Literature

DISTANCE

NZ Institute of Business Studies

Distance learning courses for New Zealanders who want an enjoyable work-at-home business, or an income-generating hobby.

Northtec

Provides vocational training and a broad academic background in applied writing.

Whitireia Community Polytechnic

Offers a Diploma in Creative Writing and a Diploma in Publishing, with courses in short fiction, scriptwriting, poetry, non-fiction and writing for children, which can be taken individually or credited to a diploma.

Waiariki Institute of Technology

Offers an online Diploma in Creative Writing, Certificate in Creative Writing, or individual courses.

NORTHLAND

Northtec

Provides vocational training and a broad academic background in applied writing.

AUCKLAND

Auckland University

The English Department within the Faculty of Arts at Auckland University covers the study of texts of all kinds; mostly fiction, drama and poetry, but also other types of writing, and offers undergraduate and postgraduate studies..

AUT University

AUT University’s English Studies degree is made up of two complementary areas of focus. First, the use of language as both an object of study and a vehicle for various purposes, the second area concentrates on literature and culture..

Centre for Continuing Education, Auckland University

The Continuing Education programme offers a wide variety of open entry courses including languages, arts, humanities, music and social sciences.

UNITEC

UNITEC’s Bachelor of Performing and Screen Arts (Directing and Writing for Screen and Theatre) provides the skills for a professional career as a writer or director for film, television and theatre.

HAMILTON

University of Waikato

At the University of Waikato English is available as a major for the Bachelor of Arts. English may also be taken as a second major or as a supporting subject within other undergraduate degrees. Papers are drawn from literatures written in English since medieval times, and from all major English-speaking cultures, especially from the United Kingdom, North America, India, Australia, and New Zealand.

PALMERSTON NORTH

Massey University

Offers a range of undergraduate and graduate creative writing and performance papers either via internally or to extramurally from home in New Zealand or abroad.

TARANAKI

Western Institute of Technology

Offers extra-mural or full-time study in media studies.

WELLINGTON

International Institute of Modern Letters (Victoria University)

The International Institute of Modern Letters was established to promote and foster contemporary imaginative writing. In 2000 Victoria University was chosen to be its New Zealand headquarters and the Institute was inaugurated here March 2001.

Massey University

Massey University offers a range of English and Literature courses both internally and extramurally through their School of English and Media Studies. The school offers papers in Literature, Expressive Arts, Written and Spoken Communication, and Media Studies.

Victoria University

Victoria University offers English Literature and Language papers as part of their Bachelor of Arts programme, at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Whitireia Community Polytechnic

Offers a Diploma in Creative Writing and a Diploma in Publishing, with courses in short fiction, scriptwriting, poetry, non-fiction and writing for children, which can be taken individually or credited to a diploma.

NELSON/MARLBOROUGH

Nelson/Marlborough Institute of Technology

Offers creative writing courses in poetry, fiction, non fiction and writing for children and young adults.

CHRISTCHURCH

University of Canterbury

As a major subject, English can be continued to the BA(Hons), MFA(Creative Writing), MA or PhD degrees. Students explore not just written works but visual and performance “texts” as well as cinema and TV, museums, tourism and festivals.

The School for Young Writers

A not-for-profit organisation offering tuition to young writers anywhere in the world.

DUNEDIN

Aoraki Polytechnic

Offers Certificate in Creative Writing, including poetry and creative non-fiction.

Otago Polytechnic

Offers courses in the theory and practice of short and long fiction writing.

Otago University

The University of Otago offers Literature papers as part of its Bachelor of Arts degree, which ranges from under-graduate to doctorate levels.