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SOCWORK 413
: The Social Work Discourse2024 Semester One (1243)
The application of sociological analysis to consideration of the role and characteristics of social work practice. An exploration of the professional discourse is framed and how major social trends impact on that discourse in practice and the public domain.
Restriction: SOCWORK 713
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SOCWORK 414
: Research and Evaluation in Social Practice2024 Semester One (1243)
An exploration of relevant social work research literature and approaches to data analysis, and the undertaking of a research project. Develops confidence and skills in the application of practice research principles, problem definition, critical review of relevant literature and analysis of existing qualitative data to inform professional practice in social work and social services.
Prerequisite: SOCWORK 312
Restriction: SOCWORK 714, 734, 780
Restriction: SOCWORK 714, 734, 780
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SOCWORK 426
: Practice with Communities2024 Semester One (1243)
An introduction to change-oriented social work practice with communities, with particular emphasis on diverse and indigenous communities and critical analysis of current and historical factors shaping community well-being. Building their own theories of change, students learn models and skills for integrating partnerships with communities into their practice, including engagement, capacity building, community development, organising, activism, and policy advocacy.
Prerequisite: Any 60 points passed at Stage III
Restriction: SOCWORK 356, 726
Restriction: SOCWORK 356, 726
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SOCWORK 711
: Social Work Interventions for Best Practice2024 Semester One (1243)
An in-depth examination of contemporary developments in social work practice, with an emphasis on the employment of evidence-informed interventions that have direct application to complex practice situations.
Prerequisite: SOCWORK 311, 317
Restriction: SOCWORK 411, 712
Restriction: SOCWORK 411, 712
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SOCWORK 712
: Social Work in Statutory Settings2024 Semester One (1243)
An advanced examination of fields of practice in statutory social work. Will include areas such as family violence, child welfare, disability, health, mental health, and working with vulnerable adults. A critical investigation of context, relationships, power, ethics, interventions and best practice in these settings will be undertaken.
Prerequisite: SOCWORK 721, 722, 723, 724 and 725
Restriction: SOCWORK 411, 711
Restriction: SOCWORK 411, 711
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SOCWORK 713
: The Social Work Discourse2024 Semester One (1243)
A critical analysis of contemporary social work practice, utilising sociological perspectives and contemporary social theory. An in-depth exploration of how the professional discourse of social work is framed and how major social trends impact on that discourse in practice and the public domain.
Restriction: SOCWORK 413
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SOCWORK 721A
: Theories and Skills in Social Work Practice2024 Semester One (1243)
An in-depth examination of theoretical perspectives, skills and approaches in social work practice related to interpersonal work with individuals, families and groups living through challenging situations. Content will include a critical engagement with contemporary literature and the examination of evidence-informed interventions and critically reflective strategies that help guide professional practice in collaborative and safe environments.
To complete this course students must enrol in SOCWORK 721 A and B
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SOCWORK 722
: Developing Social Work Professional Identity2024 Semester One (1243)
Examines contemporary and historical social work cultural identity, language and discourse as a global profession. Socialisation to the profession and its values is explored through a defined range of practice fields, premised on a human rights and social justice framework. Systemic models of practice are reviewed. Inter-professional practice, professional ethics, anti-oppressive and bicultural practice and registration are analysed in the New Zealand setting.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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SOCWORK 723
: Social Work in the New Zealand Context2024 Semester One (1243)
Examines the history, policy, law, social patterns, trends and issues that contribute to the working environment for bicultural social work practice in Aotearoa New Zealand. Content will encourage an understanding of the organisational, statutory and community context of social services, professional practice and the reflective social worker operating in settings that can be examined, challenged and changed.
No pre-requisites or restrictions
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SOCWORK 726
: Practice with Communities2024 Semester One (1243)
An advanced consideration of change-oriented social work practice with communities, with particular emphasis on diverse and indigenous communities and critical analysis of current and historical factors shaping community well-being. Building their own theories of change, students learn models and skills for integrating partnerships with communities into their practice, including engagement, capacity building, community development, organising, activism, research and policy advocacy.
Prerequisite: 60 points passed at Stage III
Restriction: SOCWORK 356, 426
Restriction: SOCWORK 356, 426
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SOCWORK 734A
: Professional Social Work Research in Practice2024 Semester One (1243)
An independent, applied research-based project relating to an aspect of social work practice and undertaken in a practice context. Students will gather and critically analyse authentic data using appropriate research strategies and ethical practice principles, and produce a substantial research report.
Prerequisite: SOCWORK 721-725
Restriction: SOCWORK 414, 714 To complete this course students must enrol in SOCWORK 734 A and B
Restriction: SOCWORK 414, 714 To complete this course students must enrol in SOCWORK 734 A and B
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SOFTENG 281
: Object-Oriented Programming2024 Semester One (1243)
Computer programming using objects as the mechanism for modularity, abstraction, and code reuse. Review of control structures for conditionals and iteration. Instance variables, methods, and encapsulation. Interfaces, inheritance, polymorphism, and abstract classes. Exception handling. Introduction to basic data structures and basic algorithms including sorting and searching.
Prerequisite: COMPSCI 101 or ENGGEN 131
Restriction: COMPSCI 230, COMPSYS 202, MECHENG 270, SOFTENG 251
Restriction: COMPSCI 230, COMPSYS 202, MECHENG 270, SOFTENG 251
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SOFTENG 282
: Software Engineering Theory2024 Semester One (1243)
Theoretical foundations of software engineering, including sets, formal languages, operations on languages, deterministic and nondeterministic automata, designing automata, determinisation, regular expressions, logic, induction, recursion, program correctness, computability, counting, elements of graph algorithms.
Prerequisite: COMPSCI 101 or ENGGEN 131
Restriction: COMPSCI 225, SOFTENG 211
Restriction: COMPSCI 225, SOFTENG 211
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SOFTENG 350
: Human Computer Interaction2024 Semester One (1243)
Human behaviour and humans’ expectations of computers. Computer interfaces and the interaction between humans and computers. The significance of the user interface, interface design and user centred design process in software development. Interface usability evaluation methodologies and practice. Includes an evaluation project, group design project, and implementation using current techniques and tools.
Prerequisite: SOFTENG 206 or 283
Restriction: COMPSCI 345, 370
Restriction: COMPSCI 345, 370
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SOFTENG 351
: Fundamentals of Database Systems2024 Semester One (1243)
Relational model, Relational algebra, Relational calculus, SQL, SQL and programming languages, Entity-Relationship model, Normalisation, Query processing, Query optimisation, Distributed databases, Transaction management, Concurrency control, Database recovery.
Prerequisite: SOFTENG 251 or 281
Restriction: COMPSCI 351
Restriction: COMPSCI 351
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SOFTENG 370
: Operating Systems2024 Semester One (1243)
History of operating systems. Multi-user systems. Scheduling. Concurrent processes, threads and synchronisation. Memory allocation and virtual memory. Managing files, disks and other peripherals. Security, protection and archiving. Engineering distributed systems; location, migration and replication transparency. Real-time programming and embedded systems.
Prerequisite: COMPSYS 201, and SOFTENG 251 or 281
Restriction: COMPSCI 340
Restriction: COMPSCI 340
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SOFTENG 700A
: Research Project2024 Semester One (1243)
Students are required to submit a report on project work carried out on a Software Engineering topic assigned by the Head of Department.
Prerequisite: SOFTENG 306
To complete this course students must enrol in SOFTENG 700 A and B
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SOFTENG 701
: Advanced Software Engineering Development Methods2024 Semester One (1243)
Advanced studies in methods and techniques for developing complex software systems including topics in software engineering environments, advanced software design, tool construction and software architectures. The core taught skills are extended by individual projects in which independent research is undertaken to address challenging software system problems.
Prerequisite: COMPSYS 302 or SOFTENG 306
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SOFTENG 750
: Software Development Methodologies2024 Semester One (1243)
Software lifecycle; software process models; examples of software processes; software process improvement; project management; tool support for software development; issues in software engineering.
Prerequisite: COMPSYS 302 or SOFTENG 306
Restriction: COMPSCI 732
Restriction: COMPSCI 732
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SOFTENG 751
: High Performance Computing2024 Semester One (1243)
Advanced parallel and high performance computing concepts and techniques such as parallel system architecture; parallelisation concepts, algorithms and methodology; parallel programming paradigms and technologies. Core concepts and skills are deepened by a hands-on research project in which a challenging parallel computing problem is analysed and solved.
Prerequisite: COMPSYS 302 or SOFTENG 306
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SOFTENG 754
: Advanced Software Requirements Engineering2024 Semester One (1243)
Advanced software engineering concepts focusing on techniques for requirements analysis and requirements engineering (RE) of software systems. Topics will include: requirements elicitation, analysis, specification, validation, verification, user experience design, test-driven development and continuous integration. Includes a substantial individual research project.
Prerequisite: COMPSYS 302 or SOFTENG 306
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SOFTENG 770
: Capstone Project2024 Semester One (1243)
Final year team exercise with students in multi-disciplinary roles, with focus on software engineering, integrating technical learning into realistic design outcomes. Comprehensive investigation of an open ended, complex, real or synthetic computer, electrical and software engineering problem with simulated professional design office constraints. Includes technical, economic and environmental impact components to complete a scheme assessment report.
Prerequisite: 75 points from Part III courses listed in the BE(Hons) Schedule for the Software Engineering specialisation
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SPANISH 104
: Beginners' Spanish 12024 Semester One (1243)
Provides a solid grounding in the basic grammar and vocabulary of Spanish for beginners or near beginners, emphasising communicative competence in the present tense. Develops speaking, listening, reading and writing skills, and prepares students at the A1 Level of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Restriction: SPANISH 107. May not be taken if a more advanced language acquisition course in this subject has previously been passed
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SPANISH 200
: Intermediate Spanish 12024 Semester One (1243)
Consolidates Spanish study by introducing the present subjunctive, enables students to move toward fluency in conversations on contemporary topics, and enriches daily activities with detail, subtlety and idioms used in the context of the rich cultures of the Hispanic world (Spain and Latin America). This course is equivalent to B1 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages.
Prerequisite: SPANISH 105 or 178
Restriction: SPANISH 277. May not be taken if a more advanced language acquisition course in this subject has previously been passed
Restriction: SPANISH 277. May not be taken if a more advanced language acquisition course in this subject has previously been passed
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SPANISH 319
: Advanced Spanish 12024 Semester One (1243)
Expands the language skills obtained in SPANISH 200-201 through extensive practice in advanced grammar, idiomatic expression, listening, speaking, reading and writing in relation to cultural and contemporary topics.
Prerequisite: SPANISH 201 or 278
Restriction: SPANISH 300, 377
Restriction: SPANISH 300, 377