Undergraduate MUR-COD301-2021
Indigenous Community Development
$1,100 $1,350
Your upfront cost: $0
Duration
13 weeks
Study method
100% online
Available loans
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Assessments
Subjects may require attendance
Prior study
Not required
Study terms
- 30 Aug 2021
This research-based university in Perth has a strong interdisciplinary focus and a reputation for outstanding teaching and ground-breaking research. With more than 22,000 students and 2,000 staff from over 90 countries, and campuses in Dubai and Singapore, Murdoch embraces free thinking, shared ideas and knowledge to make a difference, and Open Universities Australia is certainly part of that.
QS RANKING 2021
28
Times Higher Education Ranking 2021
29
Subject details
On successful completion of the subject:
- students will be contribute to weekly online discussions related to the range of contextual factors that shape different forms of community work with Indigenous communities
- students will be able to draw upon a range of genres and cultural forms used by Indigenous groups to tell their stories of community-driven initiatives, understand the ways in which legislation and policy, audience, institutional context, history and practice form impacts on their lives.
- students will be able to prepare a digital ‘story’ to pitch the merits of a community-based project in an Indigenous community.
- students will be able to carry out desk-top research and write a short essay on at least three Indigenous conceptual devices used in community practice. bibliography designed to review the importance of story in community.
- students will participate in one ‘on-country’ (off campus) and ‘online’ field trip, visiting a community development project that involves Indigenous people.
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- The subject introduces students to the task of working in conjunction with Indigenous Australian communities. It begins with an examination of the history of ‘outsider’ responses (including legislation, policy and practice) to the lives of Indigenous communities. This is contrasted with an exploration of a range of ways (including autobiography, film, visual arts, theatre, song and oration) Indigenous groups articulate community stories, needs and solutions. In addition, students will be introduced to a range of Indigenous language conceptual devices that have been used to shape ‘community-controlled’ work.
No eligibility requirements
Special requirements
No special requirements
Introduces students to work with Indigenous Australian communities. It begins with an examination of the history of ‘outsider’ responses (including legislation, policy and practice) to the lives of Indigenous communities. This is contrasted with an exploration of different ways (including autobiography, film, visual arts, theatre, song and oration) Indigenous groups articulate community stories, needs and solutions. In addition, students will be introduced to some of the Indigenous language conceptual devices that have been used to shape ‘community-controlled’ 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.
- Workshop participation (10%)
- Verbal pitch of a project (20%)
- Digital photobook + Reflective Essay (35%)
- Invigilated Exam – Indigenous conceptual devices and community development practice (35%)
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