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Urban Indigenous History (HIST30078)
Undergraduate level 3Points: 12.5On Campus (Parkville)
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
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Contact information
Semester 1
Email: julia.hurst@unimelb.edu.au
Overview
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The city is a dazzling and complex place. But who belongs in the city, and who has been excluded from its history? This subject explores how cities are sites for the production and consumption of Indigenous histories. It asks, first, what historical, political, cultural and Indigenous-led narratives have made the Australian city? And, second, how can we understand emerging urban Indigenous histories and identities? Case studies – of sites, objects and stories – will allow students to critically reflect and actively engage with Country and history. They include significant Indigenous sites and landmarks like the Blacktown Native Institute in Western Sydney and the relationship of Coranderrk to Melbourne. Students will explore how place-based narratives have been shaped by Indigenous and settler constructions of landscape, design and architecture, Indigenous-led storytelling, settler-history and truth-telling. They will ask how to better know Indigenous histories in urban places, using archives, storytelling and object-based learning.
Intended learning outcomes
On completion of this subject, students should be able to:
- Understand how historians relate and respond to the social, cultural and political landscape that informs urban Aboriginal history in Australia
- Demonstrate the ability to research Indigenous history according to best-practice ethical conventions and Indigenous-led methodological interventions
- Reflect critically on the knowledge and skills developed in the study of history, and on how these might be applied to scholarship, employment and citizenship
- Demonstrate the ability to research Indigenous history from Deep Time to Contemporary ways of knowing
- Engage with Indigenous-led research, theory and products.
Last updated: 31 January 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: 31 January 2024
Assessment
Description | Timing | Percentage |
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Tutorial presentation (10 minutes) on one of the set readings. A copy of presentation is to be submitted by the next weekly tutorial to allow for review of student's reflection on class discussion and critique.
| From Week 2 to Week 12 | 25% |
Research Essay
| Week 6 | 50% |
Reflective Essay on 'virtual sites' visited
| During the examination period | 25% |
Hurdle requirement: 1. Attendance hurdle requirement: This subject has a minimum requirement of 80% attendance at tutorials, seminars, or workshops. There is an expectation that students attend lectures | Throughout the teaching period | N/A |
Hurdle requirement: 2. Late Penalty and Assessment hurdle requirement: Assessment submitted late without an approved extension will be penalised at five per cent (5%) of the possible marks available for the assessment task per day or part thereof. All pieces of assessment must be submitted to pass the subject. Each submitted assessment must be complete, constitute a genuine attempt to address the requirements of the task and will not be accepted after 20 University business days from the original assessment due date without written approval. | Throughout the semester | N/A |
Last updated: 31 January 2024
Dates & times
- Semester 1
Principal coordinator Julia Hurst Mode of delivery On Campus (Parkville) Contact hours 30 hours: A 1.5 hour lecture every week for 12 weeks and a 1 hour tutorial every week for 12 weeks Total time commitment 170 hours Teaching period 26 February 2024 to 26 May 2024 Last self-enrol date 8 March 2024 Census date 3 April 2024 Last date to withdraw without fail 3 May 2024 Assessment period ends 21 June 2024 Semester 1 contact information
Email: julia.hurst@unimelb.edu.au
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Last updated: 31 January 2024
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Subject readings will be available online.
- Related Handbook entries
This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Course Bachelor of Arts - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Bachelor of Biomedicine
- Bachelor of Commerce
- Bachelor of Design
- 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 (Production)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Theatre)
- Bachelor of Fine Arts (Visual Art)
- Bachelor of Music
- 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: 31 January 2024