Undergraduate - UnitATS2584 - Australia's black history

This unit entry is for students who completed this unit in 2015 only. For students planning to study the unit, please refer to the unit indexes in the the current edition of the Handbook. If you have any queries contact the managing faculty for your course or area of study.

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6 points, SCA Band 1, 0.125 EFTSL

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Level	Undergraduate
Faculty	Faculty of Arts
Organisational Unit	History
Offered	Not offered in 2015
Coordinator(s)	Dr Rani Kerin

Synopsis

This unit 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 Aborigines; Aboriginal depopulation; Aborigines' responses to colonialism; government policy and practice, from segregation to assimilation; and Aboriginal political movements. The unit 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.

Outcomes

Upon successful completion of this subject students will be able to:

Demonstrate an understanding relations between indigenes and Europeans in Australia.
Demonstrate an understanding of the epistemological issues and problems evident in the study of Australian Aboriginal History.
Think critically and communicate effectively. Specifically to:

develop a topic for investigation
show an awareness of both the diversity of interpretations of the past, and the nature of such forms of knowledge
familiarise oneself with a range of sources
display precision in argument and documentation
recognise and be able to present a logically ordered argument.

Assessment

Within semester assessment: 75%
Exam: 25%

Workload requirements

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. A unit requires on average three/four hours of scheduled activities per week. Scheduled activities may include a combination of teacher directed learning, peer directed learning and online engagement.