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IND102 - Aboriginal Australian Stories and Songlines

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2021 unit information

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Last updated: 4 June 2021

Enrolment modes:

Trimester 1: Cloud (online)

Trimester 2: Cloud (online)

 

Credit point(s):1
EFTSL value:0.125
Unit Chair:Trimester 1: Jessamy Gleeson
Trimester 2: Jessamy Gleeson
Cohort rule:

Nil

Prerequisite:

Nil

Corequisite:

Nil

Incompatible with:

Nil

Typical study commitment:

Students will on average spend 150-hours over the trimester undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.

Scheduled learning activities - cloud:

1 x 1-hour weekly lecture per week and 1 x 1-hour interactive collaborate session per week

Content

This unit examines Aboriginal Australian storytelling methods across a variety of historical and contemporary mediums: oral storytelling, paintings and artwork, film, television music, dance, literature, and online spaces. Indigenous people continue to actively re/produce and recite stories that explore Indigenous histories in time, the relationship between stories, songlines and Country, the impact of colonization on storytelling and cultural production, and how stories act as forms of resistance and resilience.

The unit deconstructs understandings of Indigenous stories and story production as being ‘traditional’, ‘historical’, and ‘contemporary’ by examining how stories are told and retold across spans of times and through different forms of medium. It also considers the broader social discourses within which contemporary Indigenous stories are re/produced, received, and read and how different mediums act as a counter balance for story narratives.

ULO These are the Learning Outcomes (ULO) for this unit. At the completion of this unit, successful students can: Deakin Graduate Learning Outcomes
ULO1 Analyse and discuss cultural awareness of the significant role of historical and contemporary Aboriginal storytelling practices

GLO1: Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO2: Communication

GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO2

Explain key complexities of Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander society and culture precolonisation and how that shapes contemporary media productions

GLO1: Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO2: Communication

GLO3: Digital literacy 

GLO4: Critical thinking 

GLO5: Problem solving

GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO3

Identify and examine the key structural components of stories across different mediums and cultures

GLO1: Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO3: Digital literacy

GLO4: Critical thinking  

GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO4 Identify and explain the connectedness of stories across different mediums: artwork, song, dance, film, television, and online spaces

GLO1: Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO2: Communication

GLO5: Problem solving

GLO8: Global citizenship

ULO5 Analyse and discuss how contemporary Aboriginal expressions of stories can challenge and resist Western narratives of colonisation

GLO1: Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities

GLO4: Critical thinking 

GLO8: Global citizenship

These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year.

Assessment

 
Assessment Description Student output Grading and weighting
(% total mark for unit)
Indicative due week
Assessment 1 (Group) - Presentation  1000 words or equivalent (or 10 minutes) 20% Week 4
Assessment 2 - Case study review 1500 words 40% Week 9
Assessment 3 - Story telling analysis 1500 words or equivalent 40% Week 12

The assessment due weeks provided may change. The Unit Chair will clarify the exact assessment requirements, including the due date, at the start of the teaching period.

Learning Resource

There is no prescribed text. Unit materials are provided via the unit site. This includes unit topic readings and references to further information.

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