First Nations and Justice
UndergraduateGRF-CCJ3312025
Course information for 2025 intake
- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
- 100% online
- Enrol by
- 25 May 2025
- Entry requirements
- Prior study needed
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 2 June 2025,
- 1 Dec 2025
- Price from
- $2,124
- Upfront cost
- $0
- Loan available
- HECS-HELP and FEE-HELP available
First Nations and Justice
About this subject
After successfully completing this subject you should be able to:
- Identify and examine Indigenous perspectives of justice; the criminal justice system; and criminology.
- Critically analyse the role of the criminal justice system and the discipline of criminology in settler-colonial Australia.
- Critically analyse how justice programs, policies, and practices impact First Nations peoples. Distinguish approaches that are culturally-informed and strengths-based.
- Be conversant with the range of positions in relation to First Nations justice.
- Reflect and evaluate your position of Indigenous issues, particularly in relation to your career aspirations.
- Introduction to Indigenous Perspectives;
- Indigenous Perspectives: Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing, the impact of the criminal justice system;
- Indigenous Perspectives: First Nations and Criminology
- Political Determinants: Sovereignty and Self-determination
- Political Determinants: Governance
- Social Determinants: Holistic and strengths-based approaches
- Cultural Determinants: Connection to Kinship & Family
- Cultural Determinants: Connection to Culture
- Cultural Determinants: Connection to Country
- Individual Determinants: Social and Emotional Well-Being
- Individual Determinants: Program delivery - pedagogies and learning styles in systems
This subject provides a critical reflection on issues currently facing First Nations peoples, in Australia and globally, in achieving justice. Students will be exposed to Indigenous perspectives on justice through Indigenous-authored research that allows the lived experiences of First Nations people to be heard. Using a strengths-based approach, the course provides students to consider the intersections of history, culture and justice in the ways we have responded and should respond to crime.
- Portfolio Part 1 (30%)
- Online Quiz (20%)
- Portfolio Part 2 (50%)
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Entry requirements
Others
This is not an introductory subject, it is a third year subject. You must have a basic understanding of the first year criminology subjects.
Students who have completed more than 2 OUA units (GPA 4.0+) and are planning on completing the Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice are strongly encouraged to enrol in the degree. Part of this process will involve registering your study plan with Griffith University, which will help to ensure that you are studying the required units.
Additional requirements
No additional requirements
Study load
- 0.125 EFTSL
- This is in the range of 10 to 12 hours of study each week.
Equivalent full time study load (EFTSL) is one way to calculate your study load. One (1.0) EFTSL is equivalent to a full-time study load for one year.
Find out more information on Commonwealth Loans to understand what this means to your eligibility for financial support.
What to study next?
Once you’ve completed this subject it can be credited towards one of the following courses
Bachelor of Criminology and Criminal Justice
UndergraduateGRF-CCJ-DEG
UndergraduateGRF-ART-DEG
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