University of Auckland Faculty of Arts

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Faculty of Arts

Type	Public
Parent institution	University of Auckland
Dean	Professor Robert Greenberg
Students	> 8,500
Location	Auckland , New Zealand
Website	www.arts.auckland.ac.nz

The University of Auckland Faculty of Arts, is a large faculty providing a range of programmes in over 50 subjects. The faculty is based on the city campus, however the departments are spread all over the campus. The main building, Arts 1, is located on Symonds Street.

The faculty is seen as being the best of its kind in New Zealand and in 2007 it was ranked 32nd in the world^[1]

Schools and Disciplinary Areas[]

After 2014 organisational reform of the Faculty of Arts:

School of Humanities

• Art History
• Classics and Ancient History
• English, Drama and Writing Studies
• History
• Philosophy

School of Social Sciences

• Anthropology
• Development Studies
• Media, Film and Television
• Politics and International Relations
• Sociology

School of Cultures, Languages and Linguistics

• Applied Language Studies and Linguistics
• Cultures and languages
• Intercultural programmes
• Translation and Interpreting

Te Wānanga o Waipapa – School of Māori Studies and Pacific Studies

• (Focus on indigenous studies related to Aotearoa-New Zealand and the Pacific)
• Māori Studies
• Pacific Studies

Before the 2014 organisational reform and Subjects:

• Department of Anthropology
  • Ethnomusicology
  • Archaeological Field Schools
    • Archive of Maori and Pacific Musics
  • Centre for Archaeological Research
  • National Conservation Laboratory for Wet Organic Archaeological Materials
  • Auckland Archaeological Society
  • RAL – Research in Anthropology and Linguistics
  • Polynesian Society

Subjects: Anthropology, Biological Anthropology, Cultural Anthropology, Social Anthropology, Archaeology, Archaeological Science, Conservation, Ethnomusicology, Women Studies

• Department of Applied Language Studies and Linguistics

Subjects: Applied Language Studies, English Writing, Academic English Studies (formerly as ESOL programme), Language Teaching and Learning, Language Teaching, Linguistics, Language and Literature

• Department of Art History
  • Museum and Cultural Heritage Programme

Subjects: Art History, Museum and Cultural Heritage

• School of Asian Studies
  • Department of Chinese
  • Department of Japanese
  • Department of Korean
  • Indonesian programme

Subjects: Asian Studies, Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Indonesian

• • New Zealand Asian Institute
    • China Studies Centre
    • Japan Studies Centre
    • Korea Studies Centre
• Department of Classics and Ancient History
  • Lacey Library

Subjects: Ancient History, Classics, Greek, Latin

• Centre for Development Studies
  • Subjects: Development Studies
• Department of English
  • Centre for Medieval and Early Modern European Studies (MEDEMS)

Subjects: English, Creative Writing, Writing Studies, Medieval and Early Modern European Studies

• School of European Languages and Literature
  • European Institute
  • Department of Comparative Literature
  • Department of French
    • Pacific French Research Unit
  • Department of Italian
  • Department of German and Slavonic Studies
    • Research Centre for Germanic Connections with New Zealand and the Pacific
    • German Research Library
    • Polish Programme
  • Russian Language and Literature
  • Croatian Language
  • Department of Latin American Studies
    • New Zealand Centre for Latin American Studies
  • Department of Spanish
  • Centre for Translation and Interpreting

Subjects: Comparative Literature, Croatian, European Studies, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Translation Studies, Interpreting

• Department of Film, Television and Media Studies

Subjects: Film, Television and Media Studies, Screen Production

• Department of History

Subjects: History

• Department of Maori Studies
  • International Research Institute for Maori and Indigenous Education
  • National Institute of Research Excellence for Maori Development and Advancements (CoRE)
• Centre for Pacific Studies

Subjects: Cook Island Maori, Pacific Studies, Tongan, Samoan

• Department of Philosophy
  • Professional Ethics Programme

Subjects: Ethics, Philosophy, Logic and Computation

• Department of Political Studies
  • Peace Studies Programme

Subjects: Political Studies, Public Policy,

• Department of Sociology
  • Criminology Programme
  • Centre of Methods and Policy Application in the Social Sciences

Subjects: Criminology, Sociology, Social Science for Public Health, Social Science Research Methods,

• School of Theology
  • Auckland Theological Education Group

Subjects: Biblical Studies, Christian Thought and History, Practical Theology, Theology

Arts Programs[]

Undergraduate programs

• Bachelor of Arts, BA
• (co-ordinate with other various faculties)
• Certificate in Languages, CertLang
• Certificate of Proficiency, COP
• Diploma in Languages, DipLang

Conjoint degrees

• Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Commerce (BA/BCom)
• Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) (BA/BE(Hons))
• Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Fine Arts or Bachelor of Fine Arts (Honours) (BA/BFA or BA/BFA(Hons))
• Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Health Sciences (BA/BHSc)
• Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Laws or Bachelor of Laws (Honours) (BA/LLB or BA/LLB(Hons))
• Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Music (BA/BMus)
• Bachelor of Arts / Bachelor of Science (BA/BSc)

Postgraduate programs

• Graduate Diplomas (bridging programme for postgraduate studies)
  • Graduate Diploma in Arts, GDipArts
• Honours
  • Bachelor of Arts (Honours), BA
• Postgraduate Certificate/Diploma
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Arts, PGDipArts
  • Postgraduate Certificate in Advanced Interpreting, PCertAdvInt
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Language Teaching, PGDipLangTchg
  • Postgraduate Diploma in Translation Studies, PGDipTranslatStd
• Masters
  • Master of Arts, MA
  • Master of Creative Writing, MCW
  • Master of Indigenous Studies, MIndgSt
  • Master of Literature, MLitt
  • Master of Professional Studies, MProfSt,
  • Master of Public Policy, MPP
  • Master of Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, MTESOL

Doctoral program

• Doctor of Philosophy, PhD

Bridging Programs

• Transitional Certificate (TransCert)
• Graduate Diploma in Arts (GradDipArts)
• Certificate of Proficiency (COP)

External links[]

• Official website of the Faculty of Arts, University of Auckland

References[]