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Unit Summary
Unit type
UG Coursework Unit
Credit points
12
Faculty/College
Unit aim
Establishes a critical understanding of the social and cultural struggle experienced by Aboriginal generations. Students critically evaluate assumptions about Aboriginal people and communities as a basis for analysis of social control, cultural imposition and the cost of dominion.
Unit content
Topic 1: Social Design, Regard and Disregard
Topic 2: Resistance and Progress Myths
Topic 3: Costs of Marginalisation and Social Determinants
Topic 4: Causation Health and Causation Health Enquiry
Topic 5: An Equitable Evidence Base
Topic 6: Methodological Diversity, Evidence Synthesis and Situation Analysis
Learning outcomes
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: | |
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| 1 | summarise the origins and classify the significance of self-image and the images of others within contexts of domination, marginalisation and social change |
| 2 | demonstrate an understanding of the impact on the Aboriginal community of different forces in modern Australian society that shape position, regard and the ability to exist with confidence and power. |
| 3 | analyse attitudinal manipulations as a political device in a media rich world and explain the conservative power of self-image and self-regard in Australian society |
| 4 | Critique the principles of social determination and identify relevant social issues and community contexts that impact on the health and well-being of Aboriginal people. |
On completion of this unit, students should be able to:
- summarise the origins and classify the significance of self-image and the images of others within contexts of domination, marginalisation and social change
- demonstrate an understanding of the impact on the Aboriginal community of different forces in modern Australian society that shape position, regard and the ability to exist with confidence and power.
- analyse attitudinal manipulations as a political device in a media rich world and explain the conservative power of self-image and self-regard in Australian society
- Critique the principles of social determination and identify relevant social issues and community contexts that impact on the health and well-being of Aboriginal people.
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.