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Contemporary Aboriginal Issues
Undergraduate | USA-ABT14 | 2020
Course information for 2020 intake
Weigh in on the criminal justice system, native title and the Stolen Generations. Look at ways that we can go about protecting Aboriginal heritage. Register the historical and contemporary issues that continue to affect Indigenous Australians.
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed,
- No prior study
- Duration
- 13 weeks
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Contemporary Aboriginal Issues
About this subject
At the completion of this subject students will be able to:
- identify social and political situations which impact on the lives of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
- identify ways in which global situations have influenced the history of Australian race relations
- explore the impact of colonisation on Aboriginal people
- examine the perspectives as expressed by Aboriginal groups on contemporary issues.
- A Royal Commission in Focus: Contemporary Aboriginal Issues
- The 'Stolen Generation'
- Race, Racism and Representation
- Aboriginal Peoples and the Criminal Justice System
- Aboriginal Youth and the Juvenile Justice System
- Aboriginal Health and Wellbeing
- Aboriginal Peoples and Education
- Aboriginal Peoples and Australia's Economy
- Self-determination
- Protecting Aboriginal Heritage
- Land Rights
- Terra Nullius to Native title
- Reconciliation: What is the movement?
Students will develop broad understanding and knowledge of historical and contemporary issues that have and still impact on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. Students will explore social justice and human rights, reconciliation, diversity of Aboriginal social and political situations, Australian racism, power and powerlessness, employment, health, housing, Indigenous Australians and the criminal justice system, stolen generations, media, native title and sovereignty and self-determination.
- 1500 words (Take-home exam) (45%)
- 300 words (20%)
- 5-7 mins of spoken word equiv (35%)
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