ABOR2243
Indigenous People, Global Warming and the Environment
10 Units
Available in 2012
| Callaghan Campus | Semester 2 |
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Previously offered in 2013, 2011
Aboriginal Australians are the sole survivors of last ice age in this country and demonstrates the peoples capacity to withstand the most drastic processes of change and an acute understanding of the environment. This amazing capacity to change to environmental and other factors provides the perfect cultural lens to explore these changes from an Aboriginal viewpoint from creation through to the contemporary opinions on current global warming and the resilience of Aboriginal peoples to the impact of change over critical periods of policy and practice.
ObjectivesOn completion of this course students will demonstrate: 1. An understanding of Aboriginal Philosophy to the Environment. 2. A analytical knowledge of the diversity of experiences of Aboriginal peoples with environmental change and adaptation to change in general. 3. How Aboriginal People successfully adapted to great changes in the environment including Global Warming and Ice Ages. 4. An explore the fundamental impacts of colonisation on the environment as a measurement of Aboriginal loss. 5. A range of academic skills in relation writing, oral presentation, critical thinking, research and analysis. | |||
Content* Origin Theories of Aboriginal People * Aboriginal Lore and the Environment * Mega Flora and Fauna, Ice Ages and Volcanoes * Global Warming and the Rising Seas * United Nations role and concerns | |||
Replacing Course(s)ABOR2240 - Contact Aboriginal Society II - 10 units | |||
TransitionNot Applicable | |||
Industrial Experience0 | |||
Assumed KnowledgeABOR1110 or equivalent introductory Aboriginal Studies course | |||
Modes of DeliveryDistance Learning : IT Based Internal Mode | |||
Teaching MethodsLecture Tutorial | |||
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Contact HoursLecture: for 1 hour(s) per Week for Full Term Tutorial: for 2 hour(s) per Week for Full Term | |||
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