IA5008 - Linking Indigenousness 5

Credit points:	03
Year:	2007
Student Contribution Band:	Band 1
Administered by:	School of Indigenous Australian Studies

Available to all students enrolled in a postgraduate program.

The subject provides students with the opportunity to develop the skills and understanding students require to undertake community-based research in their own discipline area. Students will engage in direct interaction with Indigenous peoples delivering the teaching component of the field trip and, during that process, will identify a topic for an independent research project relevant to their area of expertise. A proposal for the approval of the Head of School must be submitted.

Learning Outcomes

• explore the processes of Indigenous epistemological and ontological perspectives;
• examine personal world views and cultural values and beliefs and examine these from an Indigenous perspective;
• analyse the historical, political, social and cultural frameworks of identified Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Island communities;
• employ appropriate protocols when conducting consultations and research with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities;
• complete a small research project in an Indigenous context observing protocols.

Graduate Qualities

• The ability to adapt knowledge to new situations;
• The ability to think critically, to analyse and evaluate claims, evidence and arguments, and to reason and deploy evidence clearly and logically;
• The ability to deploy critically evaluated information to practical ends;
• The ability to find and access information using appropriate media and technologies;
• The ability to evaluate that information;
• An understanding of the economic, legal, ethical, social and cultural issues involved in the use of information;
• The ability to select and organise information and to communicate it accurately, cogently, coherently, creatively and ethically;
• The acquisition of coherent and disciplined sets of skills, knowledge, values and professional ethics from at least one discipline area;
• The ability to reflect on and evaluate learning, and to learn independently in a self directed manner;
• The ability to speak and write clearly, coherently and creatively;
• The ability to work with people of different gender, age, ethnicity, culture, religion and political persuasion;
• The ability to work individually and independently;
• The ability to select and use appropriate tools and technologies;
• The ability to use online technologies effectively and ethically.

Inadmissible Subject Combinations:

IA1007 and IA2007 and IA3007

Availabilities
Townsville, Block, Study Period 1
Census Date 30-Mar-2007
Face to face teaching 18-Apr-2007 to 21-Apr-2007
Coord/Lect:	Professor Yvonne Cadet-James.
Contact hours:	0 days fieldwork
Assessment:	assignments (80%); research proposal (20%).
Townsville, Limited, Study Period 1
Census Date 30-Mar-2007
Face to face teaching (Consult School for on-campus attendance requirements)
Coord/Lect:	Professor Yvonne Cadet-James.
Contact hours:	0 days fieldwork
Assessment:	assignments (80%); research proposal (20%).
Townsville, Block, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2007
Face to face teaching 25-Sep-2007 to 28-Sep-2007
Coord/Lect:	Professor Yvonne Cadet-James.
Contact hours:	0 days fieldwork
Assessment:	assignments (80%); research proposal (20%).
Townsville, Limited, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2007
Face to face teaching (Consult School for on-campus attendance requirements)
Coord/Lect:	Professor Yvonne Cadet-James.
Contact hours:	0 days fieldwork
Assessment:	assignments (80%); research proposal (20%).
Cairns, Limited, Study Period 1
Census Date 30-Mar-2007
Face to face teaching (Consult School for on-campus attendance requirements)
Coord/Lect:	Professor Yvonne Cadet-James.
Contact hours:	0 days fieldwork
Assessment:	assignments (80%); research proposal (20%).
Cairns, Limited, Study Period 2
Census Date 31-Aug-2007
Face to face teaching (Consult School for on-campus attendance requirements)
Coord/Lect:	Professor Yvonne Cadet-James.
Contact hours:	0 days fieldwork
Assessment:	assignments (80%); research proposal (20%).

Note: Minor variations might occur due to the continuous Subject quality improvement process, and in case of minor variation(s) in assessment details, the Subject Outline represents the latest official information.