Summer study
Summer is the perfect time to upskill, get ahead or get a taste of university with a single course at AUT. Take the opportunity over summer to experience our courses delivered by internationally renowned staff within our top-notch facilities or online (where available).
Most of the courses below are available to anyone interested in these single courses as well as to students already enrolled at AUT. Browse the listings below for more details on courses you can study this summer and information about how to apply.
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.
Quick facts
Apply by: 15 Nov 2024
Domestic fee: $911.14
International fee: $4987.50
Student services levy (for all students): $143.27
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: 15 Nov 2024
Domestic fee: $911.14
International fee: $4987.50
Student services levy (for all students): $143.27
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: 15 Nov 2024
Domestic fee: $911.14
International fee: $4987.50
Student services levy (for all students): $143.27
Business Information Systems (for beginners)
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.
Quick facts
Apply by: 10 Jan 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.
Quick facts
Apply by: 10 Jan 2025
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.
Quick facts
Apply by: 15 Nov 2024
Domestic fee: $911.14
International fee: $4225
Student services levy (for all students): $143.27
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.
Quick facts
Apply by: 15 Nov 2024
Domestic fee: $911.14
International fee: $4225
Student services levy (for all students): $143.27
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.
Quick facts
Apply by: 15 Nov 2024
Domestic fee: $911.14
International fee: $4225
Student services levy (for all students): $143.27
Management Accounting
This course introduces students to management accounting and provides an examination of systems and procedures for costing products, using cost data for decision making, preparing budgets for cost management and internal reporting, and current developments in management accounting.
Quick facts
Apply by: 15 Nov 2024
Domestic fee: $911.14
International fee: $4225
Student services levy (for all students): $143.27
Marketing Insights (for beginners)
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.
Quick facts
Apply by: 15 Nov 2024
Domestic fee: $911.14
International fee: $4225
Student services levy (for all students): $143.27
18 November – 13 December 2024
Mon, Wed, Fri, 1pm - 4pm
City Campus and online synchronous
Personal Finance (for beginners)
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
Quick facts
Apply by: 10 Jan 2025
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.
Quick facts
Apply by: 15 Nov 2024
Domestic fee: $911.14
International fee: $4225
Student services levy (for all students): $143.27
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.
Quick facts
Apply by: 10 Jan 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.
Quick facts
Apply by: 15 Nov 2024
Domestic fee: $847.44
International fee: $4225
Student services levy (for all students): $143.27
Taylor Swift: Communications Professional
Throughout her 18 year career Taylor Swift has demonstrated excellence in lyrics, music, and a curated image of pop culture phenomenon. What must also be examined, however, is Swift’s prowess as a communications professional, the backbone to curating and maintaining her career in the media. Students will learn terminology and theoretical viewpoints to conduct critical media analysis of Swift’s audio/visual content. Students conduct a case study critique into how Swift applies principles of a particular communication profession to supplement her musical career.
Quick facts
Apply by: 15 Nov 2024
Domestic fee: $847.44
International fee: $4,250.00
Student services levy (for all students): $143.27
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.
Quick facts
Apply by: 10 Jan 2025
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.
Quick facts
Apply by: 15 Nov 2024
Domestic fee: $911.14
International fee: $5512.50
Student services levy (for all students): $143.27
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.
Quick facts
Apply by: 10 Jan 2025
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.
Quick facts
Apply by: 10 Jan 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.
Quick facts
Apply by: 15 Nov 2024
Domestic fee: $847.44
International fee: $4787.50
Student services levy (for all students): $143.27
Korean Language and Culture 1 (for beginners)
Korean Language and Culture 1 is for students who have a little or no knowledge of the language and culture, and who are interested in being able to communicate and interact with Korean speakers. Students will be able to communicate in Korean at a simple practical level in order to socialise and carry out activities in a range of contexts, using culturally appropriate language and gestures. Traditional and contemporary Korean culture and social practices including generational change, K-pop and the ‘Korean Wave’, will be explored. Values and beliefs will be compared to provide insights into students’ own cultures as well as the cultures of others.
Quick facts
Apply by: 15 Nov 2024
Domestic fee: $847.44
International fee: $4,075.00
Student services levy (for all students): $143.27
New Zealand Sign Language I (for beginners)
Students with little or no knowledge of NZSL will acquire competency in both production and comprehension of NZSL to communicate at a simple practical level. Students' understanding of the basic grammatical structures and functional language patterns will be developed, as well as skills for initial stage NZSL conversation.
Quick facts
Apply by: 15 Nov 2024
Domestic fee: $847.44
International fee: $4,025.00
Student services levy (for all students): $143.27
Spanish 1A (for beginners)
This course helps students develop competency in both written and oral Spanish to communicate at a simple and elementary level. Emphasis is on linguistic competence in the following components: listening, speaking, reading and writing. Another important feature of language learning is the knowledge and understanding of Spanish culture. Therefore, this course aims to gain basic communicative competence in the Spanish language as a whole, in daily situations within cultural and social contexts.
Quick facts
Apply by: 10 Jan 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Advanced Environmental Science Skills
This course explores advanced concepts in statistical data collection, analysis and modelling, as well as technologies for environmental site assessment, and laboratory analysis. Develops professional practice through group and independent work, as well as communication for different audiences.
This course has a field-based component and includes a trip to the South Island* which is included in your tuition fees.
*Subject to change
Quick facts
Apply by: 10 Jan 2025
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.
Quick facts
Apply by: 10 Jan 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Food Science
This is an introduction to the nature and properties of foods, the nutritional requirements of humans, and major food processing procedures including spoilage.
Quick facts
Apply by: 10 Jan 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Foundations of Life
This course introduces the structural organisation of cells and the molecular basis of biochemical and cellular processes of fundamental importance to life. It explores the structure and function of biological molecules and cellular components, and the flow of genetic information within cells and between generations.
Quick facts
Apply by: 10 Jan 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Mapping Our Environment
This course introduces geospatial science, the technologies used, and the types of roles filled by geospatial scientists in the workplace. It explores the fundamental concepts related to spatial data collection, storage, manipulation, analysis in the context of environmental mapping and problem solving. Students will learn to use and create maps to relay essential spatial information to various audiences.
Quick facts
Apply by: 10 Jan 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Marine Ecosystem Dynamics
This course analyses the effects of biological–physical interactions in the oceans comprehensively, from the microscopic to the global scale. Investigates the role of ocean biota in climate change.
This course has a field-based component and includes a trip to Rotoroa Island* which is included in your tuition fees.
*Subject to change
Quick facts
Apply by: 10 Jan 2025
Domestic fee: TBC
International fee: TBC
Student services levy (for all students): TBC
Auckland in the Twentieth Century
This course offers students the opportunity to explore the exciting landscape of Auckland’s social and cultural history during the twentieth century. It focuses on how Aucklanders lived at various periods in the century, what challenges they faced, and what events shaped the character of the city.
Quick facts
Apply by: 15 Nov 2024
Domestic fee: $847.44
International fee: $4,075.00
Student services levy (for all students): $143.27
Nostalgia and Utopianism in New Zealand History
This course aims to introduce students to theories of nostalgia and utopianism, and to enable them to examine how aspects of these concepts can be applied to various episodes in New Zealand history since the 1830s. Students will be able to select their own topics of exploration (with guidance), and will explore how theories of nostalgia and utopianism apply to actual historical examples.
Quick facts
Apply by: 15 Nov 2024
Domestic fee: $847.44
International fee: $4,075.00
Student services levy (for all students): $143.27
Te Tiriti O Waitangi: The Treaty of Waitangi
This course explores the critical issues relevant to the Tiriti O Waitangi in both its historical and contemporary contexts. Students will be exposed to a range of social and political theories relevant to understanding contemporary Treaty issues. A particular focus will be the analysis and interpretation of the way in which the Treaty can be applied to contemporary social, political and economic initiatives.
Quick facts
Apply by: 15 Nov 2024
Domestic fee: $847.44
International fee: $4,075.00
Student services levy (for all students): $143.27
Need help?
Current AUT students
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
New students
Our Future Student Advisors team can help you through the application process and answer any queries you may have.
Phone: 0800 AUT AUT (288 288)
Email: futurestudents@aut.ac.nz