Unit Synopsis
In this unit you examine Aboriginal cultures and their relationships with country and Land (Land is capitalised to reflect its differing meaning for Indigenous cultures and knowledge systems). You will learn and draw on Indigenous and non-Indigenous scholarship to explore differing cultural concepts of Land: culture and country. You will develop your understanding of Aboriginal beliefs, value and knowledge systems. You will learn the importance and use of theory from colonialism, settler colonialism, decolonisation and the cultural interface to deepen your understandings of Aboriginal culture and country.
Details
| Level | Undergraduate |
|---|---|
| Unit Level | 2 |
| Credit Points | 6 |
| Student Contribution Band | SCA Band 4 |
| Fraction of Full-Time Student Load | 0.125 |
| Pre-requisites or Co-requisites |
There are no pre-requisites for the unit.
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework). |
| Class Timetable | View Unit Timetable |
| Residential School | No Residential School |
Unit Availabilities from Term 1 - 2026
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes - in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Assessment Tasks
| Assessment Task | Weighting |
|---|---|
| 1. Written Assessment | 40% |
| 2. Written Assessment | 60% |
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%).
Past Exams
All University policies are available on the Policy web site, however you may wish to directly view the following policies below.
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of policies are available on the Policy web site .
Term 1 - 2023 : The overall satisfaction for students in the last offering of this course was 100.00% (`Agree` and `Strongly Agree` responses), based on a 31.82% response rate.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Source: SUTE Teacher Evaluations
Make sure feedback is clear and useable
Provide markers with clearer instructions on how to give useful feedback for assessment items.
Markers participated in a zoom workshop to clarify how to provide actionable feedback. This will take place before each assessment item is due to reinforce what is required.
Source: SUTE Evaluations
Unit is not enjoyable for some students
Investigate the unit and refresh those areas that may be contributing to low student satisfaction, mindful that the unit will be completely refreshed for 2024.
Some areas of the unit have been refreshed.
Source: SUTE evaluation
Provide students with the opportunity to research and write about First Nations people and connection to country in their particular area via assessment choices.
Add an additional assessment topic choice to allow for students to research and write about aspects of First Nations people and connection to country where they live.
In Progress
On successful completion of this unit, you will be able to:
- Explain Indigenous understandings of Land
- Place Indigenous culture and country in the context of the cultural interface post-colonisation (settler-colonial) history, social structure and race relations
- Analyse questions of identity, voice and power in the representation/silencing of Indigenous peoples’ perspectives on culture and country
- Evaluate political and social debates about Indigenous culture and country using a cultural interface perspective.
not applicable.
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • |
| 2 - Written Assessment | • | • | • | • |
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | |
| 1 - Communication | • | • | • | |
| 2 - Problem Solving | • | |||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | • | • | • | • |
| 4 - Information Literacy | • | • | ||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | • | • | ||
| 8 - Ethical practice | • | • | • | • |
| 9 - Social Innovation | • | • | ||
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 10 | |