Indigenous Approaches of Designing for Cultural Wellness
HDIK671Z
Overview
To enrol in this unit, you must be accepted into a course from the provider.
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Level of study: What does Postgraduate mean?
Postgraduate
EFTSL: What does EFTSL mean?
0.125
Delivery Method: What does delivery method mean?
Fully Online
Prerequisites: What are the prerequisites?
No
Duration:
13 weeks
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Domestic student fee:
$2,300.00 (AUD)
International student fee:
$2,525.00 (AUD)
Description
This unit engages you in the construction of a cultural learning space that presents oral, visual and kinetic interactions as a basis for knowledge management and co-design. You will enact principle-based approaches to group inquiry and negotiated synthesis in design and the visual, oral and kinetic communication of shared understandings.
Enrolment Restriction
In order to enrol in this unit, you must be accepted into one of the following courses:
If you wish to seek approval to enrol in this unit without being accepted in a course, please contact OUA regarding the process.
Special Requirements
- Additional materials
- Broadband access
- Includes Placement — Field/work placement
Assessment
- Assignment 1 — Individual Project (25%)
- Assignment 2 — Co-Design Projects (45%)
- Journal — Sessional Dialogue Diary (30%)
Learning Outcomes
At the completion of this unit students will be able to:
- engage with the ontological features of Indigenous cultures and the relevance of these to design and society, history, culture, identity and the environment
- demonstrate a developed understanding of the ways in which Indigenous design structures cultural innovation
- demonstrate a gained experience of cultural innovation practices in design
- engage in practices that explicate and model visual oral and kinetic co-design and meta-design approaches
- demonstrate developed skills in co-design and meta-design and narrative analysis evaluations of these processes
- demonstrate developed conception of the wellbeing basis for co-design and cultural innovation.
Topics
This unit addresses the following topics.
| Number | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Indigenous knowledge principles |
| 2 | Dialogue group innovation and negotiated knowledge |
| 3 | Co-design meta design and cultural innovation |
Study Resources
This unit is delivered using the following methods and materials:
Instructional Methods
- Blogs
- Chat rooms
- Discussion Forum/Discussion Board
- Embedded Multimedia
- Interactive Games
- Online Quizzes/Tests
- Online assignment submission
- Podcasting/Lecture capture
- Standard Media
- Streaming Multimedia
- Web links
- Wikis
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Relevant Courses
This unit is part of a major, minor, stream or specialisation in the following courses:
This unit may be eligible for credit towards other courses:
- Many undergraduate courses on offer through OUA include 'open elective' where any OUA unit can be credited to the course. You need to check the Award Requirements on the course page for the number of allowed open electives and any level limitations.
- In other cases, the content of this unit might be relevant to a course on offer through OUA or elsewhere. In order to receive credit for this unit in the course you will need to supply the provider institution with a copy of the Unit Profile in the approved format, which you can download here. Note that the Unit Profile is set at the start of the year, and if textbooks change this may not match the Unibooks textbook list.
