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

• • 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

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

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.

• 1000 words (20%)
• 2300 words (50%)
• 1200 words (30%)