Faculty of Arts postgraduate courses

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Currently displaying 437 courses.

Anthropology

ANTHRO 727	Ethnographies of Music-Making
ANTHRO 728	Topic in Ethnomusicology
ANTHRO 729	Special Studies in Anthropology
ANTHRO 736	Special Studies in Anthropology
ANTHRO 747	Doing Biocultural Research
ANTHRO 748	Human Osteology
ANTHRO 756	Anthropology and Intellectual Property
ANTHRO 759	Kaitiakitanga: Protecting our Planet
ANTHRO 760	Anthropological Theory and the Contemporary World
ANTHRO 762	Theorising Human Evolution
ANTHRO 763	Contemporary Bio-Anthropology
ANTHRO 766	Landscape Archaeology
ANTHRO 777	Theory in Archaeology
ANTHRO 780	Research Project
ANTHRO 782	Research Project
ANTHRO 790	Dissertation in Anthropology
ANTHRO 796	Thesis in Anthropology
ANTHRO 797	Research Portfolio

Applied Linguistics

Art History

ARTHIST 701	Art for the City and the Court
ARTHIST 725	Concepts in Contemporary Art
ARTHIST 734	Art Writing and Curatorial Practice
ARTHIST 790	Research Project
ARTHIST 791	Dissertation
ARTHIST 792	Dissertation
ARTHIST 793	Research Essay
ARTHIST 794	Research Project
MUSEUMS 702	Inside the Museum

Asian Studies

ASIAN 702	Approaches to Research in Asian Studies
ASIAN 712	Dissertation on Translation
ASIAN 791	Dissertation
ASIAN 793	Thesis
HISTORY 737	Rethinking History
JAPANESE 702	Topics in Japanese Culture and Society
JAPANESE 706	Advanced Japanese Language Acquisition 1
JAPANESE 707	Advanced Japanese Language Acquisition 2

Chinese

ASIAN 702	Approaches to Research in Asian Studies
CHINESE 777	Chinese Study Abroad I
CHINESE 778	Chinese Study Abroad II
CHINESE 791	Dissertation
CHINESE 792	Dissertation

Classical Studies and Ancient History

Communication

Comparative Literature

COMPLIT 777	Study Abroad
COMPLIT 778	Study Abroad
COMPLIT 790	Dissertation
COMPLIT 792	Dissertation
COMPLIT 793	Thesis

Creative Writing

CREWRIT 797

Creative Writing

Criminology

Conflict and Terrorism Studies

Development Studies

Drama

English

European Studies

ENGLISH 785	Directed Study
HISTORY 706	Topics in European Cultural History
HISTORY 736	Medieval Women, c.1100-1500
PHIL 759	European Continental Philosophy 3

French

FRENCH 705	Advanced Language
FRENCH 777	Study Abroad
FRENCH 778	Study Abroad
FRENCH 790	Research Project
FRENCH 791	Dissertation
FRENCH 792	Dissertation
FRENCH 793	Thesis
FRENCH 796	Thesis
FRENCH 797	Research Portfolio

Media, Film and Television (FTVMS)

Gender Studies

German

Greek

ANCIENT 719	Directed Study in Ancient Culture
ANCIENT 749	Themes and Issues in Ancient Culture
ANCIENT 750	Sources and Approaches for the Ancient World
ANCIENT 756	Research Essays in Ancient Culture
GREEK 709	Directed Study
GREEK 792	Dissertation

History

Indigenous Studies

International Relations & Human Rights

DEVELOP 710	Development Policies and Institutions
POLITICS 740	Revolutions, Ideas and Media
POLITICS 770	Ethnic Conflict and Civil War
POLITICS 776	Media & Politics in an Age of Globalisation
POLITICS 789	Dissertation in International Relations and Human Rights

Italian

ITALIAN 777	Study Abroad
ITALIAN 778	Study Abroad
ITALIAN 779	Study Abroad – Internship
ITALIAN 791	Dissertation

Japanese

ASIAN 702	Approaches to Research in Asian Studies
JAPANESE 702	Topics in Japanese Culture and Society
JAPANESE 706	Advanced Japanese Language Acquisition 1
JAPANESE 707	Advanced Japanese Language Acquisition 2
JAPANESE 791	Dissertation

Language Teaching & Learning

Latin

ANCIENT 719	Directed Study in Ancient Culture
ANCIENT 749	Themes and Issues in Ancient Culture
ANCIENT 750	Sources and Approaches for the Ancient World
ANCIENT 756	Research Essays in Ancient Culture
LATIN 709	Directed Study
LATIN 714	Translation Portfolio: Latin to English
LATIN 792	Dissertation
LATIN 797	Research Portfolio

Linguistics

LINGUIST 705	Field Methods: Phonetics and Phonology
LINGUIST 706	Field Methods: Morphosyntax
LINGUIST 709	Linguistic Research
LINGUIST 721	Formal Syntax
LINGUIST 722	Phonology
LINGUIST 736	Issues in Advanced Morphology
LINGUIST 791	Dissertation

Logic & Computation

LINGUIST 721	Formal Syntax
LOGICOMP 701	Directed Studies
LOGICOMP 703	Directed Study
LOGICOMP 782	Research Project
LOGICOMP 796	Thesis
PHIL 736	Logic 1

Māori Studies

INDIGEN 711	Indigenous Environmental Politics
INDIGEN 712	Indigenous Psychologies
MĀORI 732	Rangatiratanga
MĀORI 750	Kaupapa Motuhake: Special Study in Māori Studies
MĀORI 785	Dissertation
MĀORI 793	Dissertation

Media and Screen Studies

Museums & Cultural Heritage

Pacific Studies

ENGLISH 700	Pacific Poetry
INDIGEN 711	Indigenous Environmental Politics
INDIGEN 712	Indigenous Psychologies
PACIFIC 700	The Pacific: Interdisciplinary Studies
PACIFIC 712	Pacific Indigenous Thought
PACIFIC 714	Pacific Research Methodologies and Practices
PACIFIC 792	Dissertation
PACIFIC 793	Dissertation

Philosophy

Public Policy

CRIM 703	Contemporary Criminology
POLICY 701	Policy Analysis and Evaluation
POLICY 702	Economics of Policy
POLICY 737	Applied Policy Project
POLICY 740	Policy Design, Analysis and Implementation
POLICY 741	Government and Policy: New Zealand Compared
POLICY 742	Statistics and Data Analysis for Policy
POLICY 743	Economics, Budgets and Bureaucrats
POLICY 744	Policy in Practice
POLICY 790	Research Project
POLICY 792	Dissertation
POLICY 793	Dissertation
POLICY 794	Thesis
POLITICS 701	Research Design in Empirical Political Inquiry
POLITICS 741	Ethics and Health Policy
POLITICS 756	New Zealand Government
POLITICS 757	Comparative Public Policy
POLITICS 774	Politics-Policy Internship
POLITICS 775	Special Topic
SOCIOL 703	Sociology of Mental Health
SOCIOL 728	Family, Gender and the State

Politics and International Relations

POLICY 701	Policy Analysis and Evaluation
POLICY 702	Economics of Policy
POLICY 742	Statistics and Data Analysis for Policy
POLITICS 701	Research Design in Empirical Political Inquiry
POLITICS 709	Political Extremism
POLITICS 710	Security Development Nexus
POLITICS 711	Bodies in/at War
POLITICS 737	Directed Research
POLITICS 740	Revolutions, Ideas and Media
POLITICS 741	Ethics and Health Policy
POLITICS 756	New Zealand Government
POLITICS 757	Comparative Public Policy
POLITICS 770	Ethnic Conflict and Civil War
POLITICS 774	Politics-Policy Internship
POLITICS 775	Special Topic
POLITICS 776	Media & Politics in an Age of Globalisation
POLITICS 777	Politics of Terrorism and Counterterrorism
POLITICS 780	Research Project
POLITICS 793	Dissertation

Screen Production

Sociology

Spanish

SPANISH 728	Research Essays
SPANISH 777	Study Abroad
SPANISH 778	Study Abroad
SPANISH 782	Research Project
SPANISH 791	Dissertation

Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages

Theology

THEOLOGY 780	Dissertation
THEOLOGY 781	Research Essay
THEOLOGY 782	Research Essay
THEOLOGY 796	Thesis

Translation Studies

LANGTCHG 701	Multilingual Lives
LANGTCHG 708	Special Topic: Experimental approaches to SLA
LANGTCHG 710	Task-based Language Teaching
LANGTCHG 734	Identity in Language Teaching and Learning
LANGTCHG 751	Corpus Studies in Applied Linguistics
LANGTCHG 752	Computer Assisted Language Learning
LANGTCHG 754	English for Specific Purposes
LANGTCHG 757	Conducting Research in Applied Language Studies
LANGTCHG 761	Sociolinguistics
LANGTCHG 762	Second Language Acquisition
LANGTCHG 763	Discourse Analysis
LANGTCHG 793	Dissertation
LINGUIST 721	Formal Syntax
LINGUIST 722	Phonology

ANCIENT 719	Directed Study in Ancient Culture
ANCIENT 727	Directed Study in Ancient Culture
ANCIENT 728	Directed Study in Ancient Culture
ANCIENT 729	Egyptian Language (Higher)
ANCIENT 739	Greek Language (Higher)
ANCIENT 741	Latin Language (Higher)
ANCIENT 743	Latin Language (Higher II)
ANCIENT 745	Latin Language (Higher III)
ANCIENT 749	Themes and Issues in Ancient Culture
ANCIENT 750	Sources and Approaches for the Ancient World
ANCIENT 756	Research Essays in Ancient Culture
ANCIENT 792	Dissertation
ANCIENT 796	Thesis
ANCIENT 797	Research Portfolio

MEDIA 713	Media, Sound and Music
MEDIA 715	Visualising Difference
MEDIA 726	Directed Study
MEDIA 729	Film Evil
MEDIA 741	Time and the Moving Image
MEDIA 742	Directed Study
MEDIA 743	Chinese Film Genres
MEDIA 781	Research Project
MEDIA 781	Research Project
MEDIA 793	Dissertation
MEDIA 796	Thesis
MEDIA 797	Research Portfolio
SCREEN 700	Screenwriting Project

CRIM 700	Research in Criminology
CRIM 702	Advanced Issues in Penology
CRIM 703	Contemporary Criminology
CRIM 704	State Crime
CRIM 705	Special Topic: Quantitative Criminology
CRIM 708	Directed Study
CRIM 710	Cybercrime
CRIM 711	Gender, Crime and Social Control
CRIM 780	Research Project
CRIM 793	Dissertation
SOCIOL 703	Sociology of Mental Health

DEVELOP 703	Independent Research
DEVELOP 705	Contemporary Issues in Gender and Development
DEVELOP 710	Development Policies and Institutions
DEVELOP 712	Research Methods in Development
DEVELOP 715	Independent Research
DEVELOP 716	Global Health and Development
DEVELOP 780	Research Project
DEVELOP 791	Dissertation
DEVELOP 793	Portfolio in Research
DEVELOP 794	Thesis
INDIGEN 711	Indigenous Environmental Politics
INDIGEN 712	Indigenous Psychologies
MĀORI 732	Rangatiratanga
PACIFIC 700	The Pacific: Interdisciplinary Studies
POLITICS 710	Security Development Nexus
SOCIOL 718	Research Projects: Design and Practice
SOCIOL 735	Current Debates in Gender and Sexuality

DRAMA 708	Drama and the Mind
DRAMA 709	Studio
DRAMA 716	Directed Study in Playwriting
DRAMA 717	Long Play
DRAMA 718	Playwriting
DRAMA 720	Advanced Playwriting
DRAMA 721	Directed Study in Drama 1
DRAMA 722	Directed Study in Drama 2
DRAMA 730	Studio/Project in Practical Drama
DRAMA 783	Dissertation
DRAMA 790	Dissertation in Drama
DRAMA 793	Thesis
DRAMA 795	Thesis
ENGLISH 709	Theatre on Screen
ENGLISH 781	Research Project

HISTORY 700	Settlers and Empire
HISTORY 706	Topics in European Cultural History
HISTORY 711	Texts and Contexts
HISTORY 736	Medieval Women, c.1100-1500
HISTORY 737	Rethinking History
HISTORY 760	Special Study
HISTORY 761	Special Study
HISTORY 780	Research Project
HISTORY 793	Dissertation
HISTORY 797	Research Portfolio

DEVELOP 710	Development Policies and Institutions
INDIGEN 700	Indigenous Theories
INDIGEN 710	Indigenous Methodologies
INDIGEN 711	Indigenous Environmental Politics
INDIGEN 712	Indigenous Psychologies
INDIGEN 792	Dissertation
MĀORI 732	Rangatiratanga
MUSEUMS 702	Inside the Museum
PACIFIC 700	The Pacific: Interdisciplinary Studies
PACIFIC 712	Pacific Indigenous Thought

PHIL 720	Special Studies
PHIL 727	Ethics 2
PHIL 729	Political Philosophy 2
PHIL 736	Logic 1
PHIL 749	Philosophy of Science 1
PHIL 753	Ancient/Medieval Philosophy 2
PHIL 759	European Continental Philosophy 3
PHIL 768	Special Studies
PHIL 769	Special Studies
PHIL 770	Special Studies: Honours
PHIL 771	Special Studies: Honours
PHIL 772	Special Studies: Honours
PHIL 773	Special Studies: Honours
PHIL 774	Special Studies: Masters
PHIL 775	Special Studies: Masters
PHIL 776	Special Studies: Masters
PHIL 777	Special Studies: Masters
PHIL 782	Dissertation

SOCIOL 703	Sociology of Mental Health
SOCIOL 706	The Sociology of Disasters
SOCIOL 711	Special Topic
SOCIOL 718	Research Projects: Design and Practice
SOCIOL 728	Family, Gender and the State
SOCIOL 735	Current Debates in Gender and Sexuality
SOCIOL 738	Directed Study
SOCIOL 739	Directed Study
SOCIOL 790	Research Project
SOCIOL 794	Dissertation