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FRENCH 304
: Advanced French Language 12024 Semester One (1243)
Strengthens students' command of reading, writing, speaking and listening in French. Organised thematically and uses both textual and audiovisual material to introduce students to a range of communicative registers. May not be taken if a more advanced language acquisition course in this subject has previously been passed.
Prerequisite: FRENCH 204
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FRENCH 329
: The French-speaking World2024 Semester One (1243)
A study of culture in texts and films from France, North Africa, Africa, Canada, the Caribbean and the Pacific. Taught in French.
Prerequisite: FRENCH 304
Restriction: FRENCH 229
Restriction: FRENCH 229
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FRENCH 705
: Advanced Language2024 Semester One (1243)
Advanced language practice in French, with emphasis on close-reading, textual summary and synthesis of both aural and written texts. French techniques of writing will be studied and students will apply these in written assignments.
Prerequisite: FRENCH 305 or placement test and approval of Academic Head or nominee
Restriction: FRENCH 702, 703
Restriction: FRENCH 702, 703
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GENDER 208
: Thinking Gender2024 Semester One (1243)
Interdisciplinary examination of feminist theories of gender and sexuality. Focuses on contemporary issues, debates, and practices, while grounding them in foundational theories and investigating how these issues and debates play out across disciplines and practices. Examples include the perils of identity politics, tensions between feminist and queer theories, the politics of representation, and gender justice in a globalised world.
Prerequisite: 30 points passed
Restriction: GENDER 308
Restriction: GENDER 308
630
GENDER 211
: Transgender and the Queering of Sexuality2024 Semester One (1243)
Considers challenges of being transgender, coming out and queering sex/gender normativity. Transgender theory is deployed to analyse and interrogate material and subjective aspects of transgender, including generational attitudinal changes and the implications for capitalism, politics, culture and society. Draws on psychoanalytic-influenced theories to question and queer human sexuality, libidinal investments in masculine domination and sex/gender essentialism.
Prerequisite: 30 points passed at Stage I
Restriction: GENDER 311
Restriction: GENDER 311
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GENDER 306
: Gender and Change: Making Waves2024 Semester One (1243)
Explores the relationship between gender and other structures of inequality, like sexuality and ethno-race, and progressive social change. Develops and engages students’ theoretically informed critical skills in order to interrogate how gender inequality is re-produced, contested and/or transformed through all or some of the following: literary texts, visual representations, media texts, everyday practices and interactions, and policy.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Gender Studies, or 15 points at Stage II in Gender Studies and 30 points passed at Stage II in BA courses
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GENDER 311
: Transgender and the Queering of Sexuality2024 Semester One (1243)
Considers challenges of being transgender, coming out and queering sex/gender normativity. Transgender theory is deployed to analyse and interrogate material and subjective aspects of transgender, including generational attitudinal changes and the implications for capitalism, politics, culture and society. Draws on psychoanalytic-influenced theories to question and queer human sexuality, libidinal investments in masculine domination and sex/gender essentialism.
Prerequisite: 30 points passed at Stage II
Restriction: GENDER 211
Restriction: GENDER 211
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GENDER 700
: Critical Theories and Methods in Gender Studies2024 Semester One (1243)
Engages, using an interdisciplinary approach, critical theories and epistemological debates in gender studies; provides grounding in key gender studies methods and methodologies; traces the evolution in approaches to gender from early feminist scholarship to the present; requires independent research and application of theories and methods.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
634
GEOG 101
: Earth Surface Processes and Landforms2024 Semester One (1243)
Understanding of the functioning of natural systems at the Earth's surface and human interactions with these systems. Examines the operation and interaction between Atmospheric, Hydrological, Ecological and Geomorphic systems. Environmental processes are an integrating theme. Topics include: climate and hydrological systems, ecological processes; surface sediment cycle; and processes governing development and dynamics of major landform types.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
635
GEOG 102
: Geography of the Human Environment2024 Semester One (1243)
Examines the relationships among personal geographies and global geographies of uneven development, economic, environmental and socio-cultural change. Using a variety of examples from New Zealand and the world we illustrate the connection between local places and global issues.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
636
GEOG 103
: Mapping Our World2024 Semester One (1243)
An introduction to contemporary geospatial technologies such as web-mapping, GPS and tracking devices (such as your phone), Remote Sensing and GIS. Covers key concepts and principles behind these tools and their use, along with practical experiences through laboratories. Critical and theoretical perspectives on the tools, their use, and their social impacts will be discussed.
Restriction: GEOG 140, GISCI 140
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GEOG 202
: Cities, Regions and Communities2024 Semester One (1243)
A critical examination of geographic processes and consequences in contemporary society. Topics are selected from the instructors' research interests, which include: the transformation of urban places and spaces; the forms and location of industries and retailing; social geographies of the city; New Zealand's linkages with the global economy and society; urban historical geographies; and demographic and social changes in New Zealand and the Pacific region.
Prerequisite: 60 points
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GEOG 250
: Geographical Research in Practice2024 Semester One (1243)
A critical exploration of the research experience in geography. Case studies and field work demonstrate approaches to understanding the complex interactions of social and environmental processes. Students will develop practical skills in problem identification, research methodologies, ethics and analytical practices.
Prerequisite: 60 points
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GEOG 305
: Population, Health and Society2024 Semester One (1243)
A survey of major themes in population, health and social geography. An examination of the dynamics of population complements analyses of health and healthcare, the education sector, the welfare state, and the changing character of urban places.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II
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GEOG 307
: Urban Geography2024 Semester One (1243)
Analysis of key processes shaping socio-cultural geographies of contemporary cities. Using international and local examples, issues such as the economy of cities, the culture of cities, home and housing, segregation and polarisation, the imaging of cities and sustainability are explored.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II
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GEOG 320
: Resources and Environmental Management2024 Semester One (1243)
Examines the development and conservation of the environment in its use as a resource base, with particular reference to the way in which institutional structures in society determine provision and allocation. Attention is balanced between international experience and the policy framework in New Zealand. The course provides an understanding of key concepts, practices and methods.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II
642
GEOG 335
: Applied Physical Geography2024 Semester One (1243)
Examines the challenges of ‘doing science’ in the real world. With particular emphasis on climate, fluvial and coastal processes, the types of data, knowledge and information needed for decision making in environmental contexts are examined. Examines the ways human activities effect, and are affected by, the environmental settings of humans. Seeks improved understanding, and prediction, of the world around humans framed as both a resource and hazard.
Prerequisite: 45 points at Stage II in Geography
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GEOG 351
: Coastal and Marine Studies2024 Semester One (1243)
Focuses on the development of coastal landforms across a range of temporal and spatial scales. Introduces natural processes such as waves, tides and circulation, as well as geological-scale coastal evolution driven by changes in sea level and sediment supply. The course has an applied focus with specific emphasis on coastal management problems that affect society. Issues considered include coastal erosion during storms, the impacts of shoreline engineering, climate change and accelerating sea level rise.
Prerequisite: 45 points at Stage II, including EARTHSCI 262 or GEOG 262, or equivalent
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GEOG 701
: Research in Practice2024 Semester One (1243)
A reflection on the process of developing research projects from theory to methods, analysis, and the presentation of findings. Attention is directed to the ways in which research is shaped by intellectual histories, pressing social and environmental challenges, and contemporary academic and political debates. The course allows students to develop specialised interests in geography or environmental management.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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GEOG 738
: Future Food and Biological Economies2024 Semester One (1243)
Investigates contemporary understandings, issues and strategies relating to the development of biological economies and food networks in the context of the globalising food economy. Addresses transformations in agro-food complexes and questions of nature-society relationships to do with 'sustainable' and 'resilient' food production and consumption.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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GEOG 745
: Applied Fluvial Geomorphology2024 Semester One (1243)
Catchment-scale perspectives are used to analyse spatial and temporal variability in river forms and processes. River responses to disturbance are placed in a longer-term evolutionary context. Prospective river futures are appraised using field analyses and numerical modelling applications. These principles and techniques are used to discuss management options. No formal prerequisite but final year undergraduate experience in a related field required.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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GEOG 746
: Applied Coastal Geomorphology2024 Semester One (1243)
An advanced course on the process-form relationships that shape coastlines over a range of spatial and temporal scales. Coastal processes are examined with field experiments in which principles of experiment design and field deployment are demonstrated. Long-term evolutionary perspectives are examined using a range of field techniques. These short- and long-term approaches are then merged to address examples of applied coastal management problems. No formal prerequisite but an understanding equivalent to GEOG 351 will be assumed.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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GEOG 771
: Spatial Analysis and Geocomputation2024 Semester One (1243)
Approaches to and challenges in analysing spatial data. Specific techniques will include geographical regression, point pattern analysis, interpolation, and newer geocomputation and machine learning methods. Students will gain an advanced knowledge of spatial analysis. An understanding equivalent to GISCI 242 will be assumed.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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GERMAN 101
: German Language Introductory 12024 Semester One (1243)
Written and oral use of German for students with no previous knowledge of the language or with fewer than 16 credits in NCEA Level 2 German.
Restriction: May not be taken if a more advanced language acquisition course in this subject has previously been passed
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GERMAN 200
: German Language Intermediate 12024 Semester One (1243)
Written and oral use of German. Assumes that students have passed GERMAN 102 or have achieved in all standards entered for German NCEA Level 3 or gained grade average 50 or above, or have acquired language competence through a stay or exchange in a German-speaking country.
Prerequisite: GERMAN 102 or approval of Academic Head or nominee
Restriction: GERMAN 104. May not be taken if a more advanced language acquisition course in this subject has previously been passed
Restriction: GERMAN 104. May not be taken if a more advanced language acquisition course in this subject has previously been passed