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Bachelor of Broadcasting Communications (Journalism)
Level 7 practical programme that provides skills and theory of news stories and production of news for radio, television, or online media.
New Zealand Certificate in Digital Media and Design
This diploma aims to develop the technical and thinking skills needed to work in visual communication or graphic design at an introductory level.
Auckland University of Technology: Communications
Communication studies programmes that provide valuable foundation for key roles in lots of industries, including the media and communications fields.
Offers undergraduate and postgraduate programmes.
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Massey University: Bachelor of Communications (Media Studies)
Discover how the media shape our identities and our world. Create, critique, and connect with the media world and build skills to understand and make media for a wide range of professional communication roles.
Yoobee College's School of Design
Courses in amination, design, digital Innovation, film, and technology. Offers in-person and online study and has campuses in Auckland, Rotorua, Wellington, and Christchurch.
South Seas Film School
Based in Auckland and focused on one-year intensives that delivers skilled needed to move directly into the industry.
Study options are: Screenwriting/Directing, Documentary Directing, Camera Audio and Lighting, Production Management, Post-production, On-screen Acting.
Southern Institute of Technology: Film, Animation and Game Design
Offers Certificate, Diploma, Degree, and Graduate Diploma in filmmaking, animation, game design, and digital media.
Toi Ohomai New Zealand Certificate in Communications Media (Level 4)
For those considering a career in the media or wanting to enhance your media skills. Course covers areas like filming, editing, social media, radio and digital marketing.
University of Auckland: Media, film, and television
Study issues such as advertising, gender relations, democracy, global media genres and histories and Hollywood cinema — with an emphasis on the theoretical, cultural and historical knowledge necessary for critical engagement.
Undergraduate, postgraduate, and doctoral study.
University of Canterbury (UC): Media and Communication
Study how communication is produced in television, social media, and in organisational life, and explore how media builds community, reinforce gender norms, drive social change.
UC offers a major in Media and Communication within the Bachelor of Arts or a minor in Media and Communication within the Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Commerce, Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Sport Coaching, and Bachelor of Youth and Community Leadership.
University of Otago
Communication Studies
Communication Studies focuses on the social, technological, political and cultural implications of current and changing communicative practices and networks.
Offers a range of degree options from undergraduate to postgraduate.
Film and Media Studies
Engage critically and creatively with a diverse and fast-changing media world and prepare for new career opportunities in emerging fields.
Offers a range of degree options from undergraduate to postgraduate.
University of Waikato: Screen and Media Studies
Provide students with the skills and understanding necessary for citizens in today's rapidly-evolving media environment.
Research interests include: New Zealand in the global media economy, media education and media democracy, media and religion, digital gaming, and audience studies.
Victoria University: Media Studies
Examine how media and society influence each other, explore the world of popular culture and visual culture, look at the relationship between the media and politics, and the role of media in New Zealand.
Offers undergraduate degrees –Bachelor of Arts, Bachelor of Communications, Graduation Diploma in Arts, and postgraduate studies.
Wellington Institute of Technology (Weltec)
Work on real world projects. Learn from leading professionals. Earn a New Zealand Diploma in Creativity (Level 5 or Level 6), a Bachelor of Creativity, or Graduate Diploma in Creativity.
Te Auaha - New Zealand Institute of Creativity | Wellington Instutute of Technology (Weltec)
Film Production
Offers an NZ Diploma in Screen Production for Level 5 and Level 6. Learn from industry practitioners and get hands-on experience in screen production.
Creative Technologies
Create design in 2D and 3D media. Work on real world projects. Learn from leading professionals. Earn a New Zealand Diploma in Creativity (Level 5 or Level 6), a Bachelor of Creativity, or Graduate Diploma in Creativity.
Earn a New Zealand Certificate in Creativity (Level 4), a Graduate Diploma in Creativity (Level 7), or a Bachelor of Creativity (Level 7).
Wintec Media Arts
Hamilton-based tertiary provider that aims to provide innovative, interdisciplinary education that prepares students for careers in the creative industries.
Includes study in variety of media and offers Diploma in Journalism, Bachelor of Communication, Bachelor of Media Arts (Honours), and Master of Arts.