BMCT Structure and Requirements

Requirements | Single Major Structure | Double Major Structure
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Requirements

The BMCT normally takes three years of full-time study to complete and includes four compulsory papers. You may also study part-time as there are no time restrictions to complete the BMCT.

You study one or two of the five majors depending on your interests. You do not need to specify your major(s) until the second year of study but it is important to note the requirements for a major, especially the prerequisites for 200 level papers, before choosing your first year elective papers.

Creative Practices
Creative Technologies
Design Media
Māori, Media and Communication
Screen and Media Studies

If you are majoring in Creative Practices, Creative Technologies, Design Media or Screen and Media Studies, you will enrol with the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. If you are majoring in Māori, Media and Communication you will enrol with the School of Māori and Pacific Development.

BMCT Degree Guidelines

• To complete the BMCT, students are required to pass a total value of at least 360 points;
• At least 240 points must be above 100 Level, and at least 80 points must be above 200 Level;
• Four compulsory papers must be passed;
  • CGRD161 Effective Visual Communication
  • CRPC101 Creative Technologies and Creative Practice
  • SMST101 Digital Screens
  • CRPC301 Creative Technologies and Creative Practice Project
    The following 2 papers are strongly recommended
  • CRPC200 Social Practices and Creative Technologies: Foundation
  • CRPC300 Social Practices and Creative Technologies: Advanced
• A BMCT major comprises at least 120 points above 100 Level, including at least 60 points above 200 Level, and must include any compulsory papers for that major;
• A supporting subject comprises 70 points including at least 40 points above 100 level in any subject;
• A second major also comprises 120 points. A second major replaces the requirement of a supporting subject;
• Students may take up to 80 points in subjects other than those listed for the degree. In a double major if the second major is a non-BMCT major up to 120 points may be taken to fulfil the major requirement. All 'elective papers' must be in BMCT subjects. CRPC301 may be credited towards the first or second major if it is within the field of the degree;
• Normally at least four 100 Level papers in any subject must be passed before taking 200 Level papers; at least 90 points passed at 100 and 200 Levels before taking 300 Level papers.

Major Requirements

Creative Practices

In their first year of study students must ensure they include prerequisites for papers they wish to study at 200 and 300 levels. Examples of student pathways within the major are set out below.

Compulsory Papers:
CRPC200 Social Practices and Creative Technologies: Foundation
CRPC300 Social Practices and Creative Technologies: Advanced

Pathways:
Dance:       2 of ALED225, SPLS208, SPLS214, TIKA253
                 + SPLS308, TIKA357
Theatre:     THST202, TIKA253, THST301, THST302
Music:       2 of MUSI215, MUSI240, TIKA241
                 + 2 of MUSI315, MUSI323, MUSI340, TIKA341
Māori Arts: 2 of TIKA211, TIKA241, TIKA251, TIKA253, TIKA257
                 + TIKA341, TIKA357

Elective Papers:
ALED225 Dance and Education
MUSI215 Composition 2
MUSI240 Screen Music Composition
SPLS208 Choreographing Dance
SPLS214 Dance, Community and Environment
THST202 Theatre Workshop
TIKA211 He Taonga Tuku Iho: Evolving Māori Art
TIKA251 Raranga Whakairo: Design Elements in Māori Fibre Arts
TIKA241 Te Ao Oro: The Māori World of Sound
TIKA253 Toi Kori: The Art of Movement - Māori Song and Dance Theatre
TIKA257 Kapa Haka: Noble Dances of the Māori

MUSI315 Composition 3
MUSI323 Acoustic and Electroacoustic Composition
MUSI340 Digital Composition
SPLS308 Performing Dance
THST301 Play Production
THST302 Theatre Workshop 2
TIKA341 Ngā Taonga Puoro mai i e Ao Tawhito ki te Ao Hou: Ancient
             and Contemporary Music of the Māori
TIKA357 Ngā Mahi-a-Rehia: Leisure Pursuits of the Māori

Creative Technologies

In their first year of study students must take MUSI140 Music and Computers, SMST112 Video Production 1 and either COMP103 Introduction to Computer Science 1 or COMP123 The Computing Experience as these papers are prerequisites for required papers at 200 and 300 levels.

Compulsory Papers:
  MUSI240 Screen Music Composition
  COMP224 Computer Graphic Design
  MUSI340 Digital Composition
  COMP324 Interactive Multimedia Systems
and either both of:
  SMST212 Video Production 2
  SMST312 Video Production 3
or both of:
  SMST217 Screen Media and Digital Practices
  SMST308 Advanced Integrated Screen Media

Design Media

As well as the 100 level compulsory papers for the BMCT, it is recommended that students intending to major in Design Media include COMP125 and COMP126 in the first year of the programme of study in order to meet prerequisites for study at 200 level and above.

Compulsory Papers:
 *  CGRD224 Computer Graphic Design
  COMP223 Information Discovery
  CGRD350 Intern Project
  COMP324 Interactive Multimedia Systems
  COMP325 Introduction to Human-Computer Interaction
and a further 20 points from:
  CGRD252 Studies in Visual Communication
  CGRD353 Advanced Studies in Visual Communication

* may take CGRD241 in place of 224 at the discretion of the Department.

Māori Media and Communication

Compulsory Papers:
  MMAC221 From Whaikōrero to Bebo: Evolution of Māori Media
  and Communication
  MMAC321 Māori Media: Challenges of Representation and
  Policy Development

Screen and Media Studies

In year one students should take SMST112 Video Production 1 if they intend to pursue the video production strand as this paper is a prerequisite for required papers at 200 and 300 levels.

Compulsory Papers:
  SMST217 Screen Media and Digital Practices
and a further 40 points from:
  SMST209 Topics in Media Representation
  SMST210 Small Studio Production
  SMST212 Video Production 2
  SMST216 Television: Medium, Narrative and Audience
plus:
  SMST308 Advanced Integrated Screen Media
and a further 40 points from:
  SMST310 Small Studio Production
  SMST312 Video Production 3
  SMST318 Animation Studies
  SMST319 Games Studies

Single Major Structure

This diagram sets out the minimum requirements for the BMCT with a single major. Your major must be one of the BMCT major subjects.

Double Major Structure

This diagram shows how you can study two BMCT major subjects in depth, that is, a double major. Your first major must be from the BMCT major subjects.