Summer study
Summer break? More like summer breakthrough. Keep your degree moving over summer. Whether you're catching up or getting ahead, our Summer School courses mean you don't lose momentum.
Browse the courses below to get started.
Special Topic
In this course students design, execute and produce an individual project of either a theoretical or applied nature. The project will involve research, analysis, creative exploration, documentation, and will result in a resolved body of work.
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Apply by: 21 Nov 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Special Topic
This course focuses on the negotiation and development of a project within the disciplines of art or design of either a theoretical or applied nature. The project will involve research, analysis, creative exploration, documentation, and will result in a resolved body of work.
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Apply by: 21 Nov 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Special Topic
This course focuses on the negotiation and development of a project within the disciplines of art or design of either a theoretical or applied nature. The project will involve research, analysis, creative exploration, documentation, and will result in a resolved body of work.
Quick facts
Apply by: 21 Nov 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Business and Strategy in a Changing World
This course offers an introduction to key issues and trends shaping the future of business and strategy in domestic and global contexts. Concepts and frameworks will be introduced and applied to explore the way that developments in the global economy, digital technology and the ecological environment affect local and global stakeholders.
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Apply by: 21 Nov 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Business Information Systems
This course introduces key components of information systems (people, hardware, software, networks, data) and how these components are integrated and managed for business operations, decision making, collaboration, and competitive advantage.
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Apply by: 21 Nov 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Business Strategy
This is an introductory course that focuses on strategic thinking and the analysis of organisational and environmental situations in order to evolve and implement business plans. Students will learn the tools and frameworks to conduct industry and organisational analysis, formulate and evaluate strategic options, and consider strategic implementation.
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Apply by: 5 Jan 2026
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Corporate Finance
This course provides students with a comprehensive understanding of both the theoretical principles and techniques in corporate finance and enables students to apply such principles and techniques in real-world business situations.
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Apply by: 5 Jan 2026
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Financial Management for Accountants
This course focuses on the analysis of financial statements and the assessments of an organisation's performance, including capital and cash budgeting. Develops an understanding of appropriate accounting tools and techniques used to measure and assess risk and value.
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Apply by: 5 Jan 2026
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Human Resource Management
This course is a study of human resource management (HRM) functions, principles, and practices in Aotearoa New Zealand. Students will examine how effective and ethical HRM can align with and enable organisational strategy.
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Apply by: 21 Nov 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Introduction to Finance
This course reviews the concepts, tools and techniques related to financial management. The focus is on time value of money, financial markets and financial instruments, the relationship between risk and return, and asset pricing.
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Apply by: 21 Nov 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Marketing Insights
This course is an introduction to the fundamentals of marketing as a discipline that identifies customer needs and wants, determines which target markets the firm can serve best, and designs appropriate products, services, and communications tailored to these markets. It provides students with the foundations for customer focused value creation.
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Apply by: 21 Nov 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Personal Finance
This course focuses on developing financial capability and understanding financial products that individuals and small business owners are exposed to. It develops core competencies in budgeting, managing debt, and savings and investments, and apply these competencies to real-world applications that have direct implications to the student.
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Apply by: 5 Jan 2026
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Project Management
This course is a study of theoretical and practical aspects of managing projects throughout the project life cycle. It examines the processes, tools, team and leadership skills which play an active part in managing projects. Topics include teamwork, project leadership, tools for effective project management, defining the project, creating the project plan, tracking and monitoring the project, agile methods and risk management.
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Apply by: 5 Jan 2026
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Stress and Resilience at Work
This course examines stress and resilience at work and other organisational contexts, including theoretical and practitioner models. Students will critically evaluate the causes and consequences of stress and resilience. A range of approaches to managing stress and improving resilience at work are explored at different levels: individual, organisational, profession, industry, government and NGOs.
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Apply by: 5 Jan 2026
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Intercultural Communication
This course provides a framework for analysing intercultural communication within mediated and non-mediated contexts. Introduces a critique of cultural interaction to explore concepts of identity, ethnicity, and culture. Examines the social and historical contexts of intercultural communication and ethnic relations in Aotearoa New Zealand, and wider global spaces.
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Apply by: 21 Nov 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Media, Technology and Society
This course explores how mass communication, digital media technologies, and society interact in contemporary society. Students will focus on media organisations, industries and networks, media messages, and contemporary audiences.
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Apply by: 21 Nov 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Text, Image and Sound
This course introduces the concept of textuality in the media, examining language, visual images and sound, and revealing how they generate meaning within cultural contexts. It explores texts from film, television, social media, radio and journalism.
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Apply by: 5 Jan 2026
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Electrical Engineering Fundamentals
This course introduces the fundamentals of electrical systems, covering analogue circuits and analysis techniques, digital circuits and analysis techniques, electrical power systems and electric machines, telecommunication systems; and computer organisation.
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Apply by: 21 Nov 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
24 November – 24 December 2025
Mon, Wed, 9am – 12pm & Fri 8am – 10am or 10am – 12pm
City Campus
Mathematics for Computing
This course provides an introduction to the mathematical and statistical concepts required for an understanding of the analysis of data and applications in computing. Topics include sets, functions, relations, matrix operations, probability, probability distributions and statistical measures.
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Apply by: 5 Jan 2026
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Networks and Internet
This course presents an integrated approach to data communications and computer networking principles, building on IT infrastructure concepts. These concepts are applied in a network environment starting with the application layer and progressing through to the data link layer.
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Apply by: 21 Nov 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Programming Concepts and Techniques
An introduction to the basics of computer programming to equip students for a career in any branch of IT, the sciences, data analysis or engineering. The fundamentals of writing, designing and testing programs will be developed.
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Apply by: 21 Nov 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Introduction to Applied Transactional Analysis
This course provides overview of the application of basic Transactional Analysis theory and concepts to the workplace, classroom and domestic settings. Each student will develop awareness of how Transactional Analysis can be used to resolve issues in professional life.
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Apply by: 5 Jan 2026
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Chemistry in Our World
This course introduces fundamental chemistry concepts through exploration of challenges that face humanity in the 21st century. It provides understanding of foundational concepts for those with limited prior chemistry knowledge, and offers a pathway towards further study in chemistry.
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Apply by: 5 Jan 2026
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
5 January – 5 February 2026
Mon, Wed, 10am – 12pm & 1pm – 2pm & Tue, Thur, Fri 10am – 12pm & 1pm – 3pm
City Campus
Wānanga/Studio I: Relationships
This course provides an introduction to architectural thinking, design practice and principles, and wānanga/studio practice. It employs the concept of whakapapa as a genealogical method for analysing and describing relationships between Papatūānuku (Mother Earth), people, place and culture in the context of the Anthropocene.
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Apply by: 21 Nov 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Wānanga/Studio II: Materials and Making
This course explores relationships between theoretical, historical, affective and practical understandings of materials. Considers sources, processes of production, transformation, application and environmental impact. Investigates questions of materiality and how the concept of whakapapa (relationships) can inform the role of the architect in the making the world.
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Apply by: 21 Nov 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Wānanga/Studio III: Mauri Ora I
This course builds on knowledge of Te Aranga principles and skills acquired in previous wānanga. It’s organised around explorations of diverse social and familial relationships and notions of living together, differently, in future urban environments. Drawing on shared philosophical concepts of mauri ora (a state of wellbeing or living well), kaitaikitanga (long-term protection) and eudemonia (the good life), the course explores historical and emerging conceptions of House/Whare, housing, hospitality and conviviality in urban social ecologies of varying scale and density.
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Apply by: 21 Nov 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Wānanga/Studio IV: Mauri Ora II
This course addresses notions of mauri (life force) at an urban or regional scale and through shared civic, work or recreational networks, environments or systems. Design projects, integrated support modules, and related presentations will develop disciplinary skills in architectural systems, sustainability, resilience, performance, design synthesis, and multi-media communication techniques.
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Apply by: 21 Nov 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Wānanga/Studio V: Innovation
This course critically explores the overlaps between architectural and entrepreneurial thinking as methodologies for fostering innovation in uncertain contexts. Design projects explore how notions of social, material, environmental or technological innovation can be better understood, delivered and tested in architectural education and practice. Introduces related concepts and practices of design participation, community engagement and co-production.
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Apply by: 21 Nov 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Wānanga/Studio VI: Building Complex
This course builds on ARCH700 to show how innovation can enact the concept of ki tua (futurity) to integrate systems change in architectural design, construction and practice. Students are challenged to integrate diverse spatial, aesthetic, technical, environmental and social requirements for a complex architectural proposition of civic, cultural and/or ecological significance. It includes knowledge of regulatory compliance, sustainable environmental, structural and construction strategies, design development, building enclosure and design and construction work processes. Documentation drawings and working models that show the means by which the design intent will be realised are produced in appropriate analogue and digital formats.
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Apply by: 21 Nov 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Need help?
If you’re already studying at AUT, you can contact the Student Hub for any questions about enrolling in Summer School.
Phone: 0800 288 864
Email: studenthub@aut.ac.nz