AIS2080

Native Title: Approaches, Issues, Debates (6 points)

(ARTS)

Leader: Stephen Pritchard

Offered:
Clayton Second semester 2004 (Day)
Clayton Second semester 2005 (Day)

Synopsis:

Objectives: Upon completion of this units students will be able to: 1. Describe and critically compare both orally and in writing the major shifts in approaches to native title and land rights. 2. Evaluate the prevailing attitudes which dominate current thinking about native title from a range of disciplinary perspectives, including law, history, anthropology and archaeology. 3. Understand the importance of native title and land rights to social justice and reconciliation. 4. Critically analyse legal, political and historical representations of native title and understand their relationship to debates concerning the cultural politics of representation and self-determination. 5. Demonstrate both orally and in writing an understanding of native title debates in terms of historical and contemporary relations between Indigenous peoples and the law.

Assessment: Oral seminar presentation: 10% + Short expository exercise related to the seminar presentation (1500 words): 20% + Essay (3000 words): 70%

Contact Hours: 2 hours (1 x 2 hour seminar) per week

Prerequisites: First year sequence or permission of coordinator

Prohibitions: AIS2030/3030