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Contemporary Indigenous Australia
Enrolment code: HAB102
Offered: Launceston: semester 1, Hobart: semester 1, Distance education: semester 1
Provides a detailed introduction to contemporary Aboriginal socio-economic experience
on mainland Australia during the final decades of the 20th century. Issues addressed
include the extent of Aboriginal disadvantage; the experience of racism; aspects of
contemporary Aboriginal cultures; child welfare, health and education issues. All issues
are examined within the context of Indigenous self-determination. The unit highlights
both Aboriginal disadvantage and Aboriginal achievement.
Staff Mr D Foley, Assoc Prof I Green
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern int: 2 lectures and 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks); dist.ed: 2x3-hr classes in
Hbt & Ltn, 2x4-hr classes NWC, 1-hr volutary seminar weekly video-link to NWC
Assessment mode int: 1,000-word essay (15%), 1,500-word essay (35%), tutorial presentation
(10%), 2-hr exam (40%); dist.ed: 1,000-word essay (20%), 2,000-word essay (40%),
2-hr exam (40%)
Required texts etc
Unit Reader
Recommended texts etc
Broome R, Aboriginal Australians, ISBN 186373760X
Courses [R3A] [R3J]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Historical Indigenous Australia
Enrolment code: HAB103
Offered: Launceston: semester 2, Hobart: semester 2, Distance education: semester 2
Offers a general survey of Indigenous Australian societies and cultures from the earliest
times until the late 20th century. The unit begins with an introduction to Aboriginal
spirituality, social structure and economy before the British invasion. The remainder of the
unit examines the dispossession of the Aboriginal peoples from 1788 until the 1950s.
Topics include Aboriginal-explorer relations, colonial violence, Aboriginal resistance, and
government policies including segregation and protection. Attention is also given to the
competing ways in which Australian historians have represented Aboriginal history.
Staff Dr S Breen, Mr D Foley, Dr M Rolls
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern int: 2 lectures and 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks); dist.ed: 3x3-hr classes in
Hbt & Ltn, 2x4-hr classes NWC
Assessment mode int: 1,000-word essay (20%), 1,500-word essay (30%), tutorial presentation
(10%), 2-hr exam (40%); dist.ed: 1,000-word essay (20%), 2,000-word essay (40%),
2-hr exam (40%)
Required texts etc
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Henry Reynolds, The Other Side of the Frontier, Penguin, Melb, 1982
Unit Reader (contact the School for details)
Recommended texts etc
Broome R, Aboriginal Australians, ISBN 186373760X
Courses [R3A] [R3J]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Special Topic in Aboriginal Studies A
Enrolment code: HAB201 or HAB301
Offered: Launceston: semester 1, Hobart: semester 1, Distance education: semester 1
Special note: may be taken only with the approval of the Director of Riawunna
For students with a demonstrable capacity for independent research who have a specific
topic within the field of Aboriginal Studies that they wish to investigate. Entry to the unit
is at the discretion of the Riawunna Director. Students work closely together with an
appointed supervisor on a research project involving a structured reading program,
reporting to the class on work-in-progress and extensive analysis of and writing on the
topic under investigation. Students entering the unit need to be self motivated and
self-disciplined, and must possess advanced analytic skills. Note that this unit is mutually
exclusive with HAB220/320 Special Topic in Aboriginal Studies C.
Staff Dr S Breen
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 2-hr seminars fortnightly for internal students, together with scheduled
individual supervisory sessions
Prerequisites 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
Mutual exclusions HAB220/320
Assessment mode 5,000-word research paper
Majors HAB
Courses [R3A]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Special Topic in Aboriginal Studies B
Enrolment code: HAB202 or HAB302
Offered: Launceston: semester 2, Hobart: semester 2, Distance education: semester 2
Special note: may be taken only with the approval of the Director of Riawunna
See HAB201/301. Note that this unit is mutually exclusive with HAB220/320 Special
Topic in Aboriginal Studies C.
Staff Dr M Rolls
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 2-hr seminars fortnightly for internal students, together with scheduled
individual supervisory sessions
Prerequisites 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
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Mutual exclusions HAB222/320
Assessment mode 5,000-word research paper
Majors HAB
Courses [R3A]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Contemporary Indigenous Tasmania
Enrolment code: HAB206 or HAB306
Offered: Launceston: semester 2, Hobart: semester 2, Distance education: semester 2
Explores Tasmanian Aboriginal identity, the emergence of distinct Aboriginal
communities, and activism since the 1970s. Issues addressed include Aboriginal
socialisation processes; contemporary Tasmanian Aboriginal associations with the land;
the process of Aboriginal identity construction; contemporary attitudes to Aboriginal
identity and the privileged position of whiteness which gives power to the non-Aboriginal
community to determine and question Tasmanian Aboriginal identity, manifestations of
institutional prejudice, especially relations with the legal system; the level of access to
government services such as education, health, housing, and employment; the causes and
concerns of Aboriginal activism and the proliferation of Aboriginal political/ community
organisations; the impact of Aboriginal activism in both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal
Tasmania. The unit makes use of materials generated by Tasmanian Aborigines and
includes lectures by visiting Tasmanian Aborigines.
Staff Ms J Sabbioni
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern int: 2x1-hr lectures fortnightly, 1.5-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks) dist.ed:
2x3-hr classes in Hbt, Ltn
Prerequisites 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
Mutual exclusions HHB241/341, HGE230/330, HSP206/306
Assessment mode int: 1,000-word essay (10%), 2,000-word essay (40%), class participation
(10%), 2-hr exam (40%); dist.ed: 1,000-word essay (20%), 2,000-word essay (40%),
2-hr exam (40%)
Majors HAB HGE
Courses [R3A] [R3K]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Indigenous Justice Issues
Enrolment code: HAB208 or HAB308
Offered: not offered in 2002
Special note: may be taken as an elective
Engages students in a detailed study of Indigenous experience of Australian legal and
justice systems, and of the historical interaction between Indigenous and Australian law.
Contexts in which these themes are explored include Land Rights and Native Title,
criminal justice, Indigenous Dispute Settlement, and Indigenous ownership of intellectual
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and cultural property. Where appropriate, comparisons are drawn from the experience of
Indigenous people in other places.
Staff Dr M Rolls
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern int: 3x1-hr lectures fortnightly, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks); dist.ed: Ltn,
Hbt 3x3-hr classes; NWC 2x4-hr classes; Hbt internal students have 2-hr face-to-face
lecture once a week, and a 1-hr video-link lecturer the following week
Prerequisites 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
Mutual exclusions HSP211/311
Assessment mode int: 3,000-word essay (40%), tutorial and class participation (20%), 2-hr
exam (40%); dist.ed: 1,000-word essay (20%), 2,000-word essay (40%), 2-hr exam
(40%)
Required texts etc
Unit readers (contact School for details)
Majors HAB
Courses [R3A] [R3K]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Bass Strait Islanders
Enrolment code: HAB209 or HAB309
Offered: not offered in 2002
Special note: may be taken as part of a History major
Explores the post-invasion experience of Indigenous Tasmanians on Flinders and Cape
Barren Islands. Topics include: the role of conciliation policy, especially of GA Robinson,
in the Aboriginal dispossession; colonial portrayals and commemorations of Aborigines;
the post-invasion evolution of the Aboriginal Islander community; government policy,
missionary activity and scientific racism; the history of Islander activism; and enforced
and voluntary relocations to mainland Tasmania in the 1940s and 1950s. The unit develops
in students a working awareness of the idea of historical process, the ability to
conceptualise historical data, and the development of bias detection skills.
Staff Dr S Breen
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern Ltn: 1-hr lecture, 1.5-hr tutorial weekly dist.ed. Hbt: 4x2.5-hr study
sessions; dist.ed. Ltn & NWC: 3x3-hr study sessions.
Prerequisites 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
Mutual exclusions HAB204/304
Assessment mode int: 1,000-word essay (10%), 2,000-word essay (40%), class participation
(10%), 2-hr exam (40%); dist.ed: 1,000-word essay (20%), 2,000-word essay (40%),
2-hr exam (40%)
Required texts etc
Ryan L, The Aboriginal Tasmanians, ISBN 1863739653
Unit reader (contact School for details)
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Majors HAB HTA
Courses [R3A]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Indigenous Tourism
Enrolment code: HAB210 or HAB310
Offered: Launceston: semester 2, Distance education: semester 2
Special note: may be taken as part of the BTourism degree course
Explores Indigenous tourism in the contemporary Australian context. Taking a number of
case studies from various parts of the country, the unit applies a range of critical and
post-colonial theoretical perspectives to examine the role of tourism in respect of
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander self-determination and the compatibility of
Indigenous tourism with efforts to maintain the integrity of Indigenous cultural heritage.
Ethical issues pertaining to ownership, control and appropriation of Indigenous cultures
and territories are also considered in some detail, along with key aspects of cross-cultural
communication and education.
Staff Dr S Breen
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern int:1-hr lecture, 1.5-hr tutorial weekly; dist.ed: 3x4-hr classes in Hbt, Ltn
and NWC, (13 wks)
Prerequisites 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies or equiv (BTourism: HGT101 and
HGT102)
Assessment mode int: 1,000-word tutorial paper (20%), 2,000-word essay (30%), class
participation (10%), 2-hr exam (40%); dist.ed: minor essay (25%), major 2,000-word
essay (35%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Required texts etc
Unit reader(s) (contact School for details)
Majors HAB
Courses [R3A] [R3J]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Indigenous Health
Enrolment code: HAB213 or HAB313
Offered: Launceston: semester 1
Special note: available to nursing students as an elective
Statistics gathered over the last few decades have consistently shown the mortality rates of
Indigenous Australians far exceed those of the non-Indigenous population; indeed, some
50% of Indigenous Australians die before they reach the age of 50. This unit investigates
why this should be the case. The unit surveys the range of empirical research on
Australian Indigenous health matters, exploring the various conceptual and theoretical
frameworks that the research derives from and reflects on, and examining the impact of
the research on actual health care practices. The unit also looks at the differing constructs
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of health and well-being to be found in Indigenous and western cultures, the
consequences of these differences for Indigenous health in the post-colonial context and
the effectiveness of contemporary strategies which seek to reconcile both western and
Indigenous value-systems in the provision of health care and the training of health
professionals.
Staff Ms J Sabbioni
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 1 lecture, 2-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Assessment mode 1,000-word tutorial presentation (20%), 2,000-word essay (40%), 2-hr exam
(40%)
Required texts etc
Unit reader (contact the School for details)
Majors HAB
Courses [R3A] [OC]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Language in Aboriginal Society
Enrolment code: HAB214 or HAB314
Offered: Launceston: semester 1, Hobart: semester 1, Distance education: semester 1
Special note: may be of interest to students studying Asian or European language and culture or
education or social theory
Provides an understanding of the role of language in the construction of social identity
and the transmission of cultural values in Aboriginal societies. Issues for consideration
include: the nature and historical development of Indigenous Australian languages;
language affiliation and territoriality; language, semantics and ‘worldview’; kinship
terminology and social cohesion; socio-linguistic conventions (eg politeness and
avoidance); cross-cultural (mis)communication and the place of indigenous creoles (eg
Kriol) and Englishes. The unit also explores the effect of colonisation on Indigenous
language viability, and investigates the effectiveness of various strategies, especially
bilingual education, in stemming the loss of this rich linguistic heritage. Tasmanian
Aboriginal organisations involved in local language initiatives are invited to address the
class on their work. Students also engage directly in some language learning activities.
Staff Assoc Prof I Green
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern int: 2-hr workshop fortnightly, 1.5-hr tutorial weekly; dist.ed: 3x4-hr
classes in Hbt, Ltn and NWC
Prerequisites 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
Assessment mode int: tutorial presentation (10%), 1-000-word essay (15%), 2,000-word essay
(35%), 2-hr exam (40%); dist.ed: language assignment (10%), 1,000-word essay (15%),
2,000-word essay (35%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Required texts etc
Walsh M, Yallop C (eds), Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia, Aboriginal Studies
Press, Canb, 1993
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Majors HAB
Courses [R3A]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Special Topic in Aboriginal Studies C
Enrolment code: HAB220 or HAB320
Offered: Launceston: semesters 1 & 2, Hobart: semesters 1 & 2, Distance education:
semesters 1 & 2
Special note: may be taken only with the approval of the Director of Riawunna
See HAB201/301. Note, however, that this is a full-year 25% unit requiring a capacity for
extended research and that entry to the unit is strictly controlled. Note also that this unit is
mutually exclusive with both HAB201/301 Special Topic in Aboriginal Studies A and
HAB202/302 Special Topic in Aboriginal Studies B.
Staff Assoc Prof I Green
Unit weight 25%
Teaching pattern 2-hr seminars fortnightly for internal students, together with scheduled
individual supervisory sessions
Prerequisites 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
Mutual exclusions HAB201/301; HAB202/302
Assessment mode 10,000-word research paper. Eligibility to submit final paper is dependent
upon: meeting regularly with supervisor throughout the year; completion of
5,000-word draft of work-in-progress at the end of Semester 1; provision of regular
written reports/drafts to supervisor according to a negotiated schedule; satisfactory
progress with project, as reviewed with supervisor every half semester.
Majors HAB
Courses [R3A]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Aboriginal Women
Enrolment code: HAB232 or HAB332
Offered: not offered in 2002
Special note: may be taken as an elective
Provides students with an understanding of the roles, functions and status of women in
past and present Aboriginal societies from Aboriginal womens’ perspectives. Particular
areas of study include feminism and racism, gender politics, Aboriginal women and
power, and Aboriginal women and social issues.
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 3x1-hr lectures fortnightly, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prerequisites 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
Mutual exclusions HAF261/361
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Assessment mode 2,000-word essay (30%), 13-week journal (20%), tutorial participation
(10%), exam (40%)
Required texts etc
Unit reader (Contact Centre for information)
Majors HAB HAF
Courses [R3A]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Aboriginal Arts
Enrolment code: HAB240 or HAB340
Offered: Launceston: semester 2, Hobart: semester 2
Special note: may be taken as an elective
Provides a comprehensive exploration of Aboriginal art forms. Students develop an
understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal creative expression. They learn about the
significance of Aboriginal visual and aural expression to ‘traditional’ and contemporary
Aboriginal cultures and identity. This includes learning about the ‘traditional’ and
contemporary roles and functions of this expression. Apparent changes in Aboriginal
creative expression are also examined, including those brought about by the influence of
market forces. These are considered in the context of how any such changes have affected
the meaning, purpose and significance of artistic forms to Aboriginal peoples and their
cultures. The unit examines closely key issues relating to the production and marketing of
Aboriginal art forms, including the issues of copyright, reproduction, appropriation, and
postmodern and the post-conceptualist practice of ‘quotation’ and ‘translation’.
Staff Dr M Rolls
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 3x1-hr lectures fortnightly, 1-hr tutorial weekly; Hbt students have 2-hr
face-to-face lecture one week, and a 1-hr video-link lecture the following week
Prerequisites 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies or by negotiation
Assessment mode 3,000-word essay (40%), totorial presentation (20%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Required texts etc
Howard Morphy, Aboriginal Art, Phaidon, Lond, 1998
Majors HAB
Courses [R3A] [OC]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
International Indigenous Identity
Enrolment code: HAB241 or HAB341
Offered: Hobart: semester 1, Launceston: semester 1, Distance education: semester 1
Formerly titled ‘Indigenous Identity and Place’ this unit provides a comparative
investigation into indigenous concepts of identity and relationships to land. Drawing on
case studies from around the world, and paying close attention to the writings of
indigenous authors, the unit examines the ways in which indigenous peoples have
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struggled to maintain and adapt their own concepts of self in the face of colonisation and
increasing globalisation. In Hobart, and in distance education mode, the unit pivots
around four focus groups: the Tiwi of Northern Australia, the James Bay Cree of North
America, the Saami people of the Arctic, and the Karen people of Southeast Asia. In
Launceston the unit will look primarily to selected Australian and North American
studies.
Staff Dr A Onsman, Dr S Breen
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern int: 1-hr lecture, 1.5-hr tutorial weekly; dist.ed: 2x3-hr classes in Hbt, Ltn
(13 wks)
Prerequisites 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
Mutual exclusions HAB241/341 Indigenous Identity and Place
Assessment mode int: 1,000-word tutorial paper (20%), 2,000-word essay (30%), class
participation (10%), 2-hr exam (40%); dist.ed: 1,000-word essay (20%), 2,000-word
essay (40%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Required texts etc
Unit reader (Contact School for details)
Majors HAB
Courses [R3A]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Aboriginal Business
Enrolment code: HAB245 or HAB345
Offered: Hobart: semester 1, Launceston: semester 1
Surveys Aboriginal small business initiatives across the country, examining their economic
bases, and their socio-cultural functions, with a view to comparing the nature of
Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australian entrepreneurship. Critically considering
theoretical models developed with reference to Indigenous American and migrant vs
non-migrant business enterprise, and testing these on some specific Indigenous Australian
case studies, the unit seeks to identify how these need to be modified to accommodate
specific Australian factors.
Staff Mr D Foley
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern Hbt: 1-hr lecture weekly, 1.5-hr tutorial weekly; Ltn: 2-hr lecture
fortnightly, 1.5-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prerequisites 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
Assessment mode 1,000-word essay (15%), 2,000-word essay (35%), tutorial presentation
(10%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Required texts etc
Unit Reader
Majors HAB
Courses [R3A]
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Aboriginal Knowledges
Enrolment code: HAB246 or HAB346
Offered: Hobart: semester 2, Launceston: semester 2
Investigates arguments that Aborigines, and by extension Indigenous peoples in general,
employ modes of thought qualitatively different from those utilised by members of
western cultures. The unit critically examines a number of theoretical constructs (such as
essentialism, cultural relativism, Whorfian linguistic determinism) which might support
such arguments, and explores alternative models which provide for a more universalistic
approach to human cognition. Claims for unique Aboriginal, and Indigenous, modes of
thought are illustrated through, and tested against, detailed consideration of texts from
Indigenous authors, as well as a range of ethnographic and cognitive-anthropological
studies, and implications for the recognition in western academies of
Aboriginal/Indigenous research methodologies and paradigms are considered.
Staff Mr D Foley
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 2-hr lecture fortnightly, 1.5-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prerequisites 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
Assessment mode 1,000-word essay (15%), 2,000-word essay (35%), tutorial presentation
(10%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Required texts etc
Unit Reader
Majors HAB
Courses [R3A]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Aboriginal Education
Enrolment code: HAB247 or HAB347
Offered: Hobart: semester 2, Launceston: semester 2
Explores policy and practice (both historical and contemporary) in Aboriginal education in
Australia, and examines the effect of western education in Aboriginal societies with a view
to assessing both its ‘success’, i.e. in terms of purely academic goals, and its consequences
for the maintenance of Aboriginal cultural values. The unit considers a range of case
studies and theoretical models which critique notions of ‘education as assimilation’ and
‘education for self-determination’ and seeks to locate our understandings of Aboriginal
education within a broader construct of cultural co-existence and cultural diffusion. Issues
such as domain separation, culturally appropriate pedagogical practice and knowledge
custodianship are also canvassed, and provision is made for education practitioners to
apply their studies in the unit to the development of educational materials.
Staff Dr A Onsman
Unit weight 12.5%
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Teaching pattern 2-hr lecture fortnightly, 1.5-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prerequisites 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
Assessment mode 1,000-word essay (15%), 2,000-word essay (35%), tutorial presentation
(10%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Required texts etc
Unit Reader
Majors HAB
Courses [R3A]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Indigenous Life Histories
Enrolment code: HAB252 or HAB352
Offered: Launceston: semester 1, Hobart: semester 1, Distance education: semester 1
Pursues two related streams: an historical evidence stream, in which the focus is on
historical and thematic analysis of selected 20th-century personal and community histories
produced by Aboriginal writers; and an issues stream, in which several issues related to
the production of Aboriginal biography are examined.
Students use selected themes to investigate the various depictions of Aboriginal
experience presented in the texts. The selected texts focus on Western Australia and New
South Wales, and involve comparison and contrast of Aboriginal experience in the east
and west of the continent. The themes have been developed to reflect and access the
central concerns of Aboriginal biographers. They include living on the fringe, living place,
growing up, gender, identity, and family and community.
Staff Ms J Sabbioni
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern int: 3x1-hr lectures every second week, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks),
dist.ed: 3x3-hr classes monthly in Hbt, Ltn, NWC
Prerequisites 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
Mutual exclusions HHB252/352, HTA282/382
Assessment mode int: 1,000-word essay (15%), 2,000-word essay (35%), class participation
(10%), 2-hr exam (40%); dist.ed: 1,000-word essay (20%), 2,000-word essay (40%),
2-hr exam (40%)
Required texts etc
Morgan S, My Place, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1987
Langford R, Don’t Take Your Love to Town, Penguin, 1988
Nannup A, When the Pelican Laughed, Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1992
Majors HAB
Courses [R3A]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Dynamics of Indigenous Cultures
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Enrolment code: HAB253 or HAB353
Offered: not offered in 2002
Compares the extant cultures of a number of contemporary indigenous peoples from
around the globe, including the Cree, the Karen , the Tiwi and the Saami. The unit
examines the impact of colonisation upon the spiritual and social aspects of indigenous
lives. Particular emphasis will given to examining such concepts as Shamanism,
Totemism, Kinship Structures and Death and Burial Rituals. Opportunities to explore
related peoples or topics of personal interest are also included.
Staff Dr A Onsman
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern 1-hr lecture, 1.5-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prerequisites 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
Mutual exclusions HGA278/378
Assessment mode 1,000-word essay (20%), 2,000-word essay (30%), class participation (10%),
2-hr exam (40%)
Required texts etc
Unit Reader
Majors HAB
Courses [R3A] [S3T]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Dispossession in Tasmania
Enrolment code: HAB256 or HAB356
Offered: not offered in 2002
Covers the period from the earliest times of Indigenous occupation of Tasmania until the
end of the initial period of British colonisation. Issues considered include: the history of
Aboriginal interactions with the physical environment; debates about the impact of the
10,000-year, post-ice-age period of geographic isolation; British ideologies about
colonisation and race; relations between Aborigines and pre-invasion European sailors;
Aboriginal resistance to British invasion; and the conduct of the Black War. the unit
explores a variety of theoretical approaches to the study of the Indigenous past, mainly
from the discipline of History, but also drawing on geological, archaeological and
anthropological concepts and sources.
Staff Dr S Breen
Unit weight 12.5%
Teaching pattern Ltn: 1-hr lecture, 1.5-hr tutorial weekly dist.ed. Hbt: 4x2.5-hr study
sessions; dist.ed. Ltn & NWC: 3x3-hr study sessions.
Prerequisites 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
Mutual exclusions HAB255/355
Assessment mode int: 1,000-word essay (10%), 2-000-word essay (40%), class participation
(10%), 2-hr exam (40%); dist.ed: 1,000-word essay (20%), 2-000-word essay (40%),
2-hr exam (40%)
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Required texts etc
Ryan L, The Aboriginal Tasmanians, ISBN 1863739653
Unit Reader (contact School for details)
Majors HAB
Courses [R3A]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
Aboriginal Studies 4 (Honours)
Full time/Part time
Enrolment code: HAB400 or HAB401
Offered: Hobart: semesters 1 & 2 Launceston: semesters 1 & 2
Special note: full-time students enrol in HAB400 (100%), part-time students in HAB401 (50%);
individual units have notional weight, but for HECS purposes must be weighted at 0%
Is made up of the four components: (a) a coursework seminar in semester 1 called
‘Research Methodologies and Social Theory’, focusing on an intensive analysis of
Indigenous and western research methods and theory, and giving particular attention to
the formulation of theoretical positions, the uses of concepts, and the issue of objectivity;
(b) a coursework seminar in semester 1 called ‘Indigenous Culture and Country’, focusing
on spirituality, kinship and economy in the past and present in a range of places drawn
from Central Australia, the Kimberley, Torres Strait Island, Cape York and Arnhem Land;
(c) a course of supervised reading in semester 1 for full-time students or semester 2 of first
year for part-time students; (d) a thesis based on students’ own research, including regular
contact with an appointed supervisor and regular attendance at ‘Thesis Workshop’.
Staff Assoc Prof I Green (Coordinator), Dr S Breen, Dr M Rolls
Unit weight 100%/50%
Teaching pattern (a) 3-hr class fortnightly, with times and venues negotiated with students;
(b) as for (a); (d) Thesis Workshop
Prerequisites Major in Aboriginal Studies or cognate discipline, including satisfaction of the
Faculty GPA
Assessment mode (a)6,000-word essay, class participation, 2-hr exam in June (20%); (b) as for
(a); (c) 3,000-word independent research project (20%); (d) 15,000-word (max) thesis,
attendance at and reporting progress of research to Thesis Workshop (40%)
Courses [R4A]
Faculty website <http://www.arts.utas.edu.au/>
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University of Tasmania unit details
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