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| Location | Domestic | International |
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| Online |
Unit Summary
Unit type
PG Coursework Unit
Credit points
24
Faculty/College
Unit aim
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
- Indigenous knowledge as a relationship with Country
- Biodiversity and cultural heritage within diverse environments
- Indigenous natural resource management and responsibilities
- Intellectual property rights and relationships with Country
- International Indigenous perspectives on land-based Indigenous Knowledge
- Developing action from Indigenous Knowledge gained with Country.
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: | |
|---|---|
| 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:
- Engage in ethical and reciprocal relationships with Country through respectful action
- Analyse and assess Indigenous Knowledge that is synthesised through relationship with Country
- Identify and evaluate ways that land-based Indigenous Knowledge may be utilised by Indigenous peoples and others to action positive social outcomes.
Prescribed texts
- No prescribed texts.