BR1009:03
Introduction to Indigenous Studies 1
Yarrabah
26 lectures, 26 tutorials. First semester.
Available to Tertiary Access Course I students.
This subject will focus on the major issues facing Indigenous people around the world. Emphasis will be placed on a critical perspective of the threats confronting Indigenous cultures. Topics include who and where are the Indigenous peoples of the world; Indigenous peoples and their relationships with land; Indigenous peoples and their relationship with the natural world; Indigenous peoples’ spirituality; Indigenous peoples resistance to invasion; so-called progress and Indigenous societies; colonisation or invasion – first contact; the effects of deforestation and damming for Indigenous societies; mining and Indigenous people; environmental disasters and the effect on Indigenous populations; cultural collapse.
Learning Objectives:
- strengthen and maintain students’ identity as Indigenous people;
- use the knowledge gained from the Indigenous studies course to students’ own advantage;
- apply analysis techniques, conceptual approaches and methodologies in a major research project;
- generate an understanding from a variety of information sources and synthesise the information to produce hypothesises;
- examine and critically analyse research and information about Indigenous peoples.
Assessment by summaries (40%); journal (30%); attendance (20%); participation (10%).
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