100-level

CINE102
The Backpacker's Guide to World Cinema
Description
This course identifies the formal, stylistic and thematic concerns that are shared, despite their apparent diversity, by a cross section of contemporary films. Students will analyse a selection of notable films from around the world that revise, resist or reject the standard practices or themes of mainstream cinema.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
Restrictions
TAFS102
ARTH103
'Picasso who?' Introducing Modern Art
Description
What makes modern art modern? This course covers all you've always wanted to know about modern art and never dared asking. This course offers a general introduction to modern art from 1850 to 1945. It examines key art movements from Impressionism to Surrealism in their cultural and social contexts while introducing you to art historical methodologies and key art theories.
Occurrences
Summer Nov 2023 (Distance)
Points
15 points
SOCI112
Global Society
Description
Combining sociological theory and concepts with arguments and examples drawn from around the globe, this course conveys the scope and value of sociology for understanding the complex and fast-changing world in which we live.
Occurrences
Semester Two 2024
Points
15 points
CLAS120
People, Places and Histories of the Graeco-Roman World
Description
In this course we will survey events in antiquity from Homer through to the Roman Emperor Constantine. On the way we will explore the world of fifth century Athens, gaining an insight into the society that established democracy and move on to appreciate Alexander's campaigns and the formation of the Hellenistic kingdoms after his death. We will also turn to the west of the Mediterranean Sea and investigate the development of Rome from a small town to the capital of a large Empire, its constitutional transformations and the social impact of those changes on people's sense of place and identity.
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Semester One 2024 (Distance)
Points
15 points
Restrictions
CLAS111; CLAS112; CLAS113
HIST133
Medieval Europe: from Rome to the Black Death
Description
A survey course covering a range of themes in Western European history including social and economic developments, government, religion and warfare (c. 300 - 1400).
Occurrences
Semester One 2024
Points
15 points
Restrictions
HIST125, HIST130

Not Offered Courses in 2024

100-level

ENGL103
The Outsider
Description
However you think about the outsider - as artist, as outlaw or anarchist, as hero or scapegoat, as criminal or critic - it is clear that this figure is a constant in the study of literature. In this course we shall investigate the way the figure of the outsider has been represented in the traditions of American and New Zealand literature. Furthermore, we will bring to bear on this figure three key critical contexts: romanticism, modernism and post-colonialism.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2018 , 2020 , 2021 , 2022 , 2023
For further information see ENGL103 course details
Points
15 points
HIST136
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Description
This course explores the nature of revolutions and their role in shaping the modern world. After looking at various definitions of the term 'revolution', and a range of historical approaches to the study of revolutions, the course looks in turn at a series of case studies such as the American, French and Russian revolutions, and their causes, course and consequences.
Occurrences
Not offered 2024, offered in 2019 , 2020 , 2021 , 2022 , 2023
For further information see HIST136 course details
Points
15 points