Indigenous Australia

Description

Indigenous Australia introduces you to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples through time. It seeks to expand your understandings of Indigenous society by focusing on the diverse knowledges, scholarship, experiences, stories, and concepts of the world’s longest continuous culture. With your peers, you will have the opportunity to explore the historical, cultural institutional and political relationships between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians, in the past and how these continue in the present. The subject uses a relational approach and draws on diverse works to develop your critical thinking skills, and to articulate your personal standpoints as Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. Harnessing your curiosity, topics for discovery include Indigenous resistance and activism, constitutional recognition, kinship, racism in sport, Indigenous astronomy, sovereignty, First Nations literature, and criminology and incarceration. Indigenous narrative, story and metaphor are some of the ways used to discover Indigenous ways of knowing, being and doing in partnership with scholarly resources such as journal articles, book chapters and reports. At times websites, media, film, music, dance and literature will be used to develop your ability to acquire and articulate new knowledge. Indigenous Australia is available as a Bachelor of Arts Discovery subject, supporting your introduction to university and fostering connections within your course. If you are taking this as your Discovery subject, you will need to concurrently complete the three compulsory Joining Melbourne modules. Teaching Period: 2 March 2026 to 31 May 2026 Assessment Information: Description Timing Percentage Annotated Bibliography 500 words Hurdle requirement: Assessment must be passed Week 5 10% Critical Reflection Essay 2000 words Hurdle requirement: Assessment must be passed Week 9 50% Online exam 1500 words Hurdle requirement: Assessment must be submitted During the examination period 40% Hurdle requirement: 1. Attendance hurdle requirement: This subject has a minimum requirement of 80% attendance at tutorials, seminars, or workshops. There is an expectation that students attend lectures. Throughout the teaching period N/A Hurdle requirement: 2. Assessment hurdle requirement: All pieces of assessment must be submitted to pass the subject. Each submitted assessment must be complete, constitute a genuine attempt to address the requirements of the task. Throughout the semester N/A Additional details Late penalty requirement : Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at five per cent (5%) of the possible marks available for the assessment task per day or part thereof and will not be accepted after 20 University business days from the original assessment due date without written approval.