Te Kura Toi School of Arts nurtures creative thinking, at work and at play, through innovation in teaching and research.
Te Kura Toi School of Arts nurtures creative thinking, at work and at play, through innovation in teaching and research.
The capacity to comprehend clearly, identify significant issues and articulate a creative response is essential in all areas of work. Employers value people who can demonstrate intellectual enquiry and creative practice — from stage performance and music, creative writing and multimedia production to linguistics and the languages.
Discover more about a BA with a major in Writing.
Our graduates are valued for their creative problem solving, analytic capabilities, depth of understanding and practical skills. Through language, literature, screens, music, movement and performance, our students learn and apply the power of creativity.
At Te Kura Toi School of Arts, you will develop your own artistic sensibility alongside sector-specific analytical and research experience, well-honed written and verbal communication skills, and a broad perspective on the world and its various cultures.
We provide:
Crucial skills across a range of contemporary context,
Teaching that develops craft and competencies across many forms of creative expression in the creation of original content,
Insights into everyday modes of communication, and
Opportunities for exploring new cultures and languages competencies
All of our subjects can be studied at Hons, Masters and PhD level.
Named for celebrated New Zealand writer Frank Sargeson, this prestegious Prize was conceived by writer Catherine Chidgey, who lectures in Writing Studies at the University. Entries are now open: limited to one per writer, per division.
The University welcomes its new Writer in Residence for 2025, Joan Fleming.
Home to some of New Zealand’s best novelists, short story writers and children’s authors, the University of Waikato is ranked among the top 250 universities globally in English Language and Literature in the QS World University Rankings.
The New Place Theatre/Te Tapere Hou is a teaching and rehearsal space used primarily by University of Waikato Theatre Studies students and staff.
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The origin story of the Anzac biscuit is largely myth – but that shouldn’t obscure the history of women during the war
The efforts of women to support soldiers on the front lines were not limited to the baking of Anzac biscuits, Senior Lecturer Garritt C. Van Dyk writes in this piece for The Conversation.
Geography team inspires grad’s next step
Having graduated last week with a Bachelor of Arts double majoring in Education and Geography, Cara Clark-Howard aspires to become a secondary school teacher.
As more communities have to consider relocation, we explore what happens to the land after people leave
New research from Dr Christina Hanna and her colleagues in environmental planning brings a new perspective to managed retreat - what happens to the places we retreat from. They explore this idea in this piece for The Conversation.
2025 Sargeson Prize seeks New Zealand’s best short fiction writers
Now in its seventh year, the prestigious Sargeson Prize for short stories is open for entries.
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