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FINEARTS 229

: Painting: Painted Images
2024 Semester One (1243)
Explores contemporary techniques of still life and representational painting as a means of re-thinking visual histories. Students will gather and arrange source materials and object references and explore a range of painted responses. Emphasises the construction and preparation of supports and surfaces, colour theory, and the methods and mediums that support painting practice.
Subject: Fine Arts
Prerequisite: FINEARTS 101, 102, 103, 104, or FINEARTS 110, 113 and FINEARTS 111 or 112
602

FINEARTS 230

: Sculpture: Constructing and Fabricating
2024 Semester One (1243)
Based in the metal and wood workshops, this course will guide students in the exploration of materials and construction processes. Develop sculptural works in metal or wood. Students will use tools and techniques such as cutting, joining and welding.
Subject: Fine Arts
Prerequisite: FINEARTS 101, 102, 103, 104, or FINEARTS 110, 113 and FINEARTS 111 or 112
603

FINEARTS 235

: Creative Careers: Making Exhibitions
2024 Semester One (1243)
Students will consider the types of roles and structures that exist in contemporary art worlds, with a focus on curatorial practice and exhibition making from the perspective of the artist. Engaging with the local art world, students will develop a critically informed exhibition proposal for a real-world context.
Subject: Fine Arts
Prerequisite: FINEARTS 101, 102, 103, 104, or FINEARTS 110, 113 and FINEARTS 111 or 112
604

FINEARTS 241

: Indigeneity and Culture: Power and Place
2024 Semester One (1243)
Explores and examines the ongoing impact of colonisation, imperialism, and migration through art making. Related indigenous methodologies and concepts will be explored.
Subject: Fine Arts
Prerequisite: FINEARTS 101, 102, 103, 104, or FINEARTS 110, 113 and FINEARTS 111 or 112
605

FINEARTS 242

: Image, Object and Materiality: What is an Image?
2024 Semester One (1243)
Addresses image-making in a digital world. Explores the relation between the fabrication of individual images and their circulation through mass media using different mediums. Reflection on the different ways artists might embrace or subvert the profusion of internet imagery.
Subject: Fine Arts
Prerequisite: FINEARTS 101, 102, 103, 104, or FINEARTS 110, 113 and FINEARTS 111 or 112
606

FINEARTS 246

: Systems, Ecologies and Environments: Art in the Anthropocene
2024 Semester One (1243)
Students will undertake a studio art project that responds to the challenges of the Anthropocene and climate change. The course explores related art and ideas from Aotearoa and overseas.
Subject: Fine Arts
Prerequisite: FINEARTS 101, 102, 103, 104, or FINEARTS 110, 113 and FINEARTS 111 or 112
607

FINEARTS 320

: Creative Methods for Studio Practice
2024 Semester One (1243)
Explores methods for studio practice through an introduction to different approaches for making and thinking creatively. Methods are drawn from the visual arts as well as examples located in poetic, embodied and philosophical orientations to the world. Students apply these in relation to their artistic practice, as well as experiment with developing their own working methods.
Subject: Fine Arts
Prerequisite: FINEARTS 204, 207, 208, or FINEARTS 204, 207, 212, or FINEARTS 204, 208, 209, or FINEARTS 110-113, 90 points from FINEARTS 220-250
608

FINEARTS 759

: Studio
2024 Semester One (1243)
An advanced studio course in which students complete a significant studio art project that demonstrates a sustained level of practical and conceptual enquiry.
Subject: Fine Arts
To complete this course students must enrol in FINEARTS 759 A and B, or FINEARTS 759
609

FINEARTS 759A

: Studio
2024 Semester One (1243)
An advanced studio course in which students complete a significant studio art project that demonstrates a sustained level of practical and conceptual enquiry.
Subject: Fine Arts
To complete this course students must enrol in FINEARTS 759 A and B, or FINEARTS 759
610

FINEARTS 761

: Contemporary Practice 1
2024 Semester One (1243)
A studio-based investigation of a specific medium of contemporary practice. Students will develop advanced conceptual capabilities in that medium and realise finished works to an advanced standard. These specialised outcomes will be informed by complementary acquisition of advanced technical skills and theoretical knowledge in co-requisite courses focused on the same medium.
Subject: Fine Arts
Corequisite: FINEARTS 762 or 763
611

FINEARTS 763

: Theories of Practice 1
2024 Semester One (1243)
A seminar-based interrogation of contemporary theories and contexts pertinent to a specific medium of contemporary practice. Students will develop an advanced understanding of key critical and contextual analysis in that medium. This understanding will complement the attainment of specialised creative studio capabilities and acquired advanced technical skills focused on the same medium.
Subject: Fine Arts
No pre-requisites or restrictions
612

FINEARTS 770

: Research Methodologies
2024 Semester One (1243)
A guided exploration of key research methodologies relevant to contemporary art and art writing. Students draw upon these methodologies to inform and critically investigate their current and ongoing independent research in the discipline at an advanced level.
Subject: Fine Arts
No pre-requisites or restrictions
613

FOODSCI 200

: Food Composition and Nutrition
2024 Semester One (1243)
Covers the composition and structure of food. The approach will extend the FOODSCI 100 content from lipids to proteins, carbohydrates and key minor food components. There will be a focus on the molecular structure of the major food components and how they relate to the physical, sensory and nutritional properties of foods.
Subject: Food Science
Prerequisite: 15 points from BIOSCI 106, CHEM 110, FOODSCI 100
Restriction: FOODSCI 201
614

FOODSCI 306

: Principles of Food Processing
2024 Semester One (1243)
The fundamental principles of freezing and thawing, thermal processing and canning, fermentation and dehydration are studied. The fundamental areas of engineering relevant for food processing such as heat and mass transfer, are covered. Process impact on food safety, quality and preservation is also discussed.
Subject: Food Science
Prerequisite: FOODSCI 202
Restriction: CHEMMAT 756
615

FOODSCI 310

: Theory of Food Product Design
2024 Semester One (1243)
Examines the science underpinning human sensory perception and food preferences and how this science interfaces with the design and development of food products as well as the fundamental aspects of food product development.
Subject: Food Science
Prerequisite: FOODSCI 100, 200 and STATS 101 or 108
Restriction: FOODSCI 303, 304
616

FOODSCI 399

: Capstone: Food and Nutrition
2024 Semester One (1243)
Food and Nutrition pathway students will work together in groups to identify and develop a new food product or food system that addresses or responds to a nutritional issue. Students will focus on the interplay between the nutritional aspects of the product or system and the sensory, stability, convenience, cost, regulatory and processing aspects of the product.
Subject: Food Science
Prerequisite: FOODSCI 303 or 310 and a further 30 points at Stage III in Food Science and Nutrition
617

FOODSCI 707

: Food Science
2024 Semester One (1243)
Chemical, biological and physical aspects of foods. The decomposition of food due to lipid oxidation. Integrated study of selected basic foods.
Subject: Food Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions
618

FOODSCI 740

: Food Analysis
2024 Semester One (1243)
Students are provided with an opportunity to experience a range of analytical techniques that are used in food industry laboratories and in food science research.
Subject: Food Science
Restriction: FOODSCI 301, 610
619

FOODSCI 750

: Advanced Topics in Food Science 1
2024 Semester One (1243)
A modular course consisting of topics chosen from the diverse research interests of the Food Science staff and academic visitors which may vary from year to year.
Subject: Food Science
Prerequisite: Permission of Programme Director
Restriction: FOODSCI 709
620

FORENSIC 702

: Introduction to Forensic Science
2024 Semester One (1243)
Forensic biology, documents, fingerprints, physical evidence, toolmarks, fire examination, explosives, hairs and fibres, drugs, toxicology, alcohol (including blood and breath alcohol), crime scene examination, firearms identification.
Subject: Forensic Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions
621

FORENSIC 703

: Statistics and Molecular Biology for Forensic Science
2024 Semester One (1243)
Statistics: data summarisation and reduction, laws of probability, conditional probability, likelihood ratios and Bayes theorem. Interpretation of statistical results. Forensic biology: basic principles of population genetics, genomic structure, conventional blood grouping. DNA profiling: structure, enzymology and basic chemistry of nucleic acids, PCR and microsatellites, interpretation of DNA profiles, developing forensic DNA technologies.
Subject: Forensic Science
No pre-requisites or restrictions
622

FORENSIC 707A

: Project in Forensic Science
2024 Semester One (1243)
A research essay on an aspect of forensic science.
Subject: Forensic Science
Restriction: FORENSIC 705 To complete this course students must enrol in FORENSIC 707 A and B, or FORENSIC 707
623

FRENCH 101

: Introductory French Language 1
2024 Semester One (1243)
Introduces students to spoken and written French. It is delivered through two 90-minute sessions per week on campus, blended with an on-line component that uses up-to-date methodology and extensive multimedia materials. It is open to beginners or near beginners. Students who have achieved 24 recent credits in Level 1 NCEA French or 12-16 recent credits in Level 2 NCEA French (or equivalent previous study) should enrol in FRENCH 102. FRENCH 101 does not count towards a major in French. May not be taken if a more advanced language acquisition course in this subject has previously been passed.
Subject: French
No pre-requisites or restrictions
624

FRENCH 203

: Intermediate French Language 1
2024 Semester One (1243)
Consolidates and expands previously acquired knowledge and skills to an intermediate proficiency in everyday authentic French language. Delivered through two 90-minute sessions per week on campus, blended with on-line learning tasks that use extensive multimedia materials. A range of activities are used to develop speaking, listening, reading and writing skills and students’ strategies for autonomous learning. Note: Students with NCEA level 3 French should enrol in this course. May not be taken if a more advanced language acquisition course in this subject has previously been passed.
Subject: French
Prerequisite: FRENCH 102, or approval of Academic Head or nominee
625

FRENCH 229

: The French-speaking World
2024 Semester One (1243)
A study of culture in texts and films from France, North Africa, Africa, Canada, the Caribbean and the Pacific.
Subject: French
Prerequisite: 15 points from FRENCH 204, 269, 304
Restriction: FRENCH 329