• Offered by School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics
  • ANU College ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
  • Course subject Indigenous Studies
  • Areas of interest Australian Studies, Australian Indigenous Studies, Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, Communications, Language Studies
  • Academic career UGRD
  • Course convener
    • Dr Carmel O'Shannessy
  • Mode of delivery Online or In Person
  • Co-taught Course
  • Offered in Winter Session 2022
    See Future Offerings

Students build on the language skills and understandings they have developed in INDG2003 to develop speaking, listening, reading and writing skills in Gamilaraay, an Indigenous Australian language, to develop a deeper knowledge and understanding of the relation between language, culture and society in the community of the speakers and to reflect on the place of Indigenous Australian languages in Australia.

This course may be offered on campus or off-campus (location(s) to be advised for each offering), and delivered over the course of a semester or in intensive mode.  It may also be offered online. This course is available for cross-Institutional enrolment.

Students will only be permitted to travel upon completion of ANU required documentation, including, where required,  the approval of all documentation by the relevant delegate.

Disclaimer: Applicants are advised that due to circumstances beyond the University's control (for example, specific community security concerns and health crises) it may not be possible for students to commence or complete this course. In such cases, an alternative lesson plan will be arranged to fulfil the course requirements. International students are asked to check the visa implications of taking the course as an online course.

Learning Outcomes

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

Upon successful completion of this course, students will have the knowledge and skills to:
  1. demonstrate an advanced  knowledge of the grammar and lexicon of Gamilaraay;
  2. demonstrate advanced communicative skills in Gamilaraay;
  3. read, write and understand texts in Gamilaraay;
  4. demonstrate an understanding of  Gamilaraay linguistic, socio-cultural, traditional and modern practices; and
  5. reflect on how their understanding of Indigenous Australian languages and language revival work has deepened.

Other Information

For more information about Australian Indigenous Language(s) on offer in the current year, please reference information available on the School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics website.
 
Cross-institutional students are asked to contact the Course convenor as early as possible.
 
Important notice:
If your final course is in a non-standard session, results may not be available in time for the upcoming Conferring of Awards Ceremonies.  Results for a course will only be released once marks for all students in the course have been finalised and entered.  Individual results for students will not be released. An autumn session course may not receive results by the deadline to graduate in July and a spring session course may not receive results by the deadline to graduate in December.  You must take this into consideration before enrolling into this course.

Indicative Assessment

7 Written tasks, 1,500 words (20%) [Learning Outcomes 1, 3, 4]
7 Oral tasks, 15 minutes (20%) [Learning Outcome 2]
2 Conversations, 15 minutes (20%) [Learning Outcome 2]
2  In class quizzes, 20 minutes (10%) [Learning Outcomes 1, 3]
Final writing task, 100 words (10%) [Learning Outcomes 1, 3]
Final project, 1, 000 words (20%) [Learning Outcomes 1-5]
 

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Workload

130 hours of total student learning time made up from:
a) 36 hours of contact: 36 hours of seminars and/or online class time for students taking the class as an online course; and
b) 94 hours of independent student research, reading and writing.

Requisite and Incompatibility

To enrol in this course you must have completed INDG2003; or with permission of the convenor. You are not able to enrol in this course if you have previously completed AUST2008, AUST6009 or INDG6004.

Assumed Knowledge

INDG2003 Gamilaraay 1.

Fees

Tuition fees are for the academic year indicated at the top of the page.  

Commonwealth Support (CSP) Students
If you have been offered a Commonwealth supported place, your fees are set by the Australian Government for each course. At ANU 1 EFTSL is 48 units (normally 8 x 6-unit courses). More information about your student contribution amount for each course at Fees

Student Contribution Band:
1
Unit value:
6 units

If you are a domestic graduate coursework student with a Domestic Tuition Fee (DTF) place or international student you will be required to pay course tuition fees (see below). Course tuition fees are indexed annually. Further information for domestic and international students about tuition and other fees can be found at Fees.

Where there is a unit range displayed for this course, not all unit options below may be available.

Units EFTSL
6.00 0.12500
Domestic fee paying students
Year Fee
2022 $3840
International fee paying students
Year Fee
2022 $4980
Note: Please note that fee information is for current year only.

Offerings, Dates and Class Summary Links

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The list of offerings for future years is indicative only.
Class summaries, if available, can be accessed by clicking on the View link for the relevant class number.

Winter Session

Class number Class start date Last day to enrol Census date Class end date Mode Of Delivery Class Summary
4248 01 Jul 2022 22 Jul 2022 22 Jul 2022 30 Sep 2022 In Person N/A
4711 01 Jul 2022 22 Jul 2022 22 Jul 2022 30 Sep 2022 Online N/A

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