This course explores a variety of social processes which have tended to critique, subvert or reject a consensus of contentment in modern and post-modern America.
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This course surveys American motion pictures and television, with particular emphasis on their commerical orientation, their technical and stylistic distinctiveness, and their massive sociocultural influence in America and worldwide.
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A broad introduction to American literature, with the emphasis on twentieth century fiction. The programme is structured around three key terms: romanticism, modernism, and postmodernism.
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This course reviews the evolution of jazz as an art form from its earliest origins, through a study of the personalities, styles and key elements, to its emergence as a major international musical phenomenon.
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In this course we will critically examine the development of the American corporation, the rise of American consumer culture, the development of advertising and promotionallism in modern and postmodern contexts, the emergence of multinationals and the relationships between American cultural products and the complex flows of globalization. By exploring the contested spaces of both promotional and consumption practices, the course will introduce students to material that seeks to complicate our often taken-for-granted assumptions about the increasingly global marketplace of culture and consumption.
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This course explores the historical and cultural complexities involved in the construction of identity based on ethnicity, as well as the intersections between ethnicity, race, gender, and class.
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This course analyses the iconography of rock and roll through a critical examination of the ways in which race, gender, class, sexuality and generational conflict are articulated in post war media culture.
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This introductory course explores the evolution of the Antarctic continent, the dynamics of polar ice, the drivers of weather and climate in Antarctica, the circulation of the Southern Ocean, astronomy and human interaction with the polar region including the history of exploration and intriguing legal issues.
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This introductory course focuses on biology and explores how plants, microbes, animals and humans adapt to living in the extreme environments of the Antarctic, the sub-Antarctic and the Southern Ocean. Low temperatures and periods of total darkness are just some of the extremes to be endured. Discussion includes human psychology, and our interaction with the polar region lying at New Zealand's back door.
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An introduction to a broad range of topics and issues of relevance to social and cultural anthropology.
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This course deals with a range of topics designed to introduce students to anthropology and to an anthropological analysis of contemporary society. It complements ANTH 102.
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This course is an introduction to the biological, behavioural, and cultural evolution of hominids from the earliest evidence to the emergence of the Neolithic revolution.
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This course presents a wide range of artistic works from outside the Western tradition. The course focuses on the arts of Africa, the Americas, Asia, the Pacific and the Maori tradition. Individual works are discussed to provide insight into the cultures, histories, and artistic practices of these cultures.
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This course provides an introduction to the study of European art and examines key works of art and architecture from the Renaissance to the beginning of the Eighteenth Century. These works are studied in their historical and artistic contexts.
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This course focuses on traditional material culture, including weaving (raranga), cordage (taura), fire making, working with stone to make adzes and tools, hand made musical instruments, bone carving, wood carving, and the use of plants as traditional medicines. Students will learn customary protocols, guardianship and respect for knowledge and taonga (treasures) and undertake practical work, library based research, and work with taonga such as cloaks, nets, personal and other artefacts in the Canterbury Museum. Other topics are included depending on available expertise.
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Descriptive overview of the universe. Earth impacts and extinctions by comets and asteroids. Solar system origins. The big bang and cosmology. Stellar birth and death. Life in the universe. Search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) programmes.
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A general descriptive introduction to modern astrophysics: the Sun and stars, the Galaxy, extragalactic systems and cosmology.
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The chemistry and metabolic function of the major constituents of living organisms. Metabolic pathways. Protein structure and enzymology. Energy production.
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Principles of genetics, including the structure of RNA and DNA, molecular replication, transcriptions, translation. Protein synthesis.
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Molecular structure, bonding, stereochemistry and reactivity. Chemistry of naturally occurring and synthetic materials.
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Reaction mechanisms, synthesis and biosynthesis of organic compounds.
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Selected lectures, tutorials and laboratories from courses relevant to biochemistry. Exchange students only may enrol in this course. Credit for this course may not be used to satisfy the requirements of a University of Canterbury degree. Internally assessed.
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Selected lectures, tutorials and laboratories from courses relevant to biochemistry. Exchange students only may enrol in this course. Credit for this course may not be used to satisfy the requirements of a University of Canterbury degree. Internally assessed.
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