Back to Find Units Page

Unit of Study HUM10315 - Knowing with Community (2017)

Show me unit information for year

Unit Snapshot

  • Enrolment information

    N/A

Unit description

Bringing together community to develop and articulate community-based Indigenous Knowledge, this unit helps to narrate community reality. Respectful engagement with Indigenous Communities will make community-based knowledge visible, and allow this knowledge to be utilised to achieve successful outcomes as defined by and experienced by the members of those communities.

Unit content

The unit covers the following topics:

  1. Best practice in community engagement with examples from within Australia and internationally. Critical analysis of the nature and dynamics of community engagement in specific locations and community contexts, including professions or discipline areas.
  2. Long-term and sustainable processes that can be measured across a range of interconnected areas such as individual and community wellbeing, economic development and stability, resource security and socio-cultural sustainability.
  3. Indigenous Knowledge as a process that is developed in relationship with community
  4. Developing narratives that can represent community-based Indigenous Knowledge to other people.
  5. Rights and responsibilities within relationships with community
  6. Urban and rural community-based Indigenous Knowledge development
  7. International Indigenous perspectives on community-based Indigenous Knowledge
  8. Developing action from Indigenous Knowledge gained with community.

Availabilities

Location Domestic International
Lismore Session 2 Session 2
Online Session 2 Session 2

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 community through planning and implementing respectful action that will allow Indigenous Knowledge to flow from community
2 Analyse and assess Indigenous Knowledge that is synthesised through relationship with community
3 Identify and evaluate ways that community-based Indigenous Knowledge may be utilized 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 community through planning and implementing respectful action that will allow Indigenous Knowledge to flow from community
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
    • GA7:
  2. Analyse and assess Indigenous Knowledge that is synthesised through relationship with community
    • GA1:
    • GA4:
    • GA7:
  3. Identify and evaluate ways that community-based Indigenous Knowledge may be utilized by Indigenous peoples and others to action positive social outcomes.
    • GA1:
    • GA3:
    • GA7:

Prescribed learning resources

Prescribed Texts
  • No prescribed texts.

Prescribed Learning Resources may change in future Teaching Periods.