AIS4010

Research Methodology in Australian Indigenous Studies

(ART)

Liz Reed and Lynette Russell

12 points + 2-3 hours per week + First semester + Clayton + Prohibitions: KRS4010 (2000 and previously)

Synopsis: Methodologies appropriate to the writing of a dissertation. A study of theoretical and methodological issues involved in researching and writing Indigenous histories, including gender, race, ethnicity and class. Constructions of Aboriginality and discourses of Aboriginalism. Interdisciplinary approaches to knowing the past. Concepts of race in Australian scholarship.

Assessment: Oral presentation and written assignment (3000 words): 30% + Methodology paper (6000 words): 70%