We are currently reaching out to new potential student communities for our offerings on how arts, humanities and Indigenous knowledges relate to science, technology and the environment. Some courses include creative and practice-based components, and are available across the University at second, third and fourth year level. They could be included, for example, in a focused art-science Diploma, Certificate or Degree programme taken part-time.
Study in person or hybrid across theory- and practice-based courses where you’ll learn key theory, how to put it into practice, and expand your skills through individual, supervised projects.
Relevant courses from Science in Society and Art History include:
T1 (March to June 2023): SCIS 414: Science and the Humanities
- ~ 3 hours a week class time over 12 weeks
- ~ 150 hours time commitment over 14 weeks
- Internal assessment, no exams
A discussion-based, student-led exploration of the arts, humanities and Indigenous thought in conversation with scientific issues. This course introduces material from the arts, humanities, Māori and Indigenous thinkers as they engage with issues from environmental breakdown to digital culture, from viruses to the new space race. Students have opportunities to develop their practice in creative and written assessments.
T1 (March to June 2023): ARTH 201: Art and Environment
- ~ 3 hours a week class time over 12 weeks
- ~ 200 hours time commitment over 14 weeks
- Internal assessment, no exams
This course explores the relationship between art and the environment, with a focus on art since 1968. Alongside changing definitions of ‘nature’ and what it means to be human, the course considers the role of art in environmental activism. Students will reflect on the way the environment is experienced and imagined within art historical and interdisciplinary debates.
T2 (July to November 2023): ARTH 304: The Planetary Turn: Art and Science
- ~ 3 hours a week class time over 12 weeks
- ~ 200 hours time commitment over 14 weeks
- Internal assessment, no exams
This course introduces the living planet as a site to reimagine the meeting points of art and science. With a particular focus on global intersections of art, science, technology, and environment since the seventeenth century, the course examines non-Western and Indigenous as well as European, cultural, political and aesthetic perspectives on the complex challenges facing our planet.
Many other Science in Society courses allow for practical arts-based project work:
- T1 (March to June 2023): SCIS 311: Science Communication
- T2 (July to November 2023): SCIS 314: Science Communication Project
- T1 (March to June 2023): SCIS 410: Science Communication
- T2/T3 (July 2023 to February 2024): SCIS 589: Science Communication Project