BR1222:03
Australian Indigenous Studies
Townsville, Cairns
Also offered at Yarrabah campus.26 lectures, 26 tutorials. First semester flexible delivery.
Available to Tertiary Access Course students.
This subject endeavours to provide a comprehensive in depth analysis of the governmental and legislative policies that have been imposed on Indigenous Australians since invasion. Students will be required to conduct their own investigative work on political, social or cultural issues. Topics include colonisation or invasion; Indigenous Australians and Governments; distribution of power; social Darwinism; race and racism in Australia; the stolen generation; segregation; protectionism; assimilation; self-management and self-determination; protest and Australian Aborigines; native title legislation; education and the future.
Learning Objectives:
- critically analyse information written or produced about Indigenous people of Australia;
- respond to information about Indigenous Australians through writing or other medium of communications;
- an appreciation of the complexities of Australian Indigenous heritage and cultures;
- understand Indigenous social infrastructures by the analysis of the effects of the policies of segregation, assimilation, integration, self-management, self-determination and social justice;
- generate an understanding from a variety of information sources and synthesise the information to produce hypotheses;
- have an awareness of the historical perspectives of Indigenous Australians that has lead to the position of Aboriginal people in Australian contemporary society.
Assessment by essay (40%); tutorial presentation (20%); examination (20%); attendance and participation (20%).
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