abs3rab reading aboriginality
READING ABORIGINALITY FROM FRONTIER TO TODAY
ABS3RAB
Not currently offered
Credit points: 15
Subject outline
In this subject students will be given the opportunity to engage critically with writing about Australian Aboriginal experience of colonization from the frontier to today. Through the works of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal writers of letters, pamphlets, life writing, fiction, poetry and drama students discover the diversity of interpretations of Aboriginal cultures and historical experience. Key themes of concern including identity, place, voice and culture will be explored through historical and literary analysis, including the study of changing national contexts which Aboriginal people experienced as the regimes of the protection, assimilation and self-determination eras.
SchoolSchool of Humanities & Social Sciences
Credit points15
Subject Co-ordinatorJennifer Jones
Available to Study Abroad StudentsYes
Subject year levelYear Level 3 - UG
Exchange StudentsYes
Subject particulars
Subject rules
Prerequisites completion of a second year History or English subject
Co-requisitesN/A
Incompatible subjectsN/A
Equivalent subjectsN/A
Special conditionsN/A
Learning resources
Readings
| Resource Type | Title | Resource Requirement | Author and Year | Publisher |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Readings | Coonardoo | Prescribed | Pritchard, Katherine Susannah | Angus and Robertson |
| Readings | Is that you, Ruthie? | Prescribed | Heggarty, Ruth | UQP |
| Readings | My Place | Prescribed | Morgan, Sally | Freemantle Arts Centre for Experts |
| Readings | Sorry | Prescribed | Jones, Gail | UQP |
| Readings | That Dead Man Dance | Prescribed | Scott, Kim | Picador |
| Readings | We of the Never Never | Prescribed | Gunn, Jeanie | Hutchinson |
Graduate capabilities & intended learning outcomes
01. Assess the balance of continuity and change in a past, and show how present contexts, including their own, can alter views of a past
- Activities:
- One 1000 word tutorial paper and one 2000 word essay, one 1 hour exam on lecture and tutorial content
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
- Writing(Writing)
- Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)
- Ethical & Cultural Awareness(Ethical & Cultural Awareness)
- Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
02. Identify and reflect on the use of primary sources, the student's own, and other historians'
- Activities:
- One 1000 word tutorial paper and one 2000 word essay, one 1 hour exam on lecture and tutorial content
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
- Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
- Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)
- Writing(Writing)
- Ethical & Cultural Awareness(Ethical & Cultural Awareness)
03. Reflect on strengths and weaknesses of other historians' accounts or of the historiography when constructing their own historical account.
- Activities:
- One 1000 word tutorial paper and one 2000 word essay, one 1 hour exam on lecture and tutorial content
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
- Ethical & Cultural Awareness(Ethical & Cultural Awareness)
- Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)
- Writing(Writing)
- Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
04. Review disciplinary skills in the context of a sustained history inquiry directed to a specific audience.
- Activities:
- One 1000 word tutorial paper and one 2000 word essay, one 1 hour exam on lecture and tutorial content
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)
- Writing(Writing)
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
- Ethical & Cultural Awareness(Ethical & Cultural Awareness)
- Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
05. Write responses to an aspect of the past which offer a sustained line of argument or narrative, referenced in an accomplished manner, which respond to many secondary and primary sources.
- Activities:
- One 1000 word tutorial paper and one 2000 word essay, one 1 hour exam on lecture and tutorial content
- Related graduate capabilities and elements:
- Creative Problem-solving(Creative Problem-solving)
- Ethical & Cultural Awareness(Ethical & Cultural Awareness)
- Inquiry/ Research(Inquiry/ Research)
- Writing(Writing)
- Critical Thinking(Critical Thinking)
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