University of Auckland

This course offers an introduction to New Zealand’s home-grown popular music from roughly the 1950s to the present day. A broad range of musical styles are considered and situated within various social contexts. The issue of cultural identity in music – at national and local levels – is also explored.

This course examines fundamental concepts in geomorphology for geologists and physical geographers. Key aspects of geomorphology, sedimentology, and earth surface processes are introduced by studying the temporal and spatial development of coastal and river landforms. Applied techniques for earth and environmental sciences, including field, remote sensing, GIS mapping, and modelling.

This course examines the generalized linear model and extensions to fit data arising from a range of sources including multiple regression models, logistic regression models, and log-linear models.

This course offers an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the importance of our oceans as the driver of our climate, source of sustenance, and focus of domestic and international political, economic and legal negotiations. Students explore topics including but not limited to oceanic processes such as global and local currents and oceanic weather, marine life and marine biology, resources within our oceans, and the future and potential futures of the world's oceans as affected by humans and global warming.

This course examines teachers and teaching. It explores teaching traditions, their origins, stories of teaching in New Zealand; stories of teachers that generate change; and how teaching and teachers are understood in diverse contexts such as early childhood, schooling and our wider communities. It considers the following: How should we teach? What counts as knowledge? What contradictions do teachers encounter?