University of Auckland

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 examines the central principles and concepts of marketing strategy and management. It highlights the challenges that marketing managers face in planning and implementing effective marketing mix strategies.

This course examines remote sensing tools and techniques and their application within the earth, environmental and urban environments. It focuses on the processing, analysis and interpretation of data collected by government and commercial satellites, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) and aerial photography. The course introduces image interpretation, multispectral images, supervised and unsupervised image classification and change detection. 

This course examines the fundamentals and principles of dramatic writing for screen, providing an immersive experience in the principles of screenplay writing with particular attention paid to visual language, narrative structure, characterization and dialogue, script critiques and the process of rewriting.

This course examines human nutrition as it applies to sport and exercise. It introduces principles of physiology and biochemistry that underpin diets and nutritional practices for physical activity. It looks at the fundamentals of nutrition, macro- and micro-nutrients, fluids, dietary supplements, and drugs in sport. 

This course supports progression towards an independent studio practice. Students are asked to develop studio-based projects in response to technology as a ‘non human Other.’ In this context, non-human Other refers to human engagement with technologies, practices, machines, tools, in ways that yield ideas, critical thinking, and a systems-based way of thinking and making. Getting to know this non-human Other as a collaborator, deepening an understanding and/or relationship with it, working with it in a transformative and artistic way to produce a body of work engaging with contemporary art ideas and practices, is the purpose of the course. Students are encouraged to pursue exploration with their chosen practice(s), including painting, print, photography, and time-based or sculptural approaches. The course encourages increased artistic independence supported by seminars, readings, small group student-led and lecturer supported dialogue. Underpinning all teaching and learning in this course are the principles of partnership, participation, protection, and whanaungatanga, explored through exchange, collaboration, and shared responsibility for learning within a community of contemporary art practice. 

This course examines central concerns that have arisen in late modernist art, exploring the moves, intensifications and political implications of art in the post-1968 period: dematerialization of the art object, site-specificity, the artist in a commodity culture, activism, questions of identity, notions of looking and spectatorship, interactivity, new media, contemporary censorship and debates about the place of the aesthetic.

This course examines topics such as the nature of science and matauranga Maori; the origin and age of the Universe and our solar system; the origin and evolution of life on Earth; extremophiles and the environmental limits of life; the search for habitable environments in the Solar System; exploration of Mars and Icy Worlds for extra-terrestrial life; extrasolar planets; planetary protection; and the ethics and future of space exploration. 

This course examines a range of practices, research and theories in the contemporary visual arts focusing on a selection of critical transformations in this field.