audiences and spectatorship; genre; fantasy; gender; humor and the grotesque; horror and the uncanny; and contemporary dystopian film and fiction.