This course offers an introduction to the world of digital storytelling and data journalism. It introduces ethical, cultural, and technical issues related to digital data and provides practical experience in creating engaging narratives using textual...

Great Ideas is a course reflecting on some of the most exciting, important and revolutionary ideas that have shaped society and culture as it is today. It also considers how those ideas have an ongoing influence. It’s an interdisciplinary course look...

"Wild Civility" introduces some of the great English texts from the medieval to the Romantic period (1380-1830). It explores literature from the bawdy tales of Chaucer, to the drama and poetry of the age of Shakespeare, to the verse of the Romantic p...

Twenty-first century New Zealand literature in English has been shaped by a variety of cultures, literatures, traditions and practices: Māori, Pasifika, European, and Asian- from the tangata whenua to the various tangata tiriti. These encounters- on ...

This course examines five hundred years of popular literature, from the ballad to the graphic novel, focusing on the genres of romance, gothic, the detective story, and science fiction. Particular attention will be paid to the way that literary conve...

ENGL 116 is an introduction to the reading of Shakespeare focused on close study of a single play with associated material. The main focus will be on understanding the text, with detailed attention to Shakespeare's language, imagery, and rhetoric, as...

How does fiction work? What happens when we approach the reading of fiction as an experience? What does it mean to respond to a voice crafted in prose? This course aims to provide students with some essential tools for the study of narrative. We read...

Even in a modern world dominated by visual and digital media, written communication remains the most essential and powerful tool not only in the university but in all social and professional contexts. This course draws on traditions of literary and c...

The course teaches skills in both critical and creative reading and writing, through engagement with a wide range of poetry. You will explore the effects of concision, ornament, sentence structure, repetition, metre and form.

An exploration of the history of literature(s) in English, from the Anglo-Saxons to contemporary Aotearoa/New Zealand. It is built around case studies of a series of major texts in their changing historical and cultural contexts, the texts being link...

This course will explore literature written in the territory that is now the United States of America as the new colonial nation expanded across the continent during the nineteenth century. We will focus in particular on literature by Indigenous, Bla...

A survey of British, Irish and American literature from 1899 to the Second World War. This course studies many of the major writers of the Modernist period and includes poetry, short stories, novels, plays, film and the visual arts. Particular attent...

This course explores the development, theory, and practice of Western dramaturgy from Romanticism to the present. Dramaturgy is the study of how meaning is generated in drama and performance. Students will learn and practice a suite of analytic and s...

A study of a group of plays by Shakespeare (and his contemporaries), focusing particularly on their treatment of gender difference and gender ambiguity. The plays will be approached both as literary texts and as scripts for stage performance and film...

The English novel from its beginnings to 1930, with special attention to a selection of major works. The lectures discuss the novel's general historical development, special areas of interest, and individual authors and works; tutorials give practice...

Science Fiction as a literary genre from its beginnings to the present day, with special attention to a selection of canonical works. The lectures discuss Science Fiction’s general historical development, special areas of interest, and individual aut...

A study of the diverse theatrical practices of theatre in Aotearoa New Zealand from the pre-colonial era to the present. There will be a core focus on how on how cultural identities have been formed and expressed through performance and playwriting. ...

An introduction to the influence of the classics (Greek and Roman) on English literature from the middle ages to the present. The course focuses on the transformations of some key classical myths and two classical genres. Classical texts are read in ...

This course traces the gothic from the haunting of castles and monasteries of the eighteenth century through the terrifying forests and jungles of the nineteenth century to the suburbs of the late twentieth century city.  Particular attention will be...

What makes a poem 'modern'? How have poets in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries responded to the challenge of imaging the modern? Reading poets from Australia, Britain, Canada, New Zealand and the United States, this course explores how modern...

A thematic and historical study of New Zealand literature from the eighteenth century to the present focussing on such issues as: fantasies of place and encounter; the ecologies of the colonial world; cultural nationalism and literature as ‘a home in...

The course introduces the study of children's literature through a substantial selection of texts by a range of recognised authors - normally including a New Zealand writer.

This course explores the relationship between English literature and journalism from the 18th to the 21st century. It considers questions of fact and fiction, objectivity, and style, across a range of genres. Students have the opportunity to produce ...

A workshop course in writing poetry which also involves wide reading in the genre.

A workshop course in writing short fiction which also involves wide reading in the genre.

A workshop course in writing for children which also involves wide reading of children's literature.

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A workshop course in writing creative nonfiction (e.g. memoirs, travel writing) which also involves representative reading in the genre.

A topic in creative writing. Course materials will be an additional cost.

A topic in creative writing. Course materials will be an additional cost.

This creative writing workshop is a practical paper for students who wish to produce fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry or scriptwriting which is informed by Māori or Pasifika perspectives, cultures and origins, the process of colonisation, or que...

This course explores the relationship between English literature and journalism from the 18th to the 21st century. It considers questions of fact and fiction, objectivity, and style, across a range of genres. Students have the opportunity to produce ...

Not merely a tool of academic assessment, the essay is an art form with a long and rich history in English and other literatures. This course analyses classic essays from the Renaissance to the 21st century, and uses these as models for students' own...

The proliferation of digital media is pushing the boundaries of literary and creative communication in Oceania. This course is grounded in the digital and environmental humanities as it asks students to navigate Indigenous transformations of writing ...