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Contemporary Indigenous Australia
Enrolment code: HAB102
Offered: Ltn: sem 2, Hbt: sem 2, dist.ed: sem 2
Unit description:
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: Dr M Rolls (Coordinator), Ms J Sabbioni
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: int: 2x1-hr lectures and 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks); dist.ed: 3x3-hr
classes in Hbt & Ltn, 2x3-hr classes NWC, 1-hr weekly video-link to NWC
Assess: 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%), 1,500-word essay (40%), 2-hr exam
(40%)
Required: Unit Reader (contact Riawunna for details)
Recommend: Broome R, Aboriginal Australians, ISBN 186373760X
Courses: [R3A] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Historical Indigenous Australia
Enrolment code: HAB103
Offered: Ltn: sem 1, Hbt: sem 1, dist.ed: sem 1
Unit description:
Offers a general survey of Indigenous Australian societies and cultures from the earliest
times until the mid-20th century. The unit begins with an introduction to Aboriginal
spirituality, social structure and economy before the British invasion, then 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.
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Staff: Ms J Gough (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: int: 2x1-hr lectures and 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks); dist.ed: 3x3-hr
classes in Hbt & Ltn, 1-hr weekly video-link to NWC, 2x3-hr classes in NWC
Assess: 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%), 1,500-word essay (40%), 2-hr exam
(40%)
Required: Henry Reynolds, The Other Side of the Frontier, Penguin, Melb, 1982
Unit Reader (contact Riawunna for details)
Recommend: Broome R, Aboriginal Australians, ISBN 186373760X
Courses: [R3A] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Special Topic in Aboriginal Studies A
Enrolment code: HAB201/301
Offered: Ltn: sem 1, Hbt: sem 1, dist.ed: sem 1,
Special note: enrolment requires Riawunna approval
Unit description:
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 Riawunna. 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: Ms J Sabbioni, Ms M Walter
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: regular seminars and individual supervision
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
M.excl: HAB220/320
Assess: 5,000-word research paper
Majors: Aboriginal Studies
Courses: [R3A] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
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Special Topic in Aboriginal Studies B
Enrolment code: HAB202/302
Offered: Ltn: sem 2, Hbt: sem 2, dist.ed: sem 2,
Special note: enrolment requires Riawunna approval
Unit description:
See HAB201/301. 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: regular seminars and individual supervision
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
M.excl: HAB220/320
Assess: 5,000-word research paper
Majors: Aboriginal Studies
Courses: [R3A] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Contemporary Indigenous Tasmania
Enrolment code: HAB206/306
Offered: not offered in 2003
Special note: may be taken as part of the Police Studies major, or as an elective in other courses
Unit description:
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; 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 M Walter
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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
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
M.excl: HHB241/341, HGE230/330, HSP206/306
Assess: int: 1,000-word essay (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: Unit Reader (contact Riawunna for details)
Majors: Social Ecology
Courses: [R3A] [R3K] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Indigenous Justice Issues
Enrolment code: HAB208/308
Offered: Ltn: sem 1, Hbt: sem 1, dist.ed: sem 1
Special note: may be taken as part of the Police Studies major, or as an elective in other courses
Unit description:
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
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; Ltn internal students have 2-hr face-to-face lecture
every second week, and a 1-hr video-link lecturer in the intervening week
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies or equiv
M.excl: HSP211/311
Assess: 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: Unit readers (contact Riawunna for details)
Majors: Aboriginal Studies
Courses: [R3A] [R3K] OC:
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Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Bass Strait Islanders
Enrolment code: HAB209/309
Offered: Ltn: sem 2 dist.ed: sem 2
Special note: may be taken as part of a History major
Unit description:
Explores the post-invasion experience of Indigenous Tasmanians on Flinders and Cape
Barren Islands. Topics include: 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: regular 2 or 3-hr study
sessions at Hbt, Ltn and NWC
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
M.excl: HAB204/304
Assess: int: 1,000-word essay (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: Ryan L, The Aboriginal Tasmanians, ISBN 1863739653
Unit Reader (contact Riawunna for details)
Majors: History
Courses: [R3A] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Indigenous Tourism
Enrolment code: HAB210/310
Offered: not offered in 2003
Special note: may be taken as part of the BTourism degree course
Unit description:
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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: 1-hr lecture, 1.5-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies or equiv (BTourism: HGT101 and HGT102)
Assess: 1,000-word tutorial paper (20%), 2,000-word essay (30%), class participation (10%),
2-hr exam (40%)
Required: Unit Reader(/s) (contact Riawunna for details)
Majors: Aboriginal Studies
Courses: [R3A] [R3J] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Indigenous Health
Enrolment code: HAB213/313
Offered: Ltn: sem 2
Special note: available to nursing students as an elective
Unit description:
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 is the case. The unit surveys the range of empirical research on Australian
Indigenous health matters, explores the various conceptual and theoretical frameworks
that the research derives from and reflects on, and examines the impact of the research on
actual health care practices. The unit also considers the differing constructs 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%
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Teaching pattern: 1-hr lecture, 1.5-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies or equiv
Assess: 1,000-word tutorial presentation (20%), 2,000-word essay (40%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Required: Unit Reader (contact Riawunna for details)
Majors: Aboriginal Studies
Courses: [R3A] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Language in Aboriginal Society
Enrolment code: HAB214/314
Offered: not offered in 2003
Special note: may be of interest to students studying Asian or European language and culture or
education or social theory
Unit description:
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
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies or equiv
Assess: 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: Walsh M & Yallop C (eds), Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia,
Aboriginal Studies Press, Canb, 1993
Majors: Aboriginal Studies
Courses: [R3A] OC:
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Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Inter-cultural Communication
Enrolment code: HAB215/315
Offered: Hbt: sem 2, Ltn: sem 2, dist.ed: sem 2 [by web]
Special note: may be taken as an elective
Unit description:
Essential to an understanding of key contemporary social issues, eg reconciliation,
multi-culturalism, ethno-political conflict, globalisation, is an appreciation of the barriers
to effective and appropriate inter-cultural communication. This unit seeks to provide such
an appreciation, drawing on a variety of analytic approaches to the nature of cultural
difference and with reference to a range of case-studies (from Aboriginal Australia, Asia,
Indigenous America and Europe) in culture contact and (mis)communication. Issues
examined in the course include: politeness and respect; control of knowledge and
discourse organization; information seeking; key cultural concepts and their
translatability; maintaining cultural and linguistic diversity in post-colonial contexts;
gender-based communicative differences within and across cultures. Strategies for
addressing inter-cultural communication problems will also be investigated, with
particular reference to tourism and the media.
Staff: Assoc Prof I Green
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: Hbt & Ltn int: 1.5-hr lecture and 1-hr tutorial weekly; dist.ed: web-based
+ 2x3-hr study sessions in Hbt, Ltn & NWC
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies or equiv
Assess: int: 1,000-word essay (20%), 2,000-word essay (30%), class presentation (10%), 2-hr
exam (40%); dist.ed: 1,000-word essay (20%), 2,000-word essay (30%), 500-word literature
response (online) (10%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Required: Unit Reader (contact Riawunna for details)
Majors: Aboriginal Studies
Courses: [R3A] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Special Topic in Aboriginal Studies C
Enrolment code: HAB220/320
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Unit details [HAB]
Offered: Ltn: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2, Hbt: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2, dist.ed: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2,
Special note: enrolment requires Riawunna approval
Unit description:
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: Ms M Walter, Ms J Sabbioni
Unit weight: 25%
Teaching pattern: regular seminars and individual supervision
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
M.excl: HAB201/301; HAB202/302
Assess: 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; and provision of regular written reports/drafts
to supervisor according to a negotiated schedule
Majors: Aboriginal Studies
Courses: [R3A] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Aboriginal Women
Enrolment code: HAB232/332
Offered: Ltn: sem 1, Hbt: sem 1
Special note: may be taken as a Women’s Studies unit; may be taken as an elective
Unit description:
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.
Staff: Ms J Sabbioni, Ms M Walter
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 3x1-hr lectures fortnightly, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
M.excl: HAF261/361
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Assess: 2,000-word essay (30%), 13-week journal (20%), tutorial participation (10%), exam
(40%)
Required: Unit Reader (contact Riawunna for details)
Majors: Women<sqt>s Studies
Courses: [R3A] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Aboriginal Arts
Enrolment code: HAB240/340
Offered: Ltn: sem 2, Hbt: sem 2,
Special note: may be taken as an elective
Unit description:
Provides a comprehensive exploration of Aboriginal art forms. Students develop an
understanding and appreciation of Aboriginal creative expression and of Aboriginal
visual and aural expression in ‘traditional’ and contemporary Aboriginal cultures and
identity. 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 also examines 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; Ltn students have 2-hr
face-to-face lecture every second week, and a 1-hr video-link lecture in the intervening
week
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies or equiv
Assess: 3,000-word essay (40%), tutorial presentation (20%), 2-hr exam (40%)
Required: Howard Morphy, Aboriginal Art, Phaidon, Lond, 1998
Majors: Aboriginal Studies
Courses: [R3A] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
International Indigenous Identity
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Unit details [HAB]
Enrolment code: HAB241/341
Offered: not offered in 2003
Special note: may be taken as an elective
Unit description:
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
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 S Breen
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: int: 1-hr lecture, 1.5-hr tutorial weekly
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies or equiv
M.excl: HAB241/341 Indigenous Identity and Place
Assess: int: 1,000-word essay (20%), 2,000-word essay (30%), class participation (10%), 2-hr
exam (40%)
Required: Unit Reader (Contact Riawunna for details)
Majors: Aboriginal Studies
Courses: [R3A] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Aboriginal Knowledges
Enrolment code: HAB246/346
Offered: not offered in 2003
Unit description:
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
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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: tba
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2-hr lecture fortnightly, 1.5-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies
Assess: 1,000-word essay (15%), 2,000-word essay (35%), tutorial presentation (10%), 2-hr
exam (40%)
Required: Unit Reader (contact Riawunna for details)
Majors: Aboriginal Studies
Courses: [R3A] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Aboriginal Education
Enrolment code: HAB247/347
Offered: not offered in 2003
Special note: may be taken as an elective
Unit description:
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’, ie 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 constructs 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: Ms C Andersen (Coordinator)
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: 2-hr lecture fortnightly, 1.5-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks)
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies or equiv
Assess: 1,000-word essay (15%), 2,000-word essay (35%), tutorial presentation (10%), 2-hr
exam (40%)
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Required: Unit Reader (contact Riawunna for details)
Majors: Aboriginal Studies
Courses: [R3A] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Indigeneity, Citizenship and the State
Enrolment code: HAB248/348
Offered: Hbt: sem 2, Ltn: sem 2 [by web], dist.ed: sem 2 [by web]
Special note: may be taken as part of a Sociology major; may be taken as an elective
Unit description:
Explores the nexus between public policy, citizenship and the social positioning of
Indigenous Australians. The unit focuses on the role and place of Aboriginal people in
historical and contemporary constructs of Australian citizenship. It also examines the
emerging debates on the social, political and economic definitions and re-definitions of
citizenship. Topics discussed include: power relations and Indigenous political and social
rights; Indigenous and non-Indigenous understandings of citizenship; citizenship,
reconciliation and Indigenous self-determination; and the shift in welfare policy to the
‘new’ contractualism. A range of illustrative case studies will be explored, and
comparisons will be made with the situation of other Fourth World Indigenous peoples.
Staff: Ms M Walter
Unit weight: 12.5%
Teaching pattern: Hbt int: 1x1.5-hr lecture weekly, 1xl-hr tutorial weekly; Ltn int:
web-based lectures + 1xl-hr tutorial weekly; dist.ed: web-based + 2x3-hr study sessions in
Hbt, Ltn & NWC
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies or equiv
Assess: int: 1,000-word essay (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: Peterson N & Sanders W (eds), Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing
Conceptions and Possibilities, CUP, Melb, 1998
Majors: Sociology
Courses: [R3A] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Indigenous Life Histories
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Unit details [HAB]
Enrolment code: HAB252/352
Offered: not offered in 2003
Special note: may be taken as an elective
Unit description:
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 autobiography 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 autobiographers. The themes 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 fortnightly, 1-hr tutorial weekly (13 wks), dist.ed:
3x3-hr classes monthly in Hbt, Ltn, NWC
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies or equiv
M.excl: HHB252/352, HTA282/382
Assess: 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: Unit Reader (contact Riawunna for details)
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: Aboriginal Studies
Courses: [R3A] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Dispossession in Tasmania
Enrolment code: HAB256/356
Offered: Hbt: sem 1, Ltn: sem 1, dist.ed: sem 1
Special note: may be taken as an elective
Unit description:
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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 draws 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 Hbt: 2-hr lecture fortunightly,
1.5-hr tutorial weekly; dist.ed: (Hbt, Ltn, NWC) 4x2-hr study sessions
Prereq: 25% at level 100 in Aboriginal Studies or equiv
M.excl: HAB255/355
Assess: int: 1,000-word essay (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: Ryan L, The Aboriginal Tasmanians, ISBN 1863739653
Unit Reader (contact Riawunna for details)
Majors: Aboriginal Studies
Courses: [R3A] OC:
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
Aboriginal Studies 4 (Honours)
Full time/Part time
Enrolment code: HAB400/401
Offered: Hbt: (fy) ie sem 1 & 2, Ltn: (fy) ie sem 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%
Unit description:
Consists of 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; (/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
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Unit details [HAB]
Strait, 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: Dr S Breen (Coordinator), 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
Prereq: major in Aboriginal Studies or cognate discipline, including satisfaction of the
Faculty GPA
Assess: (/a) 6,000-word essay and class participation (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%)
Required: contact Riawunna for details
Courses: [R4A]
Faculty website: <www.arts.utas.edu.au>
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