First Peoples in a Global Context (INDG10002)

This subject will provide students with an introduction to the complexity, challenges and richness of Australian Indigenous life and cultures. This subject gives students an opportunity to encounter Australian Indigenous knowledges, histories and experiences through interdisciplinary perspectives. Across three thematic blocks - Indigenous Knowledges, Social and Political Contexts and Representation/Self- Representation - this subject engages contemporary cultural and intellectual debate. Social and political contexts will be considered through engagement with specific issues and a focus on Indigenous cultural forms, which may include literature, music, fine arts, museum exhibitions and performance, will allow students to consider self representation as a means by which to disrupt and expand perceptions of Aboriginality.