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SCREEN 700
: Screenwriting Project2024 Semester One (1243)
Considers the short film script with a focus on the practice and principles of dramatic screenwriting, including industry format and narrative structure. By developing a script for a 5-8 minute film in stages, students will practice creative writing, script development, and pitching while also learning skills related to production management, proposal writing, and preparing and scheduling a low-budget production.
Restriction: SCREEN 702, 705
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SCREEN 701
: Introduction to Directing2024 Semester One (1243)
Provides students with a practical overview of the drama and documentary production process from a director's point of view. Students are taken through pre-production, production and post-production on a series of group projects, as well as their own 2-minute short film. Emphasises the importance of directing style, character and story alongside acquiring practical skills. Students are encouraged to critique their own work as well as the work of their classmates.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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SOCCHFAM 734
: Issues in Child Welfare and Protection2024 Semester One (1243)
Explores the critical issues in child welfare and protection encountered by education, health and human services workers. The historical, social and conceptual basis for an understanding of child abuse and neglect is considered. Explores research-led strategies to address personal, professional, and societal responses to the needs of vulnerable children.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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SOCCLEAD 706
: Innovation, Design, Evaluation2024 Semester One (1243)
Evolving approaches to innovating social change and evaluation practice are examined. Topics include contemporary debates on, and approaches to, co-design, collaboration, ethical social innovation, evidence-informed programme design, evaluation models and impact measurement. Using experiential learning, groups of students will be guided through a social innovation design process in response to user needs, and develop robust evaluation proposals.
Restriction: EDUC 726, SOCCLEAD 701
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SOCIOL 100
: Issues and Themes in Sociology2024 Semester One (1243)
Introduction to sociology as a discipline and a review of some of its internal debates. Topics include: social class, gender, globalisation, power, sexual identity and family. Draws on material from a range of societies.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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SOCIOL 105
: Cultural Studies and Society2024 Semester One (1243)
A cultural studies approach to social life focuses on the way we experience the world, taking account of what we see, what we hear, what we consume and how we communicate. Sociological theory will be explored through investigating different cultural forms including film, advertising, art, social media, sport, and video games.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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SOCIOL 200
: Sociological Theory2024 Semester One (1243)
Aims to map the social condition through theorists who also emphasise the need to transform it. Focuses on material existence, how it is interpreted through language and the investment of people in oppressive regimes, ideologies and discourses. Develops critical perspectives on the intersections of class, race, gender and sexuality.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in Sociology or 15 points at Stage I in Sociology with a minimum B+ pass
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SOCIOL 207
: Sociology of Gender and Families2024 Semester One (1243)
Focuses on the interrelationship between gender, sexuality and families in New Zealand and other Western societies. Through an examination of important moments in the life course of families – for example, partnering and parenting – it explores changes and continuities in the gendered norms, identities, practices and patterns that characterise contemporary family life.
Prerequisite: 30 points in Sociology or Gender Studies or 60 points passed
Restriction: SOCIOL 214, SOCIOL 222
Restriction: SOCIOL 214, SOCIOL 222
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SOCIOL 208
: Economy and Society2024 Semester One (1243)
Examines the changing relations between work and life outside of paid employment. Particular attention is paid to new forms of expropriation that profit from claiming private ownership of collective effort, ideas and cultural forms. These developments are crucial to understanding and contesting social inequality, globalisation, organisational restructuring and new technologies. Course material is drawn from international literatures and is grounded in an understanding of contemporary New Zealand.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage I in Employment Relations and Organisational Studies or Sociology or 15 points at Stage I in Sociology with a B+ or higher, or 30 points in International Relations and Business
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SOCIOL 300
: Feminist, Anti-Colonial and Post-Capitalist Technofutures2024 Semester One (1243)
Introduces students to theoretical approaches for understanding the social, material and power (political) dimensions of science and technology, as well as practical approaches for imagining and enacting more ethical, equitable, collaborative and anti-colonial technofutures. Topics studied include: science, technology and social theory; feminist, anti-colonial and post-capitalist approaches to science and technology; translating knowledge to engage public audiences.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Sociology, or COMMS 103 and 208
Restriction: SOCIOL 311
Restriction: SOCIOL 311
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SOCIOL 309
: Migration, Borders and Displacement2024 Semester One (1243)
Examines the relationship between national borders and international migration alongside an exploration of critical theories of the drivers, management and experience of displacement. Particular attention is paid to representations of migration, political and policy responses to migration, and patterns of involuntary, labour, lifestyle and educational migration.
Prerequisite: 30 points at Stage II in Global Politics and Human Rights or Sociology
Restriction: SOCIOL 306
Restriction: SOCIOL 306
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SOCIOL 706
: Special Topic: The Sociology of Disasters2024 Semester One (1243)
Disasters are increasing in scale, cost, frequency and severity. This course examines their causes and consequences and considers their future avoidance. In doing so it draws on social theory, Science and Technology Studies, and broad literatures on disaster. Topics include: the risk society thesis, the social patterning of disasters, and the political economy of disasters (disaster capitalism).
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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SOCIOL 710
: Special Topic: Environmental Justice and Environmental Crimes2024 Semester One (1243)
An advanced study of sociological and green criminology approaches to environmental harms that illuminates the complex social processes that creates them. This course critically analyses phenomenon that harms humans, non-humans and the environment. Examines the complex political, cultural, economic factors, and social factors contributing to them, as well as the social responses to address these problems.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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SOCIOL 718
: Research Projects: Design and Practice2024 Semester One (1243)
Explores some of the major principles of research design and practice before discussing particular methods of research. Students will work through problem definition, literature review, and research design. Both ‘empirical’ and ‘theoretical’ projects will be encouraged.
Restriction: SOCIOL 731, SOCSCRES 701
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SOCWORK 100A
: Ko Wai Au, Ko Wai Koe, Ko Wai Tātou?2024 Semester One (1243)
Introduces historical and socio-political contexts, beginning with te ao Māori, tikanga Māori, and te Tiriti o Waitangi, that underpin analysis of a range of identities, diversities, aspirations, oppressions and cultures in contemporary Aotearoa. Fosters understanding of how one’s cultural location and intersectional experiences can shape values and attitudes, including bias and prejudice, and the impact of 'self' on professional practice.
Restriction: EDPROFM 100, SOCWORK 113
To complete this course students must enrol in SOCWORK 100 A and B, or SOCWORK 100
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SOCWORK 101A
: Social Work and Social Justice2024 Semester One (1243)
The Treaty of Waitangi underpins social work practice in Aotearoa. Social justice and human rights are critically considered alongside an examination of historical and contextual contributors to the development of social work. An introduction to the profession and practice of social work is provided. Relationship building and communication skills are taught within a growing awareness of self.
Restriction: SOCWORK 111, 112, 115
To complete this course students must enrol in SOCWORK 101 A and B, or SOCWORK 101
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SOCWORK 102A
: He Tangata: People in Context2024 Semester One (1243)
Te ao Māori, ecological systems, psychological and lifespan development theories and frameworks are conceptual pillars for introducing human behaviour and experiences across the life course and the complex relationships between individuals and their social environments. Multi-dimensional aspects of human experience, identity and change are explored from a culturally conscientious, equity-oriented perspective.
Restriction: HUMSERV 101, 102
To complete this course students must enrol in SOCWORK 102 A and B, or SOCWORK 102
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SOCWORK 200A
: Ngā Pou for Mana-enhancing Practice2024 Semester One (1243)
Engages students in developing a framework for social work practice that supports individual, whānau and community aspirations to ora/wellbeing and enhances individual and collective mana. Focusing centrally on whānau-family-aiga systems, and emphasising critical intersectional analyses of the inequitable impact of socio-structural factors on whānau and communities, it builds core social work knowledge and skills applicable across diverse settings and groups.
Prerequisite: SOCWORK 101 and 102, or 111 and 115, or 181 or 182
Restriction: SOCCHFAM 215, SOCHLTH 231 To complete this course students must enrol in SOCWORK 200 A and B, or SOCWORK 200
Restriction: SOCCHFAM 215, SOCHLTH 231 To complete this course students must enrol in SOCWORK 200 A and B, or SOCWORK 200
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SOCWORK 201A
: Culturally Responsive Practice2024 Semester One (1243)
An introduction to the study of the personal and professional impact of te Tiriti o Waitangi in social work practice and social workers’ obligations to bicultural and, more broadly, culturally responsive practice with Māori, Pasifika and other diverse communities. Development of critical understandings of cultural responsiveness and opportunities for experiential learning in community settings.
Prerequisite: SOCWORK 100 and 101, or 45 points from EDPROFM 100, SOCWORK 112, 113, 180
Restriction: SOCWORK 212 To complete this course students must enrol in SOCWORK 201 A and B, or SOCWORK 201
Restriction: SOCWORK 212 To complete this course students must enrol in SOCWORK 201 A and B, or SOCWORK 201
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SOCWORK 202A
: Law, Policy and Social Action2024 Semester One (1243)
A critical exploration of the legislative and policy contexts for social work practice in Aotearoa, including the contradictions inherent between te Tiriti o Waitangi and settler capitalism, and tino rangatiratanga and the colonial doctrine of sovereignty. Exploration of social work ethics, and the challenging processes involved in working for change.
Prerequisite: SOCWORK 101 or 112
Restriction: SOCWORK 211, 216 To complete this course students must enrol in SOCWORK 202 A and B, or SOCWORK 202
Restriction: SOCWORK 211, 216 To complete this course students must enrol in SOCWORK 202 A and B, or SOCWORK 202
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SOCWORK 221A
: Social Work Theories and Skills2024 Semester One (1243)
An exploration of theories, models and skills for bicultural social work practice with individuals and whānau in a range of settings and cultural contexts. Informed by the ANZASW Code of Ethics and the SWRB Core Competence Standards, content includes critical engagement with current literature and research guiding assessment and intervention, active skill building, and exploration of personal and professional values.
Prerequisite: SOCWORK 100-102, or 111, 112 and 115
Restriction: SOCWORK 213, 214 To complete this course students must enrol in SOCWORK 221 A and B, or SOCWORK 221
Restriction: SOCWORK 213, 214 To complete this course students must enrol in SOCWORK 221 A and B, or SOCWORK 221
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SOCWORK 311
: Social Work Process and Practice2024 Semester One (1243)
Students are required to integrate a defined range of approaches to practice comprising work with individuals, families and small groups. Knowledge, skills, values and ethics associated with direct practice will be extended. Students will apply the social work process of reflection and use of self in preparation for becoming a mindfully reflexive practitioner.
Prerequisite: SOCWORK 214 or 221 or 280
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SOCWORK 315
: Organisations and Management2024 Semester One (1243)
Examines the variety of organisational frameworks from which human services are practised and the impact of these contexts on professional identity and practice in the workplace. Contemporary management approaches will be examined with reference to theory and roles and responsibilities assumed by human service managers in a complex and dynamic environment.
Prerequisite: SOCWORK 202 or 30 points from SOCWORK 211, 216, 283
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SOCWORK 317
: Supervised Field Practice and Professional Development 12024 Semester One (1243)
A practicum course which focuses on developing a professional identity and a philosophy of practice that is shaped by integrating personal experience and professional knowledge, values and skills gained from the first two years of the Bachelor of Social Work programme. A significant part of this course includes a period of 12 weeks supervised agency-based practical experience for which the student will be prepared through developing individual learning goals.
Prerequisite: EDUCSW199, and SOCWORK 200-202, or 212, 213 and 214
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SOCWORK 411
: Social Work Interventions for Best Practice2024 Semester One (1243)
An in-depth examination of contemporary issues in social work practice, focusing on evidence-based practice and intervention skills that have direct application to complex practice situations.
Prerequisite: SOCWORK 311, 317
Restriction: SOCWORK 711, 712
Restriction: SOCWORK 711, 712