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HI2422:03

Aboriginal Encounters: Conflict and Accommodation

Townsville, Cairns

HECS Band 1

26 hours lectures, 12 hours tutorials. 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%).