Indigenous Studies Table

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Unit of study Credit points A: Assumed knowledge P: Prerequisites C: Corequisites N: Prohibition Session

Indigenous Studies

Major

A major in Indigenous Studies requires 48 credit points from this table including:
(i) 12 credit points of 1000-level core units
(ii) 6 credit points of 2000-level core units
(iii) 6 credit points of 2000-level selective units
(iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level core units
(v) 12 credit points of 3000-level selective units
(vi) 6 credit points of 3000-level Interdisciplinary Project units

Minor

A minor in in Indigenous Studies requires 36 credit points from this table including:
(i) 12 credit points of 1000-level core units
(ii) 6 credit points of 2000-level core units
(iii) 6 credit points of 2000-level selective units
(iv) 6 credit points of 3000-level core units
(v) 6 credit points of 3000-level selective units

1000 level units of study

Core

INDG1001
Introduction to Indigenous Cultures
6   

Please refer to the unit of study outline for individual sessions https://www.sydney.edu.au/units
Intensive July
Semester 1
INDG1002
Introduction to Indigenous History
6      Semester 2

2000 level units of study

Core
INDG2001
Indigenous Land and Culture
6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Indigenous Studies
Semester 1
Selective
INDG2004
Indigenous Wellbeing
6      Semester 2
INDG2005
Learning an Australian Language
6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Indigenous Studies
N KOCR2605
Semester 1
ARHT2636
Contemporary Indigenous Art
6    P 12 credit points at 1000 level in Art History or 12 credit points at 1000 level in Indigenous Studies
N ARHT2036
Semester 1
LNGS2611
Language in Indigenous Australia

This unit of study is not available in 2022

6    P 24 credit points
Semester 1

3000 level units of study

Core
INDG3001
Indigenous Studies Methodologies
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Indigenous Studies
Semester 1
Selective
INDG3003
Race, Racism and Indigenous Australia
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Indigenous Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Diversity Studies
Semester 2
INDG3005
Re-awakening Australian Languages
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Indigenous Studies
N KOCR3607
Semester 2
INDG3006
De/colonising Indigenous Education

This unit of study is not available in 2022

6      Semester 1
ENGL3705
Writing Country: Indigenous Ecopoetics

This unit of study is not available in 2022

6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Australian literature or 12 credit points at 2000 level in English or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Indigenous Studies

Note: Department permission required for enrolment

Semester 2
GOVT3998
Aboriginal and TSI Politics and Policy
6    P 12 credit points at 2000 level in Politics or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Diversity Studies or 12 credit points at 2000 level in Indigenous Studies or 12 senior credit points from Government and International Relations
Semester 2

Interdisciplinary project

If you are completing two majors and both of your majors are from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your first major, and the Industry and Community Project unit of study for your second major.
If you are completing two majors but only one of your majors is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for that major.
If you are completing one major only and that major is from the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, please select the Interdisciplinary Impact unit of study for your major.
FASS3999
Interdisciplinary Impact
6    P Completion of at least 90 credit points

Note: Department permission required for enrolment in the following sessions:Intensive December

Intensive December
Semester 1
Semester 2
INDG3999
Interdisciplinary Impact

This unit of study is not available in 2022

6    P Completion of at least 90 credit points
N Interdisciplinary Impact in another major
Intensive December
Semester 1
Semester 2
INDG3998
Industry and Community Project
6    P 72 credit points
C Interdisciplinary Impact in any major
Intensive February
Intensive July
Semester 1
Semester 2