Coming Into Community

• • Nidja Noongar Boodjar Noonook Nyining: This is Noongar Country you are sitting in – an introduction to this place
  • Ways of knowing, and ways of listening in
  • The craft of collaboration 1: ideas, skills and practices to get started with
  • Field trips: citizens in action
  • The craft of collaboration 2: joys, controversies, and the ‘work before the work’
  • Old and new technologies in the search for knowledge
  • Hospitality in academic work: openness to ideas and ‘the other’
  • Learning in action 1: Group presentations and peer review
  • Learning in action 2: Group presentations and peer review
  • Field trips round 2: coming into community
  • Bringing experience and knowledge together
  • Ending and then beginning again: a cycle of action, reflection and learning

• Study resources

  • Instructional methods

    • Discussion forum/Discussion Board

No eligibility requirements

Special requirements

No special requirements

Modern jobs need you to be skilled in working with people, whether in the commercial world, employed by government, doing things with community groups or taking care of the future of the globe. This unit gives you a chance to combine learning how to do well at university with the art of moving in and out of new communities and different workplaces. It asks people to look at different knowledge traditions (including Noongar) both on and off campus. 

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 (10%)
• Written Critique: Starting out - Initial Responses (1000 words) (20%)
• Reflective Essay (2000 words) (30%)
• Collaborative Project and Presentation (15 minutes) (40%)