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Unit of Study HUM73001 - Aboriginal Community Organisations: Ethics and Sustainability (2017)

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  • Enrolment information

    External students are required to attend a four day compulsory residential school for this unit.

Unit description

Investigates the origins, development and governance of Aboriginal organisations to create safe and effective working environments within Aboriginal communities. Students will explore resistance, difference and knowing, to describe the eco-ethical roots of Indigenous cultures while examining concepts of social sustainability.

Unit content

Topic 1: Aboriginal Corporations Policy

Topic 2: Organisational Cultures

Topic 3: Governance

Topic 4: The Community and the Organisation

Topic 5: Sustainability at the Margins

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Not currently available in 2017

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 summarise the different demands and constraints that influence Indigenous practice in work, administration and organisational behaviour
2 critically analyse the differences between implicit cultural and community approaches and imposed administrative and business expectations in organisations
3 synthesise the differences in outcomes through co-design of solution spaces within cross-cultural business and organisational practice.

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

  1. summarise the different demands and constraints that influence Indigenous practice in work, administration and organisational behaviour
    • GA1:
    • GA6:
  2. critically analyse the differences between implicit cultural and community approaches and imposed administrative and business expectations in organisations
    • GA1:
    • GA6:
  3. synthesise the differences in outcomes through co-design of solution spaces within cross-cultural business and organisational practice.
    • GA1:
    • GA2: