IA2015:03
Indigenous Australian Worldviews 2
Townsville, Cairns
Prerequisites: IA1015
First semester flexible delivery. The subject will be taught through a combination of external package plus seminars and tutorial tasks as negotiated with the lecturer at the commencement of the semester.
Available to Bachelor of Indigenous Studies students and other undergraduate students.
Staff: Ms K Martin.
Through using an historical framework of contact between Indigenous Australians and the Colonisers, this subject examines the evolution and adaptation of Indigenous Australian Worldviews in a changing Australia. By identifying selected historical events and phases it discusses and analyses the disjuncture of Indigenous Australian Worldviews and Colonial Worldviews and the implications for both in terms of knowledges, beliefs and relationships.
Learning Objectives:
- gain an increased awareness and understanding of the Worldviews of Indigenous Australians and a paradigm for the study of these Worldviews;
- recognise and develop an understanding of the evolution of Indigenous Australian knowledges, beliefs and cultures and their interpretations and expressions;
- gain knowledge of the history of contact between Indigenous Australians and Colonisers, to gain understanding of the implications of these for Indigenous Australians;
- further develop skills for critically analysing and responding to the representations of Indigenous Australians using the Worldview paradigm in a variety of sources and materials.
Assessment by attendance and participation (10%); tutorial presentation (25%); essay (40%); and examination (25%).