Things that Matter: the Material Culture of Australia's Past

• Topics

  • A week-by-week guide to the topics you will explore in this unit will be provided in your study materials

• Study resources

  • Instructional Methods

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

Entry Requirements

You must have successfully completed the following subject(s) before starting this subject:

USA-ABT15-Aboriginal People, History and Colonialism
and
USA-ABT27-Segregation and Resistance: Aboriginal People and Government
and
USA-ABT26-Forging a Nation: Australian History 1920-Present
and
USA-ABT13-Aboriginal Cultures

Others

One of the three group subjects plus the common prerequisites listed above, or approval of the Subject Coordinator.

Special requirements

No special requirements

The student will demonstrate advanced understanding through the application of knowledge and reflection in authentic problem solving in modern material culture analysis, theory and practice in material culture, Indigenous material culture, historical archaeology, ethics and sensitivities, online material culture, interpretation of material culture, cross-disciplinary methodologies and material culture of different places of meaning.

• Assignment 1 - 1000 words (20%)
• Assignment 2 - 2300 words (50%)
• Assignment 3 - 1200 words (30%)

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.