AIH288 - Exploring Australia's Indigenous Pasts

Unit details

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Year:2019 unit information
Enrolment modes:Trimester 2: Burwood (Melbourne), Waurn Ponds (Geelong), Online
Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:

0.125

Trimester 2 Unit Chair:

Tiffany Shellam

Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with:

AIH388

Scheduled learning activities - campus:

1 x 1 hour Class and 1 x 1 hour Seminar per week

Scheduled learning activities - cloud (online):

1 x 1 hour class per week (recordings provided), 1 x 1 hour online seminar per week

Content

This subject examines the history of encounters between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, since 1788. Students will be introduced to a wide variety of such cross-cultural encounters, the different contexts in which they occurred, the way these encounters have been represented and the issues involved in studying them. The subject will focus on a number of Indigenous leaders and communities; non-Indigenous migrants, missionaries and colonial administrators. Specific studies will focus on locations throughout Australia and themes including land and violence; dispossession and control; missionary and humanitarian ventures; government policies and ideologies; friendship and negotiation; language and education; children and gender. Throughout the course, students will be encouraged to reflect on the political nature of representing Indigenous pasts in histories, museum displays, public memorials, the media and universities and reflect on the ongoing nature of the history of colonialism in Australia.

Assessment

Assessment 1 (Individual) - Quizzes - (500 words or equivalent) - 10%

Assessment 2 (Individual) - Essay (2000 words) - 50%

Assessment 3 (Individual) - Essay (1500 words) - 40%

Unit Fee Information

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