Coming Into Community

• • 1: Nidja Noongar Boodjar
  • 2: Mapping where we are
  • 3: Moving in and out of places, communities and cultures
  • 4: Road Trip 1
  • 5: The Academy: moving into the university community
  • 6: Getting underway with writing
  • 7: Creativity, music and connection
  • 8: Moving into community through fiction and creative writing
  • 9: Co-operation, collaboration & being together
  • 10: Road trip 2
  • 11: Turning inward
  • 12: Boordawan

No eligibility requirements

Special requirements

No special requirements

Working with people often demands sophisticated skills and artfulness and this unit takes seriously the task of coming into a place, listening, learning, and working collaboratively. This unit will introduce you to ideas and practices that foster the clear thinking, relational maturity and ethical strength required whether working with others locally or internationally, in community-based settings, in government, business and many other contexts. The unit draws on a variety of knowledge traditions, beginning with Noongar katitj (Noongar knowledge systems), particularly in relation to the Murdoch University campus. You will learn by “doing and experiencing” on campus and further afield, and if you are an external student, we have a number of plans for bringing these experiences to you in some virtual ways, as well as to give you some tasks and ideas for experiential learning where you are.

The learning experiences of this unit also provide a transition into important practices for university life, including writing, thinking, reading, viewing, research, and collaborative work.

Please Note: All students studying at Murdoch University will need to complete the compulsory unit, Murdoch Academic Passport (MAP100), which only takes 2-3 hours to complete online. Find out more: http://goto.murdoch.edu.au/MurdochAcademicPassport.

• Participation (15%)
• Reference List (10%)
• Short Essay (20%)
• Quiz 1 (5%)
• Creative Piece (20%)
• Learning Journal (20%)
• Final Quiz (10%)

Current study term: 29 Aug 21 to 28 Nov 21