Course for international guest/part time students
- Faculty
- Faculty of Humanities
- Organization
- BTK Department of English Language Pedagogy
- Code
- BBI-ANG17-372E.6
- Title
- Elective seminar in English-Speaking Cultures: Australian Aborigines
- Usual semester
- Both
- Published semester
- 2025/26/2, 2026/27/1
- ECTS
- 5
- Language
- en
- Learning outcomes
- This course aims to: familiarise students with the traditional life of the native people of Australia provide students with a historical perspective of white colonisation in order to gain an understanding of the contemporary situation of Aboriginal people demonstrate the plurality of Aboriginal experience and the range of their diverse talents use a wide variety of materials, including many texts authored by Aborigines introduce students to debates involving Aboriginal people and teach them skills to understand those debates
- Course content
- Course content: Myths and legends, traditional society Voyages of exploration, settlement Black and white conflict Mission life Stolen generations Stolen controversies, history wars, apology Aboriginal women’s autobiography Aboriginal poetry Aboriginal politics and land rights issues Aboriginal music and art
- Assessment method
- Assessment of the course will be based on: Attendance, participation short presentation on a selected topic seminar paper (6-8 pages) in-class test
- Bibliography
- Reading (viewing) assignments from the following books and other resources: Davis, Jack. Kullark/The Dreamers. Sydney: Currency Press, 1982. Davis, Jack. No Sugar. Sydney: Currency Press, 1986 Broome, Richard. Aboriginal Australians: Black Response to White Dominance: 1788-1980. North Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 1982. Edwards, W.H. An Introduction to Aboriginal Societies. Wentworth Falls, N.S.W.: Social Science Press, 1988. Manne, Robert. „The Stolen Generations.” In Peter Craven (ed) The Best Australian Essays. Melbourne, Bookman: 1998. 23-36. Morgan, Sally. My Place. Fremantle: Fremantle Arts Centre Press, 1987. Mudrooroo. Milli Milli Wangka: Indigenious Literature of Australia. South Melbourne: Hyland House, 1997. Noyce, Philip. Rabbit Proof Fence. Sydney, NSW: Film Finance Corp, 2003.