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Ancient & Contemporary Indigenous Arts (AIND10003)
Undergraduate level 1Points: 12.5On Campus (Southbank)
Please refer to the return to campus page for more information on these delivery modes and students who can enrol in each mode based on their location in first half year 2021.
About this subject
- Overview
- Eligibility and requirements
- Assessment
- Dates and times
- Further information
- Timetable(opens in new window)
Contact information
Please refer to the specific study period for contact information.
Overview
| Availability(Quotas apply) | June |
|---|---|
| Fees | Look up fees |
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
On 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: 17 April 2021
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: 17 April 2021
Assessment
| 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
| 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 |
Last updated: 17 April 2021
Quotas apply to this subject
Please refer to the Return to Campus page for information on subject delivery modes in First Half Year 2021 (including Summer Term and Semester 1).
Dates & times
- June
Coordinator Tiriki Onus Mode of delivery On Campus (Southbank) Contact hours 36 hours across 6 days Total time commitment 170 hours Pre teaching start date 21 June 2021 Pre teaching requirements A short reading list will be released one week before intensive. Teaching period 28 June 2021 to 2 July 2021 Last self-enrol date 22 June 2021 Census date 28 June 2021 Last date to withdraw without fail 9 July 2021 Assessment period ends 16 July 2021
Additional delivery details
Quota
This subject has an enrolment quota of 30 students per availability, and places are limited. Places will be allocated until the quota is reached. Enrolment in this subject is not guaranteed.
Last updated: 17 April 2021
Further information
- Texts
Prescribed texts
Ancient and Contemporary Arts Practice subject book
- Off-campus study
This subject has a field work component
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.
- Incidental costs
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.
- 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 (Production)
- 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: 17 April 2021