Handbook : Unit informationEdith Cowan University

Faculty of Education and Arts

School: Kurongkurl Katitjin

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• Unit Title

  Regional Studies: Nyoongar

• Unit Code

  ACS1122

• Year

  2015

• Enrolment Period

  1

• Version

  2

• Credit Points

  15

• Full Year Unit

  N

• Mode of Delivery

  On Campus
  Online

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Description

This unit provides a multidisciplinary overview of Aboriginal life, experiences and knowledge in the south west of Western Australia, in the past and present. It includes traditional Nyoongar culture, history and language, cultural change, politics, Nyoongar identity and issues confronting Nyoongars today.

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

1. Analyse the Nyoongar experience of missions, reserves and settlements, including their long term effects on Nyoongar life.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of Nyoongar cultural change, including the agents instrumental to producing and resisting change.
3. Describe the impact of social and economic change and the initiatives of the Nyoongar to reinstate their self worth and identity today.
4. Describe the traditional Nyoongar culture and their world.
5. Give an interpretation of Nyoongar activities in the south west of Western Australia pre-invasion.
6. Outline Nyoongar history 1826 to the present.

Unit Content

1. Effective Indigenous leadership across a variety of managerial and organisational settings.
2. Generations of Nyoongars and their experiences, from 1826 to the present.
3. Government policies and the impact of Nyoongar cultural and social change.
4. Nyoongar traditional culture and their world.
5. The historical approaches to explaining Aboriginal occupation of south western Australia.

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, tutorial presentations, independent study, online discussion board.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant Board of Examiners.

Text References

• ^ Host, J., & Owen. (2009). It's still in my heart, this is my country - The single Noongar claim history. Crawley: Australia. University of Western Australia Press.
• Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission, (2007). Bringing them home; Education module. Sydney: Australia. Human Rights & Equal Opportunity Commission.
• Babidge, S. (2010). Aboriginal family and the state: The conditions of history. Burlington: USA. Ashgate Publishing Co.
• Host, J., & Owen, C. (2009). It's still in my heart, this is my country: The single Noongar claim history. Perth: Australia. UWA Press.
• Curthoys, A., Genovase, A., & Reilly, A. (2008). Rights and redemption: History, law and Indigenous people. Coogee: Australia. UNSW Press.
• Doohan, K. (2008). Native title Australia, Western Australia, Australia, Kimberley: Making things come good: Relations between Aborigines and miners at Argyle. Backroom Press.
• Pascoe, B. (2007). Convincing ground: Learning to fall in love with your country. Canberra: Australia. Aboriginal Studies Press.
• Rowse, T. (2012). Rethinking social justice: From "peoples" to "populations". Canberra: Australia. Aboriginal Studies Press.
• Attwood, B. (2010). Telling the truth about aboriginal history. Allen & Unwin.
• Broome, R. (2002). Aboriginal Australians: Black responses to white dominance 1788-2001, (3rd ed.). Crows Nest, NSW: Allen & Unwin.

^ Mandatory reference

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