HI2422:03
Aboriginal Encounters: Conflict and Accommodation
| Townsville, Cairns | HECS Band 1 |
26 hours lectures, 12 hours field work. Semester 2.
Staff: Dr R McGregor.
This subject examines the history of interactions between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, from earliest recorded contacts to the present day. Topics covered include: frontier conflict and accommodation; dispossession and partial restitution of Indigenous lands; changes in government policy toward Aboriginal people and shifts in scientific and popular representations of Indigenous Australians.
Learning Objectives:
- to acquire an understanding of the major issues that have shaped relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians;
- to gain an appreciation of the changing social, cultural and political contexts within which relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians have developed;
- to become familiar with a diversity of interpretations of the history of Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations;
- to develop skills of research, analysis and writing appropriate to the discipline of history.
Assessment by tutorial participation (10%); minor essay (15%); major essay (35%); examination (40%).