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Unit description

Accessing Indigenous Knowledge is facilitated through building relationships between students and Country.  When people respectfully fulfil their responsibilities to care for Country, Country gives back land-based, contextual knowledge. Indigenous voices from around the globe will highlight priorities and directions to applying land-based knowledge into action in our local environments.

Unit content

Module 1:  Indigenous knowledge as a relationship with Country

Module 2:  Cultural diversity

Module 3:  Indigenous natural resource management and relational responsibilities

Module 4:  Indigenous intellectual property rights and Indigenous knowledge?

Module 5:  International Indigenous perspectives on land-based Indigenous Knowledge

Module 6:  Developing action from relationship with Country

 

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:
1Engage in ethical and reciprocal relationships with Country through respectful action
2Analyse and assess Indigenous Knowledge that is synthesised through relationship with Country
3Identify and evaluate ways that land-based Indigenous Knowledge may be utilised by Indigenous peoples and others to action positive social outcomes.

On completion of this unit, students should be able to:

  1. Engage in ethical and reciprocal relationships with Country through respectful action
  2. Analyse and assess Indigenous Knowledge that is synthesised through relationship with Country
  3. Identify and evaluate ways that land-based Indigenous Knowledge may be utilised by Indigenous peoples and others to action positive social outcomes.

Teaching and assessment

Notice

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Fee information

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