Internship

What can you do with your major? With your degree? The purpose of the internship course is to explore both the ideological and practical assumptions guiding this question. The course is designed to be a critical, theoretical and "real-world" examination of the practices and ideologies inherent in both community and business organisations. You will apply the analytical skills acquired through your major, and through class seminars and readings, to a project designed by a local company or community group. Please check out the website for further information and specific project descriptions: www.arts.canterbury.ac.nz/internships

30 points

150 points, special application and interview, and permission of the Internship Director.

ARTS395

Te Ngao Matariki 1

An advanced level course in Te Reo Maori for those who have completed TREO212. The aim of the course is to increase the depth of knowledge and skill in delivery of the students’ Maori language so that they will have a clearer understanding of the oral and written traditions of Maori society and the working language of today’s Maori world and be able to converse more effectively in Maori. Students will be encouraged to speak and write about their thoughts on a range of topics. This course continues the study of the structure of the language and extends speaking skills. The main language of instruction is the Maori language.

30 points

TREO212 or TREO260

TREO360

Takahi: Colonisation

Colonisation has had a significant effect on the shaping of contemporary New Zealand society. This course will cover key events in the colonisation throughout New Zealand’s brief colonial history. This course utilises different theories of colonisation to critically examine the continued subjugation of Indigenous Peoples in Aotearoa and around the world. Special attention will also be paid to breaking down the power relationships that have emerged between coloniser and colonised.

30 points

Any 30 points at 200 level from CULT, HIST, MAOR, or TREO, or any 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA.

RELS322, HIST366, CULT302

In search of Nowhere: the international Arts and Crafts Movement

A detailed introduction to the Arts and Crafts Movement, one of the most interdisciplinary, international, and influential artistic phenomena in history.

30 points

Any 30 points at 200 level from ARTH, or any 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA or from the BFA.

Contemporary Art and the Material Turn

This course will examine the implication of the ‘material turn’ across a range of contemporary art practices, focusing in particular on the shift from modernist notions of specificity to the radical fracturing and opening up of practice that has taken place since the 1970s.

30 points

Any 30 points at 200 level from ARTH, or any 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA or from the BFA.

Kiwi Culture

This course explores the invention of kiwi culture from first Maori contact with Europeans to Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings films. Key questions asked are: How has national identity formed? What kiwi traditions have emerged? Who is a New Zealander and who is excluded from dominant concepts of nation? What aspects of culture are indigenous and how much is copied from overseas? Topics under examination include key defining moments, peacekeeping, sport and leisure, food, beauty, fashion, arts and crafts, literature and music, kiwi icons, kiwiana, overseas fame, sexuality and morality, environmentalism, national disasters, immigration and multiculturalism.

30 points

Any 30 points at 200 level from HIST, or any 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA.

HIST243

Internship

What can you do with your major? With your degree? The purpose of the internship course is to explore both the ideological and practical assumptions guiding this question. The course is designed to be a critical, theoretical and "real-world" examination of the practices and ideologies inherent in both community and business organisations. You will apply the analytical skills acquired through your major, and through class seminars and readings, to a project designed by a local company or community group. Please check out the website for further information and specific project descriptions: www.arts.canterbury.ac.nz/internships

30 points

150 points, special application and interview, and permission of the Internship Director.

ARTS395

Te Ngao Matariki 2

An advanced level course in Te Reo Maori for those who have completed TREO311. The aim of the course is to increase the depth of knowledge and skill in delivery of the students’ Maori language so that they will have a clearer understanding of the oral and written traditions of Maori society and the working language of today’s Maori world and be able to converse more effectively in Maori. Students will be encouraged to speak and write about their thoughts on a range of topics. This course continues the study of the structure of the language and extends speaking skills. The main language of instruction is the Maori language.

30 points

TREO311

TREO360

Contested Heritage: Politics, Power and Practice

This course provides students with a hands-on introduction to the study of heritage. We explore ways we might understand and interpret contemporary heritage practices in a range of contexts, including post-earthquake Christchurch.

30 points

Any 30 points at 200 level from HIST, or any 60 points at 200 level from the Schedule V of the BA.

SOCI388, ANTH388

Internship

What can you do with your major? With your degree? The purpose of the internship course is to explore both the ideological and practical assumptions guiding this question. The course is designed to be a critical, theoretical and "real-world" examination of the practices and ideologies inherent in both community and business organisations. You will apply the analytical skills acquired through your major, and through class seminars and readings, to a project designed by a local company or community group. Please check out the website for further information and specific project descriptions: www.arts.canterbury.ac.nz/internships

30 points

150 points, special application and interview, and permission of the Internship Director.

ARTS395

Internship

What can you do with your major? With your degree? The purpose of the internship course is to explore both the ideological and practical assumptions guiding this question. The course is designed to be a critical, theoretical and "real-world" examination of the practices and ideologies inherent in both community and business organisations. You will apply the analytical skills acquired through your major, and through class seminars and readings, to a project designed by a local company or community group. Please check out the website for further information and specific project descriptions: www.arts.canterbury.ac.nz/internships

30 points

150 points, special application and interview, and permission of the Internship Director.

ARTS395