AWA: Academic Writing at Auckland

Write a scene that extends upon the narrative of one of the following plays: The World of Extreme Happiness, A Streetcar Named Desire or A Midsummer Night's Dream

From the selection of essays and excerpts from works relevant to the historical moment in which the plays on our course are situated... traversing various contemporary social, political and cultural debates... Choose ONE ...

'The period after 1945 did not witness the creation of a meaningful peace, but instead the creation of a new kind of war: the Cold War.' Discuss.

Proposes a modified Divine Command Theory in response to the 'Euthyphro Dilemma'.

Write an essay analyzing ONE of the passages below the box (like forensic analysis...)

Select an image from a gravestone ...and analyse its meaning. ...This project is intended to help you to find out about the symbolic meaning of visual images, using research tools, but also thinking independently about h ...

The symbolic meaning of visual images and how this is modified by context: origins and meaning of a gravestone image, and meaning in the context of whom the gravestone commemorated.

Art crimes, particularly art theft, affect the art market in several ways. Examples of this are the continually thriving illicit art industries, the increase and decrease of the value of art and antiquities pertaining to ...

Evaluation of two art pieces found in Aotea Centre

Short analysis of two works of art, appropriateness for context, both in terms of architectural/spatial setting and social role there. Which of the two works is most successful for the venue and why?

To what extent should the 'Australian Bush' be regarded as the creation of late-nineteenth-century urban writers? What if any are the implications of your opinion for Australia's national identity?

Why did the native peoples of central and south America succumb so quickly to the Iberian conquest?

Assess the relevance of Otto von Bismarck to German history.

Tennessee Williams never clearly answers the questions that circulate around Brick's sexuality. What does Williams achieve by withholding an answer, 'one way or the other'?

This essay will describe the "bite the bullet" response in more detail, before arguing that despite being the best defense and the injustice objection, it does not succeed in defending classical act utilitarianism comple ...

Write a close analysis of Hamlet, 3.iii.73-98

Analysis of a passage from Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (1954)

What do nineteenth-century Western responses to sexually transmitted diseases reveal about attitudes to gender, class and race?

This 10,000 word dissertation research project required students to undertake and produce independent work using a topic and theories of their own choosing.

Compare and contrast the portraits of the Squire (ll. 79-100) and the Clerk (ll. 287-310) in the General Prologue. What, if anything, do these two pilgrims have in common?