Australian Indigenous Studies Major

Total units 48 Units

Major code AUIS-MAJ

Academic career Undergraduate

The major in Australian Indigenous Studies enables students with an interest in Australian Indigenous Studies to take a set of interrelated courses in different disciplines without the normal prerequisite required in each course. The major is interdisciplinary, in which it is possible to combine courses from anthropology, archaeology, art, history, linguistics, music, public policy, and gender studies for a broadly based understanding of Australian Indigenous societies and cultures, both past and present.

Taken together, the courses provide a comprehensive insight into Australian Indigenous Studies including Indigenous epistemologies; Indigenous occupation and adaption on the Australian continent; Indigenous socio-cultural, ceremonial, artistic and linguistic practices past and present; impacts of European colonisation; histories of relationships between Indigenous and other Australians; the situation of Indigenous peoples in Australia today; and related issues of representation.

Learning Outcomes

Upon successful completion, students will have the knowledge and skills to:

demonstrate an informed understanding of Australian Indigenous history and culture, and policies pertaining to Indigenous Australians
demonstrate an ability to analyse the ways in which history and culture informs Australian Indigenous perspectives on a range of topics, including responses to policy
demonstrate an informed understanding of Australian Indigenous cultures and traditions
demonstrate a comparative knowledge of Australian Indigenous concerns in the global context

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Requirements

This major requires the completion of 48 units including:

A minimum of 6 units of courses at 3000 level

12 units from completion of the following course(s):

Code	Title	Units
ANTH1004	Introduction to Indigenous Australian Studies	6
AUST1001	Learning an Indigenous Australian Language	6
INDG1001	Indigenous Peoples, Populations and Communities	6

A minimum of 6 units must come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
ANTH2005	Traditional Australian Indigenous Cultures, Societies and Environment	6
ANTH2017	Culture, Social Justice and Aboriginal Society Today	6
ANTH3017	Indigenous Worlds: Challenges of Emergence, Recognition, and Change	6
ARCH2004	Australian Archaeology	6
ARTH2098	Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Art	6
AUST2008	Learning an Indigenous Australian language 2	6
ENGL3037	Literature, Law and Human Rights	6
GEND2021	Trauma, Memory and Culture	6
HIST2022	Indigenous Australian History	6
HIST2241	Global Aboriginal and Native Histories	6
HUMN2051	Introduction to Cultural Heritage Management	6
INDG2001	Indigenous Cultural and Natural Resource Management	6
INDG2002	Contemporary Australian Indigenous Music Studies	6
INDG3001	Public policy development and implementation and Indigenous Australians	6
INDG3003	The Indigenous Economy	6
INDG3005	Special Topics in Indigenous Studies	6
LING2016	Language in Indigenous Australia	6
LING2022	Language Policy and Language Politics	6
MUSI2213	Introduction to Ethnomusicology	6

A maximum of 30 units may come from completion of courses from the following list:

Code	Title	Units
ANIP3003	Australian National Internships Program Internship A	6
ANIP3005	Australian National Internship B	12
INDG3004	Indigenous Studies Supervised Research Project	6
MUSI3313	Writing about Music 2: Sources and Methods	6

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