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Ranked New Zealand University1 for Graduate Employability 2 Top 100 in the world for 30 subjects3 Saturday 28 August REGISTER NOW OPENDAY.AC.NZ A warm welcome Contents to the University of Auckland Your studies at the University We send you our very best wishes and warmly Welcome 2 of Auckland will enable you to invite you to attend Open Day On Campus, Saturday 28 August 2021. Arts collaborate with some of the best Whilst 2020 dramatically altered our 6 minds in the world. The experience outlooks and pathways into the future, some will engage your passion and turn things remain the same. People make us New Business 10 Zealand’s world-ranked university – our staff, your goals into realities. Most our students, our partnerships, the research Creative Arts and Industries 12 importantly, it will empower you we conduct and the impact we make in our communities and beyond. Architecture and Urban to make a difference. 12 While studying at the University of Auckland, Planning you’ll benefit from research-informed teaching from highly talented staff. They’re not only Dance Studies 13 specialists in their academic fields, but many have also received national teaching Design 13 excellence awards. These awards recognise their exceptional quality as educators. Fine Arts 14 Our academics will encourage you to be an independent thinker, to challenge yourself, to Music 14 be curious – and to act on that curiosity. The support and opportunities at the Education/Teaching 16 University of Auckland are impressive. You’ll enjoy cutting-edge facilities and the benefits Sport, Health and Physical of wide-ranging student support services. Education 16 There will also be opportunities to join clubs, make friends, take part in competitions – and Social Work 17 border restrictions permitting, even study abroad at another top university through our Engineering 18 international partnerships. Explore your options, visit us at Open Day On Global Studies 24 Campus, then apply to take the next step in your journey with the University of Auckland. Law 26 We look forward to welcoming you in 2022. Medical and Health Sciences 28 Dawn Freshwater Vice-Chancellor Science 30 General Sessions 32 Bus Timetables 36 Map 38 Cover attributions: 1 Times Higher Education 2020 and QS World Rankings 2021 2 QS World Rankings Graduate Employability, number one in NZ and 59th Worldwide in 2020 3 QS World Rankings by Subject 2021 2 3 Open days change lives. We want the decisions you make afterwards to bring amazing benefits Open Day Online that last a lifetime. So we’re here to help you discover the learning opportunities that are just 29 June 2021 right for you. You’ll find out how to gain entry to the On Tuesday 29 June, this vibrant online University of Auckland, what it’s like to be a student experience included a great many carefully here, and what careers your study could lead to. crafted webinars to both inform and inspire. At Open Day On Campus, the Sir Owen G We’ve captured this showcase in the form of Glenn Building (12 Grafton Rd) will host a on-demand recordings. You can view them after large exhibition area, as well as being one of registering online. the main lecture venues. You can visit faculty www.openday.ac.nz exhibition stands there to talk with current staff and students. We have other venues too. In many faculty locations you can view displays, Open Day On Campus chat with us, and attend lectures, activities and entertainment events. See the map on pg. 38. 28 August 2021 This handbook provides information about the On Saturday 28 August, we invite you to join us for topics covered in the faculty lectures. After the Open Day On Campus. Come and experience our faculty pages, we list lectures on general topics impressive environments and facilities first hand. such as accommodation, sport and recreation, We’ll be hosting exhibition areas, presentations, entrepreneurship, careers services, and other tours, entertainment and other activities. Our student support. Everything is summarised in the faculties are offering a great programme of timetable on the fold-out backcover. presentations and tours. You’re also welcome to visit our Halls of Residence and other key facilities. Te Tīmatatanga 28 August 2021 8.30am, Alfred Street (11) Te Tīmatatanga is a traditional ceremony to open proceedings for the day. A conch shell will sound and be followed by a karanga to acknowledge everyone’s arrival before Open Day On Campus begins. 4 5 Arts Arts Lectures Come and experience Anthropology Communication Health and Society provocative thinkers, extraordinary cultures, What does it mean to be human? Introducing the Bachelor of Science fiction or pandemic reality: Japan: Fascinating language, Exploring the intersections between astonishing culture 9.40-10.10am Communication (BC) profound histories, and health and society 9-9.30am Lecture Theatre B15, General Library, Alfred St (2) 11-11.30am 1.40-2.10pm Lecture Theatre B10, General Library, Alfred St (2) digital worlds at New Anthropology was recently listed as the second Lecture Theatre B28, General Library, Alfred St (2) Lecture Theatre B10, General Library, Alfred St (2) Global citizens are nearly always fluent in more most needed degree for the future by the Irish Discover how you can make a positive Zealand’s internationally than one language. A second language also Independent. This lecture provides a brief difference to our world with our new Bachelor Film tropes from science fiction and horror ranked Arts faculty.* deepens a speaker’s cultural understanding. introduction to Anthropology, which stands at of Communication (BC). Hear about your study became everyday pandemic reality last year. Japanese provides English speakers with a the intersection of science and the humanities. options, bring your questions and find out if the Our planned new BA major, Health and Society, totally new perspective on the world that many Check out inspiring lectures and explore Hear why understanding human origins, human BC is for you. draws upon the social sciences and humanities. find fascinating. Come and join us for a half new interests such as Communication, diversity and the human condition matter more We aim to shed light on contemporary hour together. Find out about our Japanese Criminology, Māori Studies, Media, Film than ever in today’s world. healthcare, medical practices and knowledge- programme, study opportunities in Japan, and Television, Politics and International Criminology production, and experiences of health and and courses that explore important aspects of Relations, and Anthropology. illness around the world. Tour the Archaeology and Japanese culture. Come for a taste of Japanese What is Criminology? We also have lectures to help you Bioanthropology Labs studies at Auckland! discover more about the BA in general 10.20-10.50am | 1-1.30pm Open 11am-2.30pm History and the places it can take you. Lecture Theatre B28, General Library, Alfred St (2) 2-6 Park Avenue, Grafton Learn to read the Korean alphabet in This talk will introduce Criminology as a field Visit the Roger C. Green Archaeological Science History shows you the world ten minutes of study by exploring the key questions that Complex. You’ll meet staff and students and 11-11.30am Quick facts criminologists ask. We’ll discuss studying 12.20-12.50pm learn about some of the exciting discoveries Lecture Theatre B15, General Library, Alfred St (2) Criminology here in the Faculty of Arts and explain Lecture Theatre B10, General Library, Alfred St (2) we make in this space. A free shuttle bus will where a degree in Criminology might take you. History is everywhere today. From statues to Koreans use an alphabet, invented in 1443. operate between Symonds St and Park Ave, Bachelor of Arts (BA) cinema, from TikTok shanties to “fake news”, Learn to read Korean words in just 10 minutes departing opposite St Paul’s Church on Symonds 3 years full-time our societies knowingly (and sometimes in this informal, hands-on workshop and give Street (bus stop 7147). English unknowingly) use the past to reflect upon the 360 points yourself the opportunity to win a prize! There is present. Why do humans everywhere still fight no need for prior knowledge of Korean. Applications close 8 December 2021. Art History English for life over real as well as imagined histories, and why does it matter which stories we do or don’t share 11.40am-12.10pm about the past? Come and learn how studying Transform your world through Spanish Lecture Theatre B10, General Library, Alfred St Decoding Images History at the University of Auckland better and Italian Admission and (2) 9-9.30am equips you to understand the world in which you 11.40am-12.10pm enrolment advice Case Room 4, Level 0, Sir Owen G Glenn Bldg, Study poetry, essays, digital literature, and live – and how it came to be this way. Case Room 4, Level 0, Sir Owen G Glenn Bldg, 12 Grafton Rd. (8) stories to increase your ability to think, play, 12 Grafton Rd. (8) “Do I need to have studied a subject at work with, challenge and organise the kind of Knowing Spanish or Italian can transform school to take it at Uni?”, “What’s a major?”, Art History is not only about pretty pictures. As Languages language being you are. We study the languages your world as you increase your fluency and “How many courses should I take in my an art historian, you learn to decode images to of creativity to participate more fully in the cultural knowledge of Spain, Latin America and first year?”, “What is General Education?” understand their social and political messages, materials of cultures and in the many ways of Transform your world through French Italy.