Whitecliffe Photo Media graduates are articulate, technically skilled and creative image-makers. They have a good understanding of industry standards and a strong belief in their ability to communicate effectively in the contemporary environment.

Photography and other lens-based media are integral to many top contemporary artists' practices both nationally and internationally. The Photo Media major at Whitecliffe College focuses on both technical and conceptual learning in order that students can fully engage with this challenging medium. The program is committed to an understanding of both analog and digital media as well as an engagement with photographic art history and contemporary critical thinking.... [-]

Whitecliffe Fine Arts graduates create compelling and powerful visual expressions of their ideas. By understanding and operating within the ever-expanding field of visual art, they learn to adapt quickly, think critically, and take a lead in shaping contemporary culture.

The development of a sustainable art practice through a variety of creative media is the cornerstone of Fine Arts study at Whitecliffe. Students explore traditional and contemporary materials, techniques and approaches in relation to their projects. Each student's understanding of theoretical and visual issues is developed and challenged in order to help them position their work in relation to relevant national and international art.... [-]

Whitecliffe Fashion Design graduates think creatively, take risks, and have a high level of industry standard technical skill. They are innovators with a personal vision who build careers as highly respected professionals within the fashion industry.

Fashion Design is an influential and creative medium offering a dynamic means of personal expression. Fashion is fast to react to global socio-economic and cultural events and represents contemporary concerns of the designer and the wearer, as well as providing a dialogue between the past and the present.

The Whitecliffe Fashion Design major encourages students to challenge the traditional boundaries of fashion and to foster their creativity while developing high levels of experimentation and technical skills.... [-]

Whitecliffe Graphic Design graduates are thinking practitioners with an understanding of both contemporary practice and traditional mythologies of the sphere of Graphic Design. Their broad technical skills mean they are well equipped to explore and articulate a diverse range of visual outcomes for design projects, making them highly sought after by the industry.

The Whitecliffe programme prepares students for a life-long career in Graphic Design, an industry that offers a broad range of creative and commercial possibilities.Your favourite magazine, beautiful books, functional maps and signage systems, movie credits, the latest company brands and packaging - everywhere you turn, you see the work of a graphic designer. Our students explore how to communicate visual messages to the world - to use their conceptual and visual skills to inform, persuade and educate. Whitecliffe students also graduate with a broad range of technical skills so they are well equipped to explore and articulate a diverse range of visual outcomes for design projects, making them highly sought after by the industry.... [-]

Study a range of technologies: art; graphic design; fashion; and interior design, to participate and contribute to the creative industries.

The programme is delivered within an applied and collaborative creative technologies environment learners will scaffold and broaden their knowledge, skills and application.

To achieve the award of the Bachelor of Creative Technologies: Te Tohu Paetahi Tū Tāngata, students must pass a total of 360 credits as specified in the programme structure, including:

Upon successful completion graduates within their creative technologies discipline will be able to:... [-]

This qualification provides students who have a particular interest in the service sector a range of specialized learning in the tourism and hotel/hospitality industry. The specialist knowledge gained from the Hotel Management major is to clearly give the advantage to students who wish to pursue careers in the hotel/hospitality industry. Similarly, the Tourism Operations major allows for special advantage in the nature of Tourism operations.

Those choosing to study the degree without majors are able to determine their learning to accommodate diversity in both tourism operations and hotel management. Students' study is complemented with business, management and communications skills enabling graduates the ability to contribute in hotel/hospitality and tourism at varying levels of decision making.... [-]

This degree offers students a programme of study that will enable them to take a holistic view of organisations and examine the interface between education, organisations and the community from a socioeconomic perspective to a specific business field.

This qualification will provide students with the skills and knowledge of management required to successfully work in the business sector of Aotearoa/New Zealand.

This degree also aims to provide regional contextualisation for applied management study.

Experience a mind-blowing adventure through the human body and find out what it’s capable of! This is how you turn a passion for sport, health, and fitness into a rewarding career.

It’s a highly enjoyable programme with plenty of hours spent at sports organizations and recreation centers, gaining industry knowledge and making valuable contacts.

Topics include anatomy and physiology, nutrition, exercise prescription, coaching, outdoor leadership, personal training, legal issues, event management, sports psychology, and athletic conditioning.

A new paper even gives you the option of studying sports performance analysis – providing play by play live feedback to enhance individual or team performances.... [-]

Blending graphic design, visual art and fashion in an interdisciplinary setting, the Bachelor of Creative Industries is all about allowing you to learn the diverse range of skills required by creative industries.

Taught in connected learning spaces supporting creativity and collaboration, you’ll learn by doing using unique learning tools and taught by some of New Zealand’s most talented artists, fashion designers and leading industry experts.

Real-world outcomes ensure our graduates are what industry demands – people who are able to communicate and collaborate and to provide amazing possibilities across a wide range of creative industries.

The primary aim of the this programme is to provide students with a thorough theoretical and applied knowledge of both the hardware and software fields of computing with specialisations in the design and maintenance of computer systems, databases, programming, operating systems, computer networking, internet and web development, gaming and animation, technical support and embedded controller applications for a wide range of industries. This will enable them to be work ready for graduation and to maintain their currency and develop their discipline by ongoing professional development.... [-]

Massey University’s Bachelor of Business is about you getting the most from your studies in business, so you can go on to a great career.

The Bachelor of Business will give you the leadership, communication and critical thinking skills that will make you a sought-after employee.

The Massey Business School has great links with potential employers and communities. You will spend time learning while helping local community organisations that need specialist help.

An internship course is also an integral part of the Bachelor of Business, This course involves working for a relevant company while you are studying. This will help you build relationships with potential employers. It is great for your CV and gives you the chance to see how your learning will be applied in the real world.... [-]

Massey University’s Bachelor of Accountancy is the only Bachelor of Accountancy offered in New Zealand. It will give you the skills you need to be a sought-after employee, both in New Zealand and internationally.

It is a specialised degree that leads you to an accountancy career and membership of one of the professional accounting organisations.

The BAcc degree includes a solid foundation of compulsory courses, but it also provides some flexibility to choose courses for yourself. It's a specialised degree that can lead to an accountancy career and membership in one or more of the professional accounting organisations.

There are more employment and career opportunities in accounting than there are in many other areas of study because the management of financial information underpins all business activity.... [-]

Combine your love of words and creativity with the study of business to become a highly-employable communication specialist.

Massey’s Bachelor of Communication (BC) builds the skills you need to make an outstanding contribution in whatever field of communication interests you. This relevant three-year degree is unique in New Zealand. You’ll join our graduates with exciting careers around the world.

The world needs communicators. It needs people who have the creativity and imagination to develop content that will inspire and connect people, and the logic, analysis and language skills to deliver that content in a strategic and meaningful way. Massey University’s BC will give you these skills.... [-]

The Bachelor of Aviation Management is a dedicated aviation qualification which will introduce you various aspects of the exciting aviation industry. If you have a passion for aviation, you enjoy working with other people, you are interested in working towards a management role in a global business, then this degree is for you.

You will gain an understanding of the human factors in aviation, airline strategic management, and airport operational management as well as have the opportunity to undertake an internship course (aviation practicum).

If you are already employed in the aviation industry the BAvMan qualification also provides a route to improve your skills and knowledge to further your career in aviation.... [-]

When becoming a Game Programmer, you’ll learn best while doing. You’ll code, you’ll craft and, in the end, you’ll graduate with a portfolio like no other.

Thanks to the partnership with Sony Computer Entertainment Europe (SCEE), you will develop games for PlayStation® platform through the PlayStation® First Academic Development Program. You will learn C++ and other coding languages and work with Unity and Unreal – the two main engines for game development. By the time you are ready to graduate, you will have collaborated with fellow programmers and game artists to create a commercially viable game.

A game programmer is a specialist software engineer who develops solutions and computer programs to activate computer game interaction. In essence, programming is the math and logic that makes the game happen. This may include Artificial Intelligence programming, engine programming, tools programming, mathematics and physics programming, and network programming or graphics programming.... [-]