Comparative Indigenous Studies

• Topics

  • Indigenous studies (3 topics)
  • Australia (5 topics)
  • North America (5 topics)
  • New Zealand (5 topics)

• Study resources

  • Instructional Methods

    • Disscusion forum/Discussion Board
    • Embedded Multimedia
    • Online assignment submission
    • Podcasting/Leacture capture
    • Streaming Multimedia
    • Standard Media

No eligibility requirements

Special requirements

No special requirements

Students will build on their knowledge of impacts of and responses to colonisation by First Nations peoples in North America, Australia and the Pacific region through exploration and analysis of approaches to comparative studies, pre-colonial cultures, colonialism, culture and ideology, diversity of social, economic and political structures, racism, assimilation, resistance, poverty, land rights, sovereignty and treaties and contemporary political movements.

• 750 words (15%)
• 1500 words (35%)
• 2250 words (50%)

Textbooks are subject to change within the academic year. Students are advised to purchase their books no earlier than one to two months before the start of a subject.