Oorala units

The Oorala Aboriginal Centre offer two units which are available to study individually or as part of a degree. Both units are offered at two levels.

OORA100/300 - Aboriginal Resilience and the Arts

This unit is offered at both a 100 and 300 undergraduate level, and focuses on Aboriginal people's successes in overcoming difficult social conditions through a variety of cultural expressions. It unpacks human resilience by focusing on traditional practices of art, ceremony, storytelling and music to demonstrate cultural vitality in areas such as contemporary film, literature, music and the arts. The unit also explores race relations and the challenges Aboriginal people have faced in both the political and social arenas.

Students are provided with an insight into Aboriginal people's responses to colonisation, adaptation of cultural practices, and agency within Aboriginal communities throughout the 19th and 20th centuries.

OORA200/400 - Working with Aboriginal People

This unit offered at both an undergraduate (OORA200) and postgraduate level (OORA400), examines the history of relationships between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples, using the notion of whiteness to understand dispossession, resistance, adaptation and survival of Aboriginal peoples in Australia. Models of community development and cultural awareness enable students to develop strategies to equip them in working with Aboriginal people in a variety of professional practices. Students are challenged to examine and reflect on the self as a conscious personal and professional actor within the dynamic of ethnic interchanges.