ATS3584 · The Indigenous history of modern Australia

Overview

In this unit, you will consider relations between Indigenous and non-Aboriginal people in Australia since 1770. The main topics will include the legal basis of British sovereignty; the nature of frontier contact; violence and the dispossession of Aboriginal people; Aboriginal depopulation; Aboriginal people's responses to colonialism; government policy and practice, from segregation to assimilation; and Aboriginal political movements. You will simultaneously examine the political and theoretical dimensions associated with representing the Australian Aboriginal past and, in particular, the relationship between power and knowledge in historical discourses.

Areas of study: History Human rights Indigenous Studies

Offerings

Assessment

The Handbook does not list a final examination among the assessment items. That is not a guarantee there is none.

Within semester assessment: 100%

Assessment details may change. Please refer to the assessment information in Moodle closer to the start of the teaching period.

Requisites

The Handbook lists no prerequisite, corequisite or prohibition for this unit.

Learning outcomes

1. Critically analyse relations between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples in Australia.
2. Evaluate the epistemological issues and problems evident in the study of Australian Aboriginal History.
3. Interpret historical documents, placing them in their wider historical context and assessing their nature and value
4. Construct an original argument drawing evidence from a range of sources

Workload

Minimum total expected workload to achieve the learning outcomes for this unit is 144 hours per semester typically comprising a mixture of scheduled learning activities and independent study. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.

Student experience, not official rules. Nothing here changes what the Handbook says.