Victoria University of Wellington

This course examines anthropological approaches to kinship, sexuality, and gender. Students explore the shifting social norms surrounding gender, sexuality, the family, and relatedness across diverse cultural settings. The course reveals how practices of gender, sexuality, and kinship intersect with new reproductive technologies, media, nationalism, capitalism, colonisation, class, and race.

This course provides an introduction to theoretical questions and experimental research in developmental psychology, from infancy to adulthood. The course covers critical issues in perceptual, cognitive, linguistic, emotional and social development.

This course provides the opportunity to practice traditional and contemporary approaches to both observational and imaginative drawing. In addition to building on skills and techniques developed in DSDN 152 Drawing I, students are encouraged to nurture their personal practice and develop their creative voice through drawing. Each week the bulk of time is spent drawing in studio, with mentoring. Emphasis is placed on experimentation with mediums, styles and exercises that expand individual drawing practice beyond the classroom. Occasional tutorials or lectures introduce fundamental concepts, provide historical and contemporary context, and provide examples for critical analyses. Discussion and critique aid this process while creating a vehicle for students to incorporate gained knowledge into their personal creative expression and design practice.

This course introduces the main themes, concepts and debates in human geography and development studies. Case studies to illustrate these topics are drawn from across the world, with particular emphasis on patterns and processes in developing countries in the regions that surround Oceania, Latin America and the Asia-Pacific region. The course introduces core, cross-cutting concepts in geography and development studies and how these seek to understand global problems. The course then explores development geographies; political geographies, migration geographies, social and cultural geographies and how these are manifested in urban and rural settings.

Great Ideas is a course reflecting on some of the most exciting, important and revolutionary ideas that have shaped society and culture as it is today. It also considers how those ideas have an ongoing influence. It’s an interdisciplinary course looking at topics across the humanities, arts and social sciences.

This studio-based course covers creative and interpretive aspects of drawing with an emphasis on manual graphic processes. The course examines the conventions and standards of architectural representation common to drawing practice.

This course develops the technical skills of drawing and the understanding of human anatomy, kinesiology, perspective, motion, light, and proportion. This course nurtures personal practice and develops creative voice through drawing. Skills learned can be applied in many design contexts and programmes. Students who pass this course should be able to: Develop a drawing practice that demonstrates use of professional techniques. Describe various aspects of drawing within the context of history and its trajectory?. Apply drawing techniques in a variety of design disciplines.

This course explores the climate system and the cryosphere, focussing on interactions between the two. The course provides a comprehensive treatment of climate processes over the 2000 years leading into the modern era of anthropogenic influence; case studies of ice-climate interactions; and recent behavior of ice sheets, mountain glaciers, and sea ice.

This course examines modern and past Earth environments and the key processes that have shaped them. The course focuses on understanding and interpreting evidence from the geological record for environmental change and using this knowledge to help predict future variability. Specific focus is on Antarctica, the Southwest Pacific, and New Zealand.

This course introduces students to strategies and techniques in which to perceive theatrical performance in the contemporary context. The course offers opportunities for practical and theoretical engagement with performance, enabling students to better understand performance discourses through practical work, while also offering skills to reflect on their practice in a theoretical way. The teaching material is framed around three core elements: theatre technology, devised performance, and performance studies.