Major - Indigenous and Australian Studies - prior to 31 December 2020

To be read in conjunction with the program of study requirements for the degree in which you are enrolled:

• Bachelor of Applied Geographical Information Systems
• Bachelor of Arts
• Bachelor of Arts - Enhanced Program for High Achievers
• Bachelor of Arts and Science
• Bachelor of Arts, Master of Teaching (Early Childhood)
• Bachelor of Arts, Master of Teaching (Primary R-7)
• Bachelor of Education (Early Childhood), Bachelor of Arts
• Bachelor of Education (Primary R-7), Bachelor of Arts

A student may complete a major sequence of 36 units in Indigenous and Australian Studies by completing two Year 1 topics (9 units), two Year 2 topics (9 units) and two Year 3 topics (9 units) plus two additional topics (9 units) from the Year 2 or Year 3 topics listed in the program of study below.

A student may complete a minor sequence of 22.5 units in Indigenous and Australian Studies by completing two Year 1 topics (9 units), two Year 2 topics (9 units) plus and additional topic (4.5 units) from the Year 2 or Year 3 topics listed in the program of study below.

The minor sequence is not available to students who commenced the Bachelor of Arts, Master of Teaching (Primary R-7) from 1 January 2020

Indigenous and Australian Studies is not offered as an extended major.  

• Aims
• Learning outcomes
• Program of study
• Honours

Aims

The Indigenous and Australian Studies major aims to:

• equip students with a thorough grounding in contemporary issues and debates in Indigenous and Australian Studies
• encourage students to connect across boundaries and value ethical behaviour through a cross-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary understanding of Indigenous cultures and Australian society
• produce graduates with a critical understanding of the various ways Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders identities are formed and represented within Australia
• produce graduates with the capacity to critically examine ideas of representation, power and privilege through key sites of knowledge production, including social and cultural institutions in Australia.
  

Learning outcomes

On completion of a major students will be able to:

• analyse the contribution made by Indigenous peoples to Australian life and culture
• explain broad understanding of Indigenous histories and cultures
• critically consider the political, legal and cultural issues facing Indigenous people today
• explain the application of "race" within Australia
• critically respond to the debates and viewpoints around the issues of reconciliation
• consider, from a broad understanding, how Indigenous peoples, both in Australia and internationally, view their history and culture. 

Program of study

The following is the program of study for a 36 unit major sequence in Indigenous and Australian Studies and should be read in conjunction with the course rule for the degree in which you are enrolled.

Major - Indigenous and Australian Studies

Core - Year 1 topics

9 units comprising:

INDG1000  Indigenous Studies: An Introduction  (4.5 units)
INDG1001  Race and Representation: Indigenous Identities  (4.5 units)

Core - Year 2 topics

9 units comprising:

INDG2001  Black Poetics: Indigenous Literary Studies  (4.5 units)
INDG2004  Reconciliation and Indigenous Knowledges  (4.5 units)

Core - Year 3 topics

9 units comprising:

INDG3001  Colonial Intimacies and the Economy: Mathematics of Genocide  (4.5 units)
INDG3002  Decolonising Institutions: Indigenous Critical Creative Praxis  (4.5 units)

Option - Year 2 and 3 topics

Plus 9 units of topics from the following list:

 ARCH2202  Archaeology of the First Australians  (4.5 units)
 GEOG3761  Caring as Country: Indigenous Environmental Management (4.5 units)
 HIST2015  Maps and Dreams: Indigenous-Settler Relations in Australian History  (4.5 units)
 INDG2002  Indigenous Australian Art  (4.5 units)
 SCME2101  Australian/Indigenous Media (4.5 units) 
 SOCI2021  Racism, Power and Identity  (4.5 units)
 WMST2016  Indigenous Women’s Voices: Race, Gender and Colonialism  (4.5 units)

Honours

Refer to Honours - Indigenous and Australian Studies