Indigenous Knowledge and Global Contexts
HDIK670Z
Overview
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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
Presenting alternative perspectives on history and development and introducing you to diverse approaches to knowledge formation. In this unit you will engage in principle-based communication frameworks that support design interrogations of identity, developmental reality and human rights and introduce dialogic conceptions of human communication.
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.
Assessment
- Group Project — Negotiated Group Statement (30%)
- Online Discussion — Weekly Dialogue Diary blog (30%)
- Presentation — Final Project, Presentation (40%)
Learning Outcomes
At the completion of this unit students will be able to:
- engage with knowledge of Indigenous history, culture and identity
- demonstrate a developed understanding of the ways in which Indigenous history, culture and identity have been constructed throughout colonisation
- discuss through a developed understanding the ways in which Indigenous Knowledge speaks back re-articulating history, culture and identity
- engage in Indigenous dialogue and relational approaches to communication design that foster human rights approaches to negotiating difference
- demonstrate development of introductory skills in narrative analysis and communication design inquiry and how these can be employed to reveal power relations and demonstrate embedded inequities in social and informational contexts
- discuss the concept of relational responsibility through dialogue as a basis for social healing.
Topics
This unit addresses the following topics.
| Number | Topic |
|---|---|
| 1 | Australian Indigenous knowledge and the history of colonial social design |
| 2 | Indigenous knowledge principles |
| 3 | Dialogue cultural innovation and negotiated knowledge |
| 4 | Design possibilities for human and environmental rights education |
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
Textbook information for this unit is currently being updated and will be available soon. Please check back regularly for updates. Alternatively, visit the Unibooks website and enter the unit details to search for available textbooks.
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.
