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Ancient & Contemporary Indigenous Arts (AIND10003)
Undergraduate level 1Points: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
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About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Summer Term
For all administrative enquiries, e.g. enrolment, class registration, special consideration enquiries:
For all academic enquiries, e.g. assessment, subject matter enquiries:
Tiriki Onus: tiriki.onus@unimelb.edu.au
Lauren Gower: lauren.gower@unimelb.edu.au
Please refer to the LMS for up-to-date subject information, including assessment and participation requirements, for subjects being offered in 2020.
Overview
Availability(Quotas apply) | Summer Term |
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This subject engages with Indigenous creative arts and cultural practices through relational on Country learning. Students will reflect on their own positionality through creative practice and develop their capacity to act in a culturally safe manner to engage with Indigenous communities. Students will attend a 5 day off campus immersive cultural experience working with Indigenous lecturers, tutors and community members. Creative and cultural practice workshops will focus on the significance of continuing, reclaiming and revitalising Indigenous cultural and artistic practice in the context of ongoing settler colonialism. Activities include working with traditional technologies, and performative practices in whole class, small group and one to one activities. Following their immersive cultural experience, students will create a project brief utilising techniques, skills and materials shared throughout the intensive, and adapted into a reflective response to knowledges gained.
This subject has a fieldwork component. Students will undertake a 5 day visit to a location in Victoria to undertake creative practice learning activities on Country.
This subject will incur costs in addition to tuition fees.
These costs include:
- Transport Return V-Line ticket. Approximately $25 – $30 depending on location, student concession.
- Accommodation, food, materials, and transport during intensive. Approximately $450 – $500.
*Additional costs are subject to change.
This subject is developed and lead by Indigenous scholarship, pedagogies and knowledges in creative and cultural practices.
The subject is co-taught with First Nations people.
Intended learning outcomes
Upon completion of this subject students should be able to:
- explain, in the context of place, the diversity and history of Indigenous cultures and creative practices in south east Australia;
- describe the significance of Country to the continuation, reclamation and revitalisation of Indigenous cultural and creative practices;
- use materials and traditional Indigenous technologies from Country, following cultural protocols;
- apply principles of cultural safety in complex relational, intercultural experiences to develop creative works;
- critically reflect and recognise the role of unconscious bias embedded in structural privilege.
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Eligibility and requirements
Prerequisites
None
Corequisites
None
Non-allowed subjects
None
Inherent requirements (core participation requirements)
The University of Melbourne is committed to providing students with reasonable adjustments to assessment and participation under the Disability Standards for Education (2005), and the Assessment and Results Policy (MPF1326). Students are expected to meet the core participation requirements for their course. These can be viewed under Entry and Participation Requirements for the course outlines in the Handbook.
Further details on how to seek academic adjustments can be found on the Student Equity and Disability Support website: http://services.unimelb.edu.au/student-equity/home
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Assessment
Due to the impact of COVID-19, assessment may differ from that published in the Handbook. Students are reminded to check the subject assessment requirements published in the subject outline on the LMS
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Creative Works Portfolio - demonstrating the skills, techniques and materials learnt during On Country learning activities.
| During the teaching period | 30% |
Written reflection
| 1 Weeks after the end of teaching | 20% |
Creative Project
| During the assessment period | 50% |
Hurdle requirement: Fieldtrip attendance and regular participation in group activities and discussions. | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Additional details
Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at 10% per working day. In-class tasks missed without approval will not be marked. All pieces of written work must be submitted to pass this subject.
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- Summer Term
Coordinators Tiriki Onus and Lauren Gower Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 36 hours across 6 days Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 6 January 2020 Pre teaching requirements A short reading list will be released one week before intensive. Teaching period 13 January 2020 to 17 January 2020 Last self-enrol date 7 January 2020 Census date 13 January 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 17 January 2020 Assessment period ends 27 January 2020 Summer Term contact information
For all administrative enquiries, e.g. enrolment, class registration, special consideration enquiries:
For all academic enquiries, e.g. assessment, subject matter enquiries:
Tiriki Onus: tiriki.onus@unimelb.edu.au
Lauren Gower: lauren.gower@unimelb.edu.au
Time commitment details
170 hours
Additional delivery details
Quota
This subject has an enrolment quota of 30 students, and places are limited. Places will be allocated until the quota is reached. Enrolment in this subject is not guaranteed.
Last updated: 22 March 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Ancient and Contemporary Arts Practice Course book
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
- Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Arts
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- Bachelor of Environments
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Acting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Animation)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Dance)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Film and Television)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Music Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Music
- Bachelor of Science
- Links to additional information
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 22 March 2024