Victoria University of Wellington

This course explores the operations and management of key landform systems. The course provides a detailed synthesis of the physical processes and linkages operating at the earth's surface that shape our landscape and physical environment. Topics include the geomorphology of coasts, tectonic regions, glacial environments, and fluvial systems.

This course covers social theories of violence and security in various contexts, paying particular attention to the gendered dynamics of violence. Topics include state violence, torture, terrorism, sexual violence, violence toward children and intimate partner violence. The ethical and methodological issues involved in researching violence and social policies aimed at reducing violence are debated.

This design studio course explores the methodology of "critique by design" in issues related to the impact of urbanization and its meanings for urban landscape and urban form. The course focuses on design opportunities in an urban context that require an understanding of human behavior in existing neighborhoods, mixed-use sites and redevelopment areas in order to respond to the impact of urban growth, climate change, food production, flood and drought, erosion, deprivation of natural resources, and social justice. Students develop design frameworks through knowledge-based, sustainable, and environmentally-sound green design practices. The course considers the potential for landscape architecture to equitably enhance and elicit aesthetic and social connection within urban fabric. Students develop investigative and evaluative means around these concepts alongside the spatial and environmental concerns of dwelling and recreation.

This course is an introduction to the basic techniques of real analysis within the context of single-variable calculus. Topics include a review of the real number system and the completeness axiom, limits of sequences and the algebra of limits; limits of functions and the algebra of limits; continuous functions and their algebraic properties; the intermediate value theorem; differentiable functions and the algebra of differentiation; the mean value theorem and Taylor's theorem; the Riemann integral; and the fundamental theorems of calculus.

This course is a genre-based and thematic exploration of New Zealand literature from the early 1900s to the present, and examines how the key cultural encounters that have shaped national identity are variously represented within poetry, drama, the short story, the novel, and creative nonfiction.

This course explores human relationships with ecological and material environments. It examines diverse cultural perceptions of and approaches to the environment, the relationship between nature and culture, and anthropology’s contribution to contemporary ecological and climate debates. While this course focuses on the New Zealand and Pacific region, it does incorporate a global perspective, using examples from around the world. Textual documents are used to present concepts and evidence, while visual media is used to present examples and topics of examination and discourse. Field trips are used as a practical way to apply the information discussed in this course.

This course introduces the study of health psychology, with a focus on the key theories, research, and approaches that have been used to understand and influence people's health, illness, and wellbeing.

This course integrates the physical, social, economic, and political factors associated with environmental change. First, the course introduces the earth systems associated with environmental change (both natural and human induced). Second, the course explore the social, political and economic implications of contemporary environmental issues and human-environment relations.

This is an introductory course for students interested in exploring the role of the media in shaping society and politics. The course discusses the rise of the mass-media, the control and regulation of media institutions, and the role of the media in shaping public opinion. Students assess the impact of current developments such as independent media, convergence, digitization, globalisation, and the concentration of media ownership.