Hot Topics in Indigenous Australia
UndergraduateMUR-SIK2002025
Course information for 2025 intake
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- 16 Feb 2025
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- No ATAR needed, No prior study
- Duration
- 12 weeks
- Start dates
- 24 Feb 2025
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Hot Topics in Indigenous Australia
About this subject
On successful completion of the subject, students should be able to:
- Describe the diversity of views within Indigenous and non-Indigenous communities on current ‘Hot Topics in Indigenous Australia’
- Critically analyse the role of media, existing power structures and socio-political history in shaping the dominant discourse
- Generate a resource that contributes to the debate on a matter of importance for Indigenous Australians
- Demonstrate skills in presenting, justifying and listening to diverse positions of relevant stakeholders
- Justify the positions of relevant stakeholders regarding contested issues.
- Discourse Analysis and Representations of Indigenous Australia
- Change the Date - Background
- Change the Date – The ‘For’ Case
- Change the Date – The ‘Against’ Case
- Politicising Sport - Background
- Politicising Sport - The ‘For’ Case
- Politicising Sport – The ‘Against’ Case
- The Voice to Parliament Referendum - Background
- The Voice to Parliament Referendum - The ‘For’ Case
- The Voice to Parliament Referendum - The ‘Against’ Case
- Trends within Contemporary Hot Topics
In this subject, we explore several current debates on matters of importance to Indigenous communities and mainstream Australia. These topics are all contentious and they are often divisive. We take a deep dive into the discourses both for and against and critically reflect on how they shape political action in these spaces. A broad range of voices are examined, including leading Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal thinkers from across the political spectrum and community sector, many of whom hold conflicting reasoning behind their positions. The role of the media, existing power structures and socio-political history have a significant role in shaping current discourses on topics related to Indigenous Australians and in this subject, students begin to unpack these ideas.
Please Note: All students studying at Murdoch University will need to complete the compulsory unit, Murdoch Academic Passport (MAP100), which only takes 2-3 hours to complete online. Find out more: http://goto.murdoch.edu.au/MurdochAcademicPassport.
- Group Podcast or Opinion Piece (40%)
- Q and A Panel (20%)
- Written Critique: Position Statement (20%)
- Reflective Jounral (20%)
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