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Indigenous Studies

Graduate Diploma in ArtsSpecialisation (formal)Year: 2025

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Overview

Indigenous Studies is a value-driven program guided by the principles of interdisciplinarity, intellectual exchange, and social relevance. Indigenous Studies offers students perspectives on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander histories and culture. Subjects offered reflect the rich diversity of the field. Themes include contemporary Indigenous cultural production, key thinkers and concepts, Settler and Indigenous environmental ethics, Aboriginal women and coloniality, and issues relating to land, law and philosophy.

Intended learning outcomes

See program objectives

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Last updated: 27 February 2025

Structure

100 credit points

Duration: 1 year full-time / 2 years part-time

 

The Graduate Diploma in Arts in this area of specialisation requires:

  • two compulsory subjects (25 points)
  • two core subjects (25 points)
  • four elective subjects (50 points)

 

Total 100 points

 

Please note: students can only take 12.5 points of subject at first-year level in this program.

 

Subject Options

Compulsory Subjects

25 points

Code Name Study period Credit Points
INDG40001 Indigenous First Principles
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
INDG40002 Reading Indigenous Australia Not available in 2025 12.5

 

Core Subjects

25 points

Please note: Students cannot take more than 12.5 points at first-year level

Code Name Study period Credit Points
INDG10001 Indigenous Australia
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
INDG10002 First Peoples in a Global Context
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
INDG20001 Indigenous Treaties and Titles
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
INDG20002 Indigenous People & Ecological Collapse
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
INDG30001 Being Indigenous in the 21st Century
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
INDG30002 Indigenous Cultural Heritage
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
INDG30003 On Country, On Campus: Wurundjeri
Summer Term (On Campus - Parkville)
Winter Term (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5

 

Elective Subjects

50 points

Code Name Study period Credit Points
INDG20003 Aboriginal Women: Activism & Leadership Not available in 2025 12.5
INDG20004 Racial Literacy: Indigeneity & Whiteness Not available in 2025 12.5
AIND20011 Indigenous Art and Changing the Nation
Semester 2 (Online)
 12.5
INDG30004 Aboriginal Writing Not available in 2025 12.5
AHIS30005 Contemporary Aboriginal Art
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
LING20009 Language in Aboriginal Australia
Semester 1 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
MULT20008 Australian Indigenous Politics
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
MULT30017 Australian Indigenous Public Policy Not available in 2025 12.5
MULT30022 Indigenous Engineering and Design
Semester 2 (On Campus - Parkville)
 12.5
GEOG30025 Biogeography and Ecology of Fire
Summer Term (Off Campus)
 12.5

Links

http://arts.unimelb.edu.au/culture-communication

Last updated: 27 February 2025