Indigenous Australians: Everybody's Business
UndergraduateGRF-GBS3102025
Course information for 2025 intake
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- Study method
- 100% online
- Assessments
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- Enrol by
- 26 Oct 2025
- Entry requirements
- No ATAR needed, No prior study
- Duration
- 13 weeks
- Start dates
- 3 Nov 2025
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Indigenous Australians: Everybody's Business
About this subject
After successfully completing this subject, you should be able to:
- Identify and demonstrate the similarities and differences between ones own culture and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture.
- Evaluate and report on the importance of workplace Human Resource Management policies, like racism and discrimination, when working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals, other organisations and the wider communities.
- Reflect on the importance of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples' history, cultural values and traditions in a business context.
- Course Introduction and History of First Peoples History, culture and knowledges
- Cultural Traditions: First Peoples Storytelling, Dreamtime and Lore
- Impact of Government Policies: Pre and Post Colonisation
- Why is culture important in business?
- Language and Cross Cultural Communication
- Cultural Safety (Yuwahn-Gulgan) in the Workplace
- The Way Forward: Government Initiatives - Closing the Gap, UNDRIP, IBA, RAPs, Supply Nation, and IPP
- The design to survive and the storytelling series (provides questions for reflection and debate)
- Exploring the Connected Continent and Navigating the Future series (provides a series of questions for reflection and debate)
- A series of examples of RAPS and shows how organisations create, embed, and enact them in Australia
- A series of documentary records of the Voice, the debate the outcome and the future (provides questions for discussion in the workshops)
- Summary of the course and highlights key strategies for the student to apply in their current or future roles in working with indigenous Australians and their businesses
This course describes the communication and work practice skills and knowledge required to work with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the various business industry contexts. It deals specifically with cross-cultural awareness, competencies and issues involving working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals, organisations and communities. Graduates from this course will possess the knowledge required to gain a better understanding of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander 'ways of thinking' by learning more about Indigenous society (knowledges, traditions, and culture), and the appropriate use of protocols when engaging with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, their businesses and the wider communities.
Students should not enrol in this subject if they have previously studied 3200GBS Engaging with First Peoples, 3100AFE Indigenous Australians: Everybody's Business, 3100GBS Indigenous Australians: Everybody's Business at Griffith University.
- Infographic ePoster (20%)
- Oral ePresentation (30%)
- Essay (50%)
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