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Unit of Study HUM10310 - Learning from Country (2017)

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    This unit may be offered in a Session (13 weeks) or Study Period (7 weeks), please note if offered in a Study Period it will have a heavier estimated student workload per week. Please refer to the SCU Unit webpages for further information prior to enrolling.

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

  1. Indigenous knowledge as a process of relationship with Country
  2. Biodiversity and cultural diversity: the recognition of culture and cultural heritage within diverse environments
  3. Indigenous environmental and natural resource management and intellectual property rights in international and domestic law
  4. Rights and responsibilities within relationships with Country
  5. Urban land-based Indigenous Knowledge development
  6. International Indigenous perspectives on land-based Indigenous Knowledge
  7. Developing action from Indigenous Knowledge gained with Country.

N.B. Unit activities are supported by an interactive intranet site with which all students are required to engage throughout the session.

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Lismore Session 3 Session 3
Online Session 3 Session 3

Learning outcomes and graduate attributes

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:

GA1: Intellectual rigour, GA2: Creativity, GA3: Ethical practice, GA4: Knowledge of a discipline, GA5: Lifelong learning, GA6: Communication and social skills, GA7: Cultural competence
Learning outcome count Learning outcome description GA1 GA2 GA3 GA4 GA5 GA6 GA7
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.

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

  1. Engage in ethical and reciprocal relationships with Country through respectful action
    • GA5:
    • GA7:
  2. Analyse and assess Indigenous Knowledge that is synthesised through relationship with Country
    • GA2:
    • GA7:
  3. Identify and evaluate ways that land-based Indigenous Knowledge may be utilised by Indigenous peoples and others to action positive social outcomes.
    • GA2:
    • GA3:
    • GA7:

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.