Undergraduate Study in History and Art History and Theory

Undergraduate Degrees

The Department of History and Art History offers two main types of undergraduate degrees that have distinct course requirements:

• The Bachelor of Arts
• The Bachelor of Arts with Honours

Undergraduate Courses

Course Information books are available for History and Art History and Theory (pdf format).

History Papers Offered 2012

100 Level

• HIST 101 'Forensic Histories': Effective Research
• HIST 102 The Twentieth-Century World
• HIST 105 ANZAC and its Legacy: New Zealand and the First World War
• HIST 108 From Medieval to Modern Europe

200 Level

• HIST 207 Early Australia and New Zealand
• HIST 210 War and Environment
• HIST 211 Imperial Japan
• HIST 215 Heretics, Witches, and Inquisitors
• HIST 228 Scottish History since 1688
• HIST 229 Science and Society: 1789-1914
• HIST 230 Special Topic: Australasian Cities
• HIST 231 Special Topic: China: Oracle Bones to Revolution
• HIST 232 Special Topic: The Vietnam War in Historical Perspective
• HIST 233 Special Topic: The History of Maori Politics
• HIST 252 Varieties of History
• ENVI 211 Environmental History of New Zealand

300 Level

• HIST 301 Modern Russia and the Soviet Union
• HIST 308 New Zealand Society and Religion
• HIST 310 Issues in United States History: Freaks and Normals: U.S. History as Disability History
• HIST 314 State and Society in Twentieth Century Japan
• HIST 325 Modern Italy
• HIST 326 Australian Indigenous History
• HIST 328 Irish and Scottish Migrations in the 19th and 20th Centuries
• HIST 335 Special Topic: Victorian Britain
• HIST 353 Practising History

400 Level

• HIST 402 Topics in United States History: Disability as a Category of Analysis
• HIST 403 Topics in Medieval History: History of Political Thought
• HIST 405 Rethinking History
• HIST 410 Topics in intellectual history
• HIST 431 Special Topic: Life Stories: Biography and Autobiography in Japan
• HIST 481 Special study
• HIST 490 The BA (Hons) dissertation

HISTORY PAPERS - TIMETABLE - Semester One

HISTORY PAPERS - TIMETABLE - Semester Two

ART HISTORY & THEORY PAPERS OFFERED 2012

100-level

• ARTH114 Interpreting Artworks
• ARTH116 Modern Art
• MFCO 104 Introduction to Visual Culture

200-level

• ARTH211 Paris: Twentieth-Century Painting and Theory
• ARTH218 Pop Art, Fashion and Consumer Culture
• ARTH219 Early Medieval Art
• ARTH221 History of Photography
• ARTH223 Art of Japan

300-level

• ARTH314 Gender Issues in Art
• ARTH322 Surrealism: Art, Theory and Mind
• ARTH323 Totalitarian Art in Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany and the USSR
• ARTH325 Art Controversies in New Zealand
• MFCO304 Technology and the Visual Imaginary

400-level

• ARTH414 Gender Issues in Art
• ARTH422 Surrealism: Art, Theory and Mind
• ARTH423 Totalitarian Art
• ARTH425 Art Controversies in New Zealand
• ARTH470 Catalogue Project
• ARTH490 Dissertation

ART HISTORY & THEORY PAPERS - TIMETABLE - Semester One

HISTORY PAPERS - TIMETABLE - Semester Two

For a description of all courses offered by the Department of History and Art History please visit the course pages for History and Art History and Theory.

Further Information

Questions concerning undergraduate study should be directed to Mrs Frances Couch.

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