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Unit description
This unit assists students to Respectfully engage with Country and community to build reciprocal relationships through which knowledge emerges. Country is a vital place that we inhabit and it also exists inside as a model for being human in a proper way. During a compulsory 4-day residential workshop students model reciprocal relationships growing their understanding that Country is alive and intelligent providing everything that it's people need.
Unit content
Topic 1: Indigenous Knowledge as a process of relationship with Country
Topic 2: Biodiversity and cultural diversity: the recognition of culture and cultural heritage within development of Indigenous Research
Topic 3: Indigenous environmental and natural resource management
Topic 4: The impact of Intellectual property rights in international and domestic law
Learning outcomes
Unit Learning Outcomes express learning achievement in terms of what a student should know, understand and be able to do on completion of a unit. These outcomes are aligned with the graduate attributes. The unit learning outcomes and graduate attributes are also the basis of evaluating prior learning.
| On completion of this unit, students should be able to: | |
|---|---|
| 1 | develop a model for engaging in ethical and reciprocal relationships with Country |
| 2 | analyse and assess the relationships through which Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other Indigenous Knowledge emerges from Country |
| 3 | identify and evaluate ways that Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other Indigenous Knowledge from Country may be used to action positive outcomes for community and Country |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- develop a model for engaging in ethical and reciprocal relationships with Country
- analyse and assess the relationships through which Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other Indigenous Knowledge emerges from Country
- identify and evaluate ways that Aboriginal, Torres Strait Islander and other Indigenous Knowledge from Country may be used to action positive outcomes for community and Country
Teaching and assessment
Fee information
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