General Education courses

Choose a creative course as part of your General Education requirement.

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Dance

DANCE 101G - Introduction to Dance and Creative Processes

This course aims to develop an understanding of our moving bodies through movement awareness, dance improvisation, choreography and creative and analytic writing. Students will undertake both theoretical and practical classes focusing on a range of practices that dancers and movement practitioners use to facilitate kinaesthetic awareness, experimentation, communication and choreography. Students will explore somatic theory and practice, improvisation scores, choreography and dance analysis.

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  • Semester availability: Summer School, Semester One and Semester Two
  • BDanceSt students cannot take this General Education course

Design

DESIGN 102G - Design for Sustainable Futures

New opportunities are continually emerging in the field of design. This course introduces design as strategy, demonstrating how contemporary design practices have evolved, responded to, and influenced change. By developing a design project that responds to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, students will learn how design thinking complements current practice and expands career prospects.

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  • Semester availability: Semester One and Semester Two
  • BDes and BDes conjoint students cannot take this General Education course

Fine Arts

FINEARTS 109G - Introduction to Photographic Practice

Introduces the methods, concepts and contemporary contexts of photographic practice alongside the development of a photographic portfolio. Students will use their own camera, (this can include cell phone cameras) to develop a portfolio of photographic work and explore the ways in which contemporary arts and cultural practices in Aotearoa enable a critical reflection on the production of images.

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  • Semester availability: Semester One and Two
  • BFA and BFA conjoint students cannot take this General Education course

Music

MUS 144G - Turning-Points in Western Music

This course introduces the history and literatures of Western music from medieval times to the late 20th-century. You will study, discuss, and write about the people and the factors (artistic, intellectual, social, technical) that were and are Western music’s agents of change. No previous knowledge of music is assumed.

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  • Semester availability: Semester One
  • BMus and BMus conjoint students cannot take this General Education course

MUS 149G - Rock to Reggae: Tracking Popular Music in New Zealand

This course introduces New Zealand’s home-grown popular music, from roughly the 1950s to the present day. A broad range of musical styles will be considered and situated within various social contexts. The issue of cultural identity in music – at national and local levels – will also be explored. No previous knowledge of music is assumed.

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  • Semester availability: Summer School, Semester One, and Semester Two
  • BMus and BMus conjoint students cannot take this General Education course

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