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Last updated: 4 March 2022
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Students will on average spend 150-hours over the trimester undertaking the teaching, learning and assessment activities for this unit.
1 x 1-hour weekly class per week and 1 x 1-hour interactive online seminar per week
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. Aboriginal people continue to actively re/produce and recite stories that explore our histories in time, the relationship between stories, songlines and Country, the impact of colonisation on storytelling and cultural production, and how stories can act as forms of resistance and celebration.
This unit deconstructs understandings of our stories and storytelling practices as being either ‘historical’ or ‘contemporary’ by investigating how stories are told and retold across spans of times, and through different mediums. It also considers the broader social discourses within which contemporary stories are re/produced, received, and read, and the importance and impact of different mediums in storytelling practices.
Co-construct respectful relationships within group processes in a collaborative and culturally responsive manner to virtually analyse and discuss key storytelling practices in Aboriginal songlines
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilitites
GLO2: Communication
GLO3: Digital Literacy
GLO7: Team Work
GLO8: Global Citizenship
Identify and explain the significance of key Aboriginal storytelling practises across spans of time, and how these practices shape and transform the medium through which they are told
GLO1: Discipline-specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO5: Problem solving
GLO8: Global citizenship
Analyse and discuss how contemporary Aboriginal expressions of stories can resist and subvert Western narratives of colonisation.
GLO4: Critical thinking
Critically analyse and contextualise contemporary stories celebration, and the significance and impact of these stories within the student's life
GLO1: Discipline specific knowledge and capabilities
GLO6: Self-management
These Unit Learning Outcomes are applicable for all teaching periods throughout the year.
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.
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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