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IDIG101 Issues in Contemporary Indigenous Societies

Updated: 29 May 2009
Credit Points 6
Offering
Responsible Campus Teaching Period Mode of Study
Armidale Semester 2 Off Campus
Armidale Semester 2 On Campus
Online level Level C - Internet access required
Intensive School(s) None
Supervised Exam There is no UNE Supervised Examination.
Pre-requisites None
Co-requisites None
Restrictions ABED101 or ABST100 or EDST100 or EDST200 or PDAB101
Notes None
Combined Units None
Coordinator(s) Jim Maher (emaher@une.edu.au)
Unit Description

This unit examines issues, which are impacting upon Indigenous communities today including the areas of education, health, land and resource management and law and justice. In the unit we examine the many reform and political agendas associated with these issues. The unit provides students with problem solving skills and understandings relevant to the contemporary professional workplace.

Prescribed Material
Mandatory
Text(s):

Note: Students are expected to purchase prescribed material

The Original Australians: Story of the Aboriginal People
ISBN: 9781741148725
Flood, J., Allen & Unwin 1st ed. 2006
Note: Chapters 1 and 2 are available as an e-book from the Dixson Library, UNE. Students are not to buy this textbook.
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Generations of Resistance: Mabo and Justice
ISBN: 9780582804685
Lippmann, L., Longman 3rd ed. 1994
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Recommended Material
Optional
Text(s):

Note: Recommended material is held in the University Library - purchase is optional

White Out: How Politics is Killing Black Australia
ISBN: 9781865088556
Neill, R., Allen & Unwin 2002
Note: Available as an e-book from the Dixson Library, UNE. Students are not to buy the text.
Text refers to: Semester 2 , On and Off Campus
Disclaimer Unit information may be subject to change prior to commencement of the teaching period.
   

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