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DIGIHLTH 702
: Health Knowledge Management2024 Semester One (1243)
Analyses the role and dynamics of knowledge in the working environment in the health sector, and develops aspects of knowledge infrastructure.
Restriction: HLTHINFO 723
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DIGIHLTH 705
: Digital Health Design and Evaluation2024 Semester One (1243)
Examines the design and development of digital health tools to meet end-user and health service needs. A series of case studies are used to illustrate the different stages of digital health tool development, evaluation, and implementation. Health service, researcher and end-user perspectives are covered.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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DISMGT 701
: Disaster Risk Management2024 Semester One (1243)
A broad based understanding of the critical elements of risk and risk management in pre- and post-disaster scenarios. Key elements include risk identification with regard to the forms and types of risk inherent in areas prone to disasters. Risk management approaches are explored and applied to different aspects of disaster management.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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DISMGT 703
: Disaster Management and Resilience2024 Semester One (1243)
Disaster management concepts and approaches related to urban resilience, including societal and infrastructure resilience. Key elements include exploring holistic approaches to disaster management and assessment of the relationship between resilience and disaster management. This includes systems and complexity, policy and general regulatory environment. This course involves group work and a course project.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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DISMGT 704
: Research Project2024 Semester One (1243)
Supervised research project addressing a topic relevant to disaster management.
To complete this course students must enrol in DISMGT 704 A and B, or DISMGT 704
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DISMGT 704A
: Research Project2024 Semester One (1243)
Supervised research project addressing a topic relevant to disaster management.
To complete this course students must enrol in DISMGT 704 A and B, or DISMGT 704
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DRAMA 100
: Presentation and Performance Skills: Taking the Stage2024 Semester One (1243)
Focuses on enhancing oral communication and performance skills through interactive workshops with speakers and performers highlighting the transferable skills of acting in three main areas: public speaking, improvising and group-devised performance.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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DRAMA 202A
: History and Performance2024 Semester One (1243)
Explores a range of major plays from ancient Greek tragedy to contemporary New Zealand drama. This course examines plays in their historical context and as texts for performance. In Semester Two, students learn skills in theatre production by staging a full-length play, directed by an outside professional director.
Prerequisite: 60 points passed including DRAMA 100
Restriction: DRAMA 204 To complete this course students must enrol in DRAMA 202 A and B
Restriction: DRAMA 204 To complete this course students must enrol in DRAMA 202 A and B
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DRAMA 306
: Production and Management Skills2024 Semester One (1243)
Introduces students to multiple roles and skills needed for the management of productions, companies and other organisations in the performing-arts, specifically drama, but also dance, music and other performance art. Skills discussed include planning and creating schedules and budgets, procuring and managing resources, arts organisation infrastructure and liaison, donor and benefactor development, social marketing and networking, crowdfunding, and outcome reporting.
Prerequisite: DRAMA 202 or 204
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DRAMA 718
: Playwriting2024 Semester One (1243)
A series of exercises in the basic building blocks of dramatic writing, incorporating guest visits from practising and established dramatists.
Restriction: DRAMA 714
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DRAMA 728
: Research Principles for Theatre2024 Semester One (1243)
Outlines the principles of research for theatre. Combines critical enquiry, theory and practical exercises to explore best practice in scholarly and creative performance research. Topics include developing a subject, refining a research question, scholarly research practices, using the creative process as research methodology, and framing research findings. Examines impact of language, culture and gender on theatre research.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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EARTHSCI 105
: Earth’s Natural Hazards2024 Semester One (1243)
New Zealand experiences many natural hazards caused by the Earth’s natural processes through earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, weather bombs, storm surge, tsunami, flooding and wildfires. Focuses on spatial and temporal occurrences of disasters, hazard preparedness and recovery, and societal responses that affect and, sometimes, compound the magnitude of disasters. Case studies are drawn from contemporary and ancient societies.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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EARTHSCI 120
: Planet Earth2024 Semester One (1243)
Examination of geologic processes that have shaped Earth and life through time, and their impact on modern society. Topics include: earthquakes, plate tectonics, volcanic eruptions, tsunamis, landslides, meteorites and planets, mass extinctions and evolution of life. A practical introduction to rocks, minerals and fossils provides insights into Earth's past and important modern resources.
Restriction: EARTHSCI 103
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EARTHSCI 202
: Earth History2024 Semester One (1243)
Explores the evolution of the Earth from its molten beginnings to the dynamic planet we live on today. Topics include: stratigraphy (litho-, bio-, cyclo-, magneto-); evolution; paleoecology; Precambrian Earth (formation, first continents and beginnings of life); development of the Earth and life through the Phanerozoic Eon. Knowledge of geological mapping equivalent to EARTHSCI 201 or 220 will be assumed.
Prerequisite: 75 points, including at least 15 points from EARTHSCI 103, 120
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EARTHSCI 203
: Rock and Minerals2024 Semester One (1243)
The formation of igneous, metamorphic and sedimentary rocks, the minerals they contain, and how they can be used to interpret major Earth Science processes such as crustal evolution, volcanism, mountain building, deformation, and sedimentation.
Prerequisite: 15 points from EARTHSCI 103, 120
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EARTHSCI 220
: Practice in Earth Sciences 12024 Semester One (1243)
A practical and field based course that introduces and develops theory and work flows to enable students to read, document and interpret landforms and landscapes in 4-D. Students will be required to participate in a residential field experience and undertake independent field work.
Prerequisite: 15 points from EARTHSCI 120, GEOG 101
Restriction: EARTHSCI 201, 260
Restriction: EARTHSCI 201, 260
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EARTHSCI 303
: Sedimentary Systems2024 Semester One (1243)
An advanced course that critically examines ancient and contemporary sedimentary systems. State of the art techniques and technologies (sedimentology, geomorphology, modelling) are used to examine the physical and biological processes in freshwater and marine environments. The application of sedimentary systems in the context of Earth’s resources and the current energy transition are highlighted.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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EARTHSCI 307
: Earth's Changing Climate2024 Semester One (1243)
An exploration of long-term climatic and environmental variability from deep time to the present - all placed in the context of our warming world. Emphasis is on the nature and drivers of climate change, and the tools used for analysis of past climate impacts on Earth landscapes, the hydrosphere and the biosphere.
Prerequisite: 45 points at Stage II, including 15 points from EARTHSCI 201, 202, 220, GEOG 260-263, or equivalent
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EARTHSCI 320
: Practice in Earth Sciences 22024 Semester One (1243)
A practical and field based course that embeds theory and work flows to enable students to read, document and interpret complex and vulnerable landforms and landscapes in 4-D. Students will be required to participate in a residential field experience and undertake independent field work.
Prerequisite: EARTHSCI 220
Restriction: EARTHSCI 301, GEOG 330
Restriction: EARTHSCI 301, GEOG 330
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EARTHSCI 372
: Engineering Geology2024 Semester One (1243)
An integration of quantitative and qualitative concepts in geology as applied to engineering projects. Fundamentals of soil and rock mechanics will be introduced. Topics covered in the course include landslides, dewatering schemes, contaminant transport, foundations, mines (open-pit and underground), dams, tunnels, urban geology, and transportation infrastructures. Case studies are used in lectures to demonstrate the importance of geology and water to engineering projects. Fieldwork is required.
Prerequisite: CIVIL 220 or EARTHSCI 201 or 220 or GEOLOGY 201, and 30 points from EARTHSCI 201-263, GEOG 260-263, GEOLOGY 202-205
Restriction: CIVIL 726, GEOLOGY 372
Restriction: CIVIL 726, GEOLOGY 372
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EARTHSCI 714
: Faults and Fluids2024 Semester One (1243)
Fault-fluid interaction is critical in earthquake dynamics and hydrothermal systems that have implications for geothermal energy, ore mineralisation and, via hydrothermal alteration, land stability. We will explore the fundamentals of these interactions and their relevance to hazard and resource challenges of society today. This course will be anchored by a strong in-person field component.
Restriction: EARTHSCI 706
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EARTHSCI 732
: Exploring Environmental Change2024 Semester One (1243)
Sedimentary and biological records show that extreme, rapid and short-lived climatic and environmental changes occurred in the past. Case studies are used to introduce the tools used to identify and interpret abrupt environmental changes during the Last Glacial Period and Holocene that may have implications for the present and our future.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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EARTHSCI 771
: Advanced Engineering Geology2024 Semester One (1243)
Advanced engineering geology focused on engineering practice. Interpretation of in-situ testing and laboratory test data (including groundwater) for the derivation of design parameters for input into numerical modeling software. The topics covered include, but are not limited to, design and analysis of site investigation, advanced core logging, slope stability analysis, rock fall assessment, introduction to numerical modeling, liquefaction and seismic hazard assessment for engineering design.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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EARTHSCI 772
: Hydrogeology2024 Semester One (1243)
Introduces aquifers and aquifer properties; the various processes and techniques utilised in the discovery, development and assessment of groundwater resources; groundwater in construction; groundwater contamination.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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ECON 151
: Understanding the Global Economy2024 Semester One (1243)
Economics affects our daily lives and the global environment in many ways. Through the media we are constantly made aware of price increases, interest rate changes, exchange rate movements and balance of payments problems, growth and recessions, standard of living comparisons, regional trading agreements. What does it all mean and how does it all work?
Restriction: BUSINESS 115, ECON 101, 111, 191