University of Waikato

The work-related project is primarily a university-based project with a focus on particular professional ecologies connected with arts discipline skills, practices, praxis and performance. Projects provide an opportunity for students to either reflect on key issues attached to communication and creative industries or simulate aspects of professional practice (e.g. professional writing, research, or creative practice).

This course develops technical composition skills and deepens artistic awareness in creating, manipulating, and analyzing music. It explores creative and technical approaches drawn from historical and contemporary art music, as well as various popular idioms. It covers melody writing, thematic development, harmonic understanding, and contemporary musical languages.

This course continues to develop the fundamental techniques which enable students to perform proficiently in a public arena on a chosen instrument.

This course examines major world cultures and their languages in a comparative context. Students will gain a critical understanding of culture and diversity through examining the languages and cultures of China, France, Japan, Korea, Spain and Latin America.

This course examines marine conservation and spatial prioritization tools and protocols for enabling multiple simultaneous uses of the coastal marine estate and their application to environmental management.

This course examines marine protection and conservation science and associated management of marine environments. It covers the principles of marine protection, including the varied ways that marine habitats are assessed for protection, can be protected, and the techniques used to assess whether protection has been successful.

This course examines the many different ways that we might think about fans and fan cultures, from what they think about, talk about and produce, to the way they are seen by themselves, other fans, media industries, the culture more broadly. This course encourages students to observe the media around them and to assess it critically, including understanding economic and power dynamics, as well as the role that is played by gender, race, ethnicity, language, sexuality, and cultural and social capital.

This course examines the historical legacies of systemic class oppression, racism, sexism, and homophobia by taking an in-depth look at key issues raised in 20th-century social movements in New Zealand and the United States and mapping those issues into the 21st century.

This course examines the study of international relations in an era of globalization. It covers the historical background, key concepts and theories, case studies, and contemporary developments in the study of world politics.

This course is an introduction to theoretical and practical components of weaving kete. Students learn to weave kete and critically examine traditional techniques, along with modern day applications.