WS2020 - Race, Racism and Reconciliation

Credit points:	03
Year:	2006
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
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The purpose of this subject is to engage students in a structural analysis of the socio-economic and political relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians from the time of invasion/colonisation to the present, through the paradigm of race and racism. The subject will also unravel the relationship between "Anglo" and "other" Australians within the current context of Australian society, with a particular focus on post WW2 migration policies, practices and outcomes to the present. There will be some focus on analysing internal and external migration debates, together with an analysis of more liberatory practice potential. The subject seeks to assist students to explore these issues within a supportive environment in order to prepare them for social work and welfare practice in the North Queensland and broader Australian contexts.

Learning Outcomes

• to assist students to develop an understanding of themselves as cultural beings by understanding the concepts of culture, cultural products and the social construction of knowledge;
• to identify and critique racist social welfare attitudes and practice and to develop social welfare theories and models of practice based on social justice;
• to identify the nature and extent of the impact of economic and refugee migration on Australian society, particularly since WWII and the implications of this experience for social welfare theory and practice;
• to identify the structural forces determining the socio-economic and political status of racial and ethnic groups in Australia and to clarify the main elements of Government social and economic policy for racial and ethnic populations in Australia;
• to outline the historical development of black/white relations in Australia since colonisation and the implications of this experience for social welfare theory and practice.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to speak and write logically, clearly and creatively.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

WS2015

Availabilities
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Census Date 24-Mar-2006
Contact hours:	26 hours 12 hours
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Census Date 24-Mar-2006
Coordinator:	art-sjr
Contact hours:	26 hours 12 hours
Method of Delivery:	Printed materials
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