Undergraduate Indigenous Studies
Welcome to the Monash Indigenous Centre (MIC) where students have opportunities to gain knowledge and understanding of Australian Indigenous cultures, traditions and histories. Our courses have strong links with the Programme for Australian Indigenous Archaeology, a new initiative of the School of Geography and Environmental Science.
Units offered
A major or minor sequence in Australian Indigenous Studies is offered to Bachelor of Arts students at Clayton. Students wishing to complete this major are recommended to take a first-year sequence in Australian Indigenous Studies.
Additional unit now being offered in second semester 2012 - ATS2584/3584: Australia's black history
Co-ordinator: Professor Bain Attwood
Synopsis: This unit will consider relations between indigenous and non-Aboriginal people in Australia since 1770. The main topics will include the legal basis of British sovereignty; the nature of frontier contact; violence and the dispossession of Aborigines; Aboriginal depopulation; Aborigines' responses to colonialism; government policy and practice, from segregation to assimilation; and Aboriginal political movements. Previously coded HSY2260/3260
Units for majors and minors
Elective units
The major/minor units listed may be studied as electives in Arts and other combined degrees. Students intending to undertake Combined/Double Major Studies in Australian Indigenous Studies and other disciplines should seek enrolment advice and approval from the respective schools.
First Year
Semester 1
Semester 2
- ATS1249 Aborigines & White Australia: Colonial Encounters
- ATS1250 Aboriginal Peoples, Gender and the Colonial Frontier
These units are offered alternately each year.
Summer Semester
- View the Indigenous Studies Summer School page for further information.
Second Year
Semester 1
- ATS2353 Social Justice & Indigenous Australians
- ATS2355 Power, Knowledge, Aborigines: Between Representation and Reality
- ATS2356 Indigenous Legal Issues
- ATS2357 Australian Aboriginal Women
Semester 2
- ATS2354 Interrogating Racism: Indigenous Australians and the State
- ATS2358 Contesting Laws: Culture, Colonialism and Land
- ATS2359 Hearing the Country: Studies in Indigenous Australian Ethnoecology (not offered in 2012)
- ATS2584 Australia’s Black History
Third Year
Semester 1
- ATS3353 Social Justice & Indigenous Australians
- ATS3355 Power, Knowledge, Aborigines: Between Representation and Reality
- ATS3356 Indigenous Legal Issues
- ATS3357 Australian Aboriginal Women
Semester 2
- ATS3354 Interrogating Racism: Indigenous Australians and the State
- ATS3358 Contesting Laws: Culture, Colonialism and Land
- ATS3359 Hearing the Country: Studies in Indigenous Australian Ethnoecology (not offered in 2012)
- ATS3584 Australia’s Black History
Teaching staff