Course overview
To extend students' knowledge and understanding of Indigenous issues impacting on the First Nations people of North America, Australia and the Pacific Region.
Course learning outcomes
- Describe the main features of the pre- colonial cultures of the Indigenous peoples of Australia, New Zealand, the United States.
- Identify and use appropriate research methods for undertaking a comparative study of Indigenous peoples.
- Identify the range of strategies employed by Indigenous peoples in response to colonisation.
- Critically analyse the different approaches to the colonisation of Indigenous people.
- Describe and analyse the nature of contemporary Indigenous strategies for self-determination.