Current course offerings

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Course description

This course engages with some of the main conceptual and practical issues that arise in working with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities, institutions, and people. Further, the course aims to develop practice skills, particularly in the important areas of cross-cultural understanding and communication. Some consideration is therefore given to the organisational contexts of practice, and how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are impacted by differing organisational and policy agendas. It examines a range of policy and social challenges that Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and communities face, and discusses the implications of these for those working with and for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities. The course affords students with an opportunity to reflect on their own culture, practice with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples, and on major theoretical and practical questions about cross-cultural workplaces raised by Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and non-Indigenous commentators. It closely examines historical and contemporary experiences of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities, and students move towards developing culturally safe practices that are responsive to the cross-cultural nature of their work.

Archived offerings