IA1108:03
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander History
Townsville
Inadmissable Subject Combination: CA1108
36 lectures/workshops. Residential 2 and flexible delivery.
Staff: Ms K Martin.
Students study the effects of dispossession, separation, integration, assimilation, self-determination and self-management through case studies and develop a historical perspective on legal developments.
Learning Objectives:
- provide Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students with an overview of Indigenous history in Australia;
- provide students with the background knowledge required to study the way in which prevailing theories, laws and politics have influenced the development of official policy towards Aborigines since colonisation;
- enable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to become familiar with and use the language and concepts of history and its academic requirements as a subject taught at university;
- introduce Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to a range of case studies of Indigenous experience since colonisation;
- enable Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students to study the effects of colonisation on Indigenous life and culture;
- enable students to study the effects of government policy on Aboriginal and Islander health, family life, employment and wages since colonisation, through World War II to the present.
Assessment by examination (45%); off-campus assignment (15%); on-campus assignment (20%); attendance and participation (20%).
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