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Ancient & Contemporary Indigenous Arts 2 (AIND20012)
Undergraduate level 2Points: 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 |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
This subject engages with Indigenous creative arts and cultural practices, with an emphasis on relational on country learning to enhance the student experience of Indigenous perspectives of place. There is focus on the significance of continuing, reclaiming and revitalizing Indigenous cultural and artistic practice in the context of ongoing settler colonialism. Students will reflect on their own positionality 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, participating in creative practice workshops to build their understanding of Indigenous creative and cultural practices.
The subject will provide opportunities for students to interact meaningfully with each other, and with Indigenous teaching staff and local Indigenous community members. Activities may include identifying, collecting and working with traditional technologies and materials from Country, and performative practices in whole class, small group and one to one activities. Following their immersive cultural experience, students will design a new creative project responding to knowledges shared during the intensive.
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
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- respond to the diverse Indigenous creative and cultural practices and relationship to place, focused in the south east of Australia;
- explain how Indigenous artists and communities are continuing, reclaiming and revitalising culture through creative practices;
- gather traditional materials from Country following cultural protocols;
- respectfully and responsibly respond to shared knowledges to produce a creative work;
- apply principles of cultural safety when developing and producing creative works;
- analyse own relationship to knowledges, technologies, place, creative and cultural practices shared in the intensive.
Last updated: 8 August 2023
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: 8 August 2023
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 |
|---|---|---|
Creative Works Portfolio - demonstrating the skills, techniques and materials learnt during On Country learning activities
| During the teaching period | 30% |
Written reflection in response to learning activities and the process of making creative works On Country
| 1 Weeks after the end of teaching | 10% |
Creative Project Design
| During the assessment period | 50% |
Creative Project Artist Statement
| During the assessment period | 10% |
| Hurdle requirement: On Country fieldtrip attendance and regular participation in group activities and discussions. | N/A |
Last updated: 8 August 2023
Quotas apply to this subject
Dates & times
- Summer Term
Coordinators Tiriki Onus and Lauren Gower Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 3 February 2020 Pre teaching requirements A short reading list will be released one week before intensive. Teaching period 10 February 2020 to 14 February 2020 Last self-enrol date 4 February 2020 Census date 10 February 2020 Last date to withdraw without fail 14 February 2020 Assessment period ends 24 February 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
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: 8 August 2023
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
There are no specifically prescribed or recommended texts for this subject.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Breadth Track Experiencing Indigenous Cultural and Creative Practices - 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
- 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: 8 August 2023