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The course provides students with linguistic, psychological and social perspectives on the acquisition of a second language, with particular emphasis on English as a Second Language. Topics include the concepts of 'interlanguage', 'error analysis', 'transfer' from first language, and 'natural order of acquisition', 'fossilisation', and 'critical period' for language acquisition.

3D Environments explores designing objects, environments and scenarios for a range of physical and virtual applications. Students will learn techniques suitable for a variety of outcomes including animation, games and motion graphics with a primary focus on designing environments, digital set design and landscapes. The course introduces students to fundamental concepts related to creating virtual and physical spaces through designing experimental 3D environments. Students will be introduced to virtual production and real-time 3D concepts through games engines. There is a strong focus on analysing and critiquing both historical and contemporary examples of virtual design, installation and light projections. Student projects may involve work integrated or research integrated learning opportunities; projects that involve external stakeholders; group/collaborative projects; speculative or more theoretically oriented projects; professionally oriented projects; projects based on competition or award briefs.

This course introduces students to the techniques and processes used in the creation of 3D objects, models and artworks for a wide range of applications in the creative industries including animation, film, art and design. Students will design and make objects using production processes and techniques such as 3D printing, digital modelling and the application of digital techniques to traditional materials. The course will develop foundational skills in designing for rapid prototyping and the creative application of digital fabrication technologies such as laser cutting, CNC machining and/or 3D printing to contemporary object making.

Integration of point-cloud mapping technologies, on land and at sea, including lidar,photogrammetry, and multibeam acoustic sensing. Practical applications and skills for collecting, processing, analysing and delivering high-resolution survey data.

A study of a selected area of nineteenth-century literature.

The eighteenth century in Britain is a hard period to characterise.  Europe was still living with the aftershocks of the renaissance and reformation, the cultural transformations that ended the very different medieval world, and was on the verge of the industrial revolution, when most of Europe became recognisably modern.  Negotiating this boundary in their lives and writings are the two contrasting figures of the English literary titan and powerful representative of the tradition, Samuel Johnson, and his biographer and much younger friend, the proto-romantic Scot, James Boswell.  The London they inhabited was Europe’s greatest metropolis, and alive with booksellers and coffee shops, catering for an unprecedented demand for knowledge, literature, and news.  These few volumes and two writers will introduce students to fascinating and important works across a range of genres, published 1735-91, including poetry, criticism, lexicography, biography, travel, fiction, journalism, letters, political writing, periodical essays, and private journals.

This is a paper for advanced students in Ancient Greek. The paper focuses on two different Greek authors and is taught via the close reading and translation of selected texts. The paper develops advanced skills in translation and critical commentary.

This paper is devoted to the reading of work from Latin authors. The aims of the paper are to extend your knowledge of Latin language, and to heighten your appreciation of Latin literary techniques.

An advanced study of a topic in New Zealand literature.

A tour through the world's 6,000 languages, learning where they come from and how they are put together: the foundational sounds, words, sentences and meanings of language.