| Effective Term: | 2024/05 |
| Institute / School : | Institute of Education, Arts & Community |
| Unit Title: | Indigenous History (1788-1967) |
| Unit ID: | INDSL1001 |
| Credit Points: | 15.00 |
| Prerequisite(s): | Nil |
| Co-requisite(s): | Nil |
| Exclusion(s): | (BAXDC1002 and INDOL1002) |
| ASCED: | 090311 |
| Other Change: | |
| Brief description of the Unit |
This unit is designed to enable students to describe and define the patterns of contact between European and Indigenous societies from the moment of British invasion in 1788 until the 1967 referendum. The unit examines and evaluates government policies in relation to Indigenous people in Australia throughout this period and explores the motivations and actions of both Indigenous and non-Indigenous people in Indigenous/non-Indigenous relations. The unit also appraises the scale and nature of contact and conflict between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Australia and evaluates the differing attitudes of present-day historians, politicians and other public commentators towards this period in Australia’s settler-colonial history. |
| Grade Scheme: | Graded (HD, D, C, P, MF, F, XF) |
| Work Experience Indicator: |
| No work experience |
| Placement Component: | |
| Supplementary Assessment:No |
| Supplementary assessment is not available to students who gain a fail in this Unit. |
| Course Level: |
| Level of Unit in Course | AQF Level(s) of Course | | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | | Introductory | | |  | | | | | Intermediate | | | | | | | | Advanced | | | | | | |
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| Learning Outcomes: |
| Knowledge: |
| K1. | Explore themes of conflict, conciliation and mediation in Australian historiography |
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| K2. | Identify and consider basic research methods and approaches associated with Australian Indigenous historiography |
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| K3. | Describe and distinguish key theoretical perspectives, positions and debates in Australian Indigenous historiography |
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| Skills: |
| S1. | Engage in historical analysis of both primary and secondary materials |
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| S2. | Locate, evaluate and utilise peer-reviewed materials in the humanities and social sciences |
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| S3. | Appraise key concepts, theories, issues and debates in Indigenous history |
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| Application of knowledge and skills: |
| A1. | Engage sensitively and respectfully with historical and contemporary debates concerning Australian Indigenous history |
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| A2. | Apply relevant conceptual and theoretical frameworks to issues and debates in Australian Indigenous historiography |
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| A3. | Communicate an understanding of key theories and concepts in Indigenous history at an introductory level |
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| Unit Content: |
•History, historiography and Indigenous Australia
•Cross-cultural encounters: Patterns of early contact
•Contact and conflict on the moving frontier
•Indigenous resistance to settler-colonial invasion
•Missions and reserves: Hope and frustration
•Race, racism and expanding frontiers
•Whitefella work: Indigenous labour and mixed economies
•Indigenous responses to the Civilising Mission
•Under the Act (government policy)
•The fight for formal equality
•More than citizens: The fight for Indigenous rights
•The unfinished business of reconciliation |
| Graduate Attributes: |
| | Learning Outcomes Assessed | Assessment Tasks | Assessment Type | Weighting | | 1. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2, A3 | Reflective activities responding to unit content and materials | Reflective journal | 25–40% | | 2. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2, A3 | Draft introduction and summaries of sources to be utilised for research paper or poster | Introduction and summaries | 20–35% | | 3. | K1, K2, K3, S1, S2, S3, A1, A2, A3 | Academic paper or poster on a topic or question related to unit content | Research paper or poster | 35–45% |
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