Disciplines and areas of study
Aboriginal studies
Program Coordinator: Dr John Morton.
Students qualify for a degree with an Aboriginal studies major by taking approved combinations of units from anthropology, archaeology, behavioural health sciences, English, genetics and human variation, history, legal studies, linguistics, religious studies, and sociology. Units either focus explicitly on aspects of Aboriginal societies or offer thematic, theoretical, or methodological approaches directly relevant to Aboriginal studies.
Program of study
Students qualifying for a degree with an Aboriginal studies major must accrue at least 130 credit points from the units listed below, including at least 30 credit points at first year and at least 60 credit points at third year. At least 60 credit points must be accrued from the set of core units marked with the superscript 2.
Important notice: not all of the units listed below will be available every year.
| Unit title | Unit code |
|---|---|
| First year units (15 credit points) | |
| Culture and Globalisation: introduction to anthropology | ANT1CAG |
| Dawn of Humanity | ARC1DOH |
| Discovering Archaeology | ARC1DAR |
| Our Global Village: introduction to anthropology | ANT1FET |
| Introduction to Aboriginal Australia2 | ANT1IIA |
| Myth, Legend and History | HIS1MLH |
| Representation and Participation in Australian Politics | POL1RAP |
| Sex, Gender and Diversity2 | GSD1SGD |
| Second or third year units (20 credit points) | |
| Aboriginal Australia2 | ANT2ABA/ANT3ABA |
| Aborigines and Law in Australia2 | LST2ALA/LST3ALA |
| Ancient Technologies | ARC2ANT/ARC3ANT |
| Anthropological Concepts and Practice | ANT2ACP/ANT3ACP |
| Applied Cultural Heritage Management | ARC2ACH/ARC3ACH |
| Applied Anthropology | ANT2APA/ANT3APA |
| Archaeology of Animals | ARC2ZOO/ARC3ZOO |
| Archaeology of Indigenous Victoria2 | ARC2AIV/ARC3AIV |
| Australian Aboriginal History2 | HIS2AAH/HIS3AAH |
| Australian Cinema | CST2CAC/CST3CAC |
| Bilingualism and Second Language Acquisition | LIN2BSA/LIN3BSA |
| Contemporary Australian Politics and Public Policy | POL2CAP/POL3CAP |
| Contemporary Feminist Thought | ENG2CFT/ENG3CFT |
| Cross-cultural Communication | LIN2CCC/LIN3CCC |
| Culture, Race and Difference | ANT2CRD/ANT3CRD |
| Current Issues in Anthropology | ANT2CIA/ANT3CIA |
| Discrimination and the Law | LST2DAL/LST3DAL |
| Gender Relations in Australian Society | HIS2GRA/HIS3GRA |
| Heritage Sites and Landscapes in Australia | HIS2HSL/HIS3HSL |
| Ice Age Australia2 | ARC2ICE/ARC3ICE |
| Inventing the Bush | ENG2ITB/ ENG3ITB |
| Introduction to Ethnographic Research3 | ANT2MQA/ANT3MQA |
| Kinship, Gender and Marriage | ANT2KAM/ANT3KAM |
| Managing Archaeology | ARC2MAN/ARC3MAN |
| Memory, Myth and History | HIS2MMH/HIS3MMH |
| People, Power and Protest: transforming modern Australia | HIS2PPP/HIS3PPP |
| Reconciliation2 | POL2REC/POL3REC |
| Re-situating Modernism: decolonising contexts | ENG2REM/ENG3REM |
| Twentieth-century Australian Literature: inventing the past | ENG2TAL/ENG3TAL |
| Third year units (30 credit points) | |
| Community and Cross-cultural Perspectives on Human Nutrition | NUT3CPN |
| Ecological and Evolutionary Genetics | GEN3EEG |
- Key: 2 Core units: students majoring in Aboriginal studies must complete at least 60 credit points of these.
- 3 Students must complete a research project based on Aboriginal studies for this to be considered a core unit.
Honours
To be considered for honours, students normally must have completed a major in Aboriginal studies with at least a B average. Intending honours students are advised to consult the Coordinator of Aboriginal Studies before enrolling at second or third year level. It is possible to combine honours in Aboriginal studies with honours in another discipline.
A full description of these units (including the unit name, unit code, credit points, campus/location, unit coordinator, class requirements, assessment, prerequisites, and readings) appears at the end of each discipline entry. For the most recent descriptions of all units, please access the unit database at www.latrobe.edu.au/udb_public.