Victoria University of Wellington

This course examines island and ocean geographies in postcolonial contexts, such as climate change, forced migration, militarization, biodiversity, and the blue economy. Geographic theories, including material geographies, political geographies, more-than-human geographies, and feminist geographies are explored. Topics include geographic concepts of region, scale, scarcity, boundaries, marginality, and identity. Case studies are drawn from the wider Pacific region, including New Zealand.

This course develops the academic writing skills of students from all university disciplines. Students practise techniques for generating research questions and for drafting and revising essays and reports, based on individual feedback from tutor and peers, prior to assessment. Research and referencing abilities are taught to help writers meet the expectations of university audiences.

This course explores British and Irish literature from 1910 to the Second World War. Students study many of the major writers of the Modernist period and poetry short stories, novels, and plays. Particular attention is paid to the historical context, including the First World War, feminism, the Depression, Irish politics and nationalism, and the emergence of totalitarian ideologies.

This course introduces American politics, with a particular focus on the continued development of America's system of government. The course examines major political themes in US politics against the background of the relationships between different branches of government under the US Constitution.

This course covers management, procurement, and development. It examines the theories and ideas that underpin planning, organizing, directing, and controlling the use of resources over time. Topics include the principles of management, organizational development, basic finance, costing, development feasibility, valuation theory, and quantitative analysis relevant to the construction industry.

In this interdisciplinary course, students examine the changing nature of work and employment from a range of perspectives including sociology, history, philosophy, media studies, design, and management. This course traces the history of work and employment, and considers the contemporary challenges facing workers and their employers in the context of labor market and wider social changes. Students evaluate a range of views on these changes, and apply their understandings to a specific challenge presented by a Wellington organization.