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INDG1002: Introduction to Indigenous History

Semester 2, 2022 [Normal day] - Camperdown/Darlington, Sydney

This unit of study focuses on the history of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples since colonisation, exploring key social, political and legal events, issues and debates, and the people behind them. Students will learn about important historical events and social issues in areas such as civil and political rights, land rights, self-determination and reconciliation, developing an understanding of how these events and issues have shaped the shared history of Australia. The unit introduces a decolonising methodology that will underpin further work in the major.

Unit details and rules

Unit code INDG1002
Academic unit Indigenous Academic Units
Credit points 6
Prohibitions
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None
Prerequisites
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None
Corequisites
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None
Assumed knowledge
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None

Available to study abroad and exchange students

Yes

Teaching staff

Coordinator Lorraine Towers, lorraine.towers@sydney.edu.au
Type Description Weight Due Length
Presentation Tutorial Presentation
Audio visual presentation with discussion on set question for ten minutes.
10% Multiple weeks 500 words equivalent
Outcomes assessed: LO1 LO7 LO6 LO5 LO4 LO3 LO2
Assignment Tutorial Presentation Paper
A written critical analysis of a set question (presentation question).
20% Multiple weeks 1000 words
Outcomes assessed: LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4 LO5 LO6
Assignment Critical Review of Digitised Source
Consider the nature, context, ethical use of a digitised historical item.
30% Week 07
Due date: 14 Sep 2022 at 23:59
1000 words
Outcomes assessed: LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4 LO5 LO6
Assignment Research Essay
An analytical written response to a set question.
40% Week 12
Due date: 28 Oct 2022 at 23:59
2000 words
Outcomes assessed: LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4 LO5 LO6

Assessment summary

Detailed information for each assessment can be found on Canvas.

Assessment criteria

The University awards common result grades, set out in the Coursework Policy 2014 (Schedule 1).

As a general guide, a High distinction indicates work of an exceptional standard, a Distinction a very high standard, a credit a good standard, and a pass an acceptable standard.

Result name

Mark range

Description

High distinction

85 - 100

  • Consistently strong and ongoing demonstration and evidence of superior organisational and conceptual skills. The work is extremely well conceived, coherent, logical, original and lucid as well as professionally prepared.
  • Superior clarity in presentation and expression with attention to detail in all aspects evident.
  • Persuasively articulates argument displaying clear focus & academic rigour. Respectful of diverse backgrounds & experiences.
  • Convincing synthesis of evidence, critical analysis and understanding of multiple perspectives to formulate a coherent argument.
  • ​Displays an exceptional understanding of subject/discipline specific content and practices.
  • Uses recommended referencing style consistently and accurately in text of work and reference list. Effective use of relevant quotations and scholarly referencing at all times.

Distinction

75 - 84

  • Consistently strong and ongoing demonstration of very good organisational and conceptual skills. The work is well conceived, coherent, logical and lucid as well as professionally prepared.
  • Fluent and succinct communication style appropriate to the assessment task. Grammar, spelling, use of language and punctuation is appropriate and accurate.
  • Communicates effectively using a variety of relevant, imaginative, fluent and professional presentation styles and communication methods. Evidence of deep reflection on the presentation. Respectful of diverse backgrounds & experiences.
  • Considered use of evidence and consistently demonstrates application of critical analysis. Justifies relevant conclusions and their implications.
  • Displays an excellent understanding of subject/discipline specific content and practices.
  • Uses recommended referencing style consistently and accurately in text of work and reference list. Effective use of relevant quotations and scholarly referencing at all times.
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Credit

65 - 74

  • Strong organisational & conceptual skills and evidence that the task is logical and coherent and professionally prepared.
  • Communication is mainly clear, fluent and appropriate to document. Grammar, spelling, use of language and punctuation is accurate.
  • Uses a variety of discipline-appropriate formats to communicate confidently & effectively. Evidence of reflection on the presentation. Demonstrates sensitivity to diverse backgrounds & experiences.
  • Credible argument making relevant use of evidence, analysis and understanding. Able to apply concepts and draw and justify conclusions.
  • Displays a good understanding of subject/discipline specific content and practices
  • Uses recommended referencing style consistently and accurately in text of work and reference list. Effective use of relevant quotations.

Pass

50 - 64

  • Demonstrates task organisation and conceptual understanding in a style which is mostly logical, coherent and flowing.
  • Communication is appropriate to the assessment task and is mostly fluent and clear. Grammar, spelling, use of language and punctuation mostly accurate.
  • Communicates competently in a variety of formats appropriate to the discipline and report procedures in a structured manner using relevant information. Evidence of sensitivity to diverse backgrounds & experiences.
  • Demonstrates some evidence of analytical and evaluative skills. Able to apply fundamental concepts and draw and justify conclusions.
  • Displays an understanding of most of the subject/discipline specific content and practices
  • Uses recommended referencing style with minimal errors. Effective use of relevant quotations.

Fail

0 - 49

  • Attempts are made to demonstrate a logical & coherent understanding of the assessment task but some aspects may be confused or undeveloped.
  • Meaning apparent but not always fluently or clearly communicated. Grammar, spelling, language and/or punctuation may display minor errors. Some evidence of applying School’s style guide.
  • Communication is unstructured and unfocused and/or in a format inappropriate to the discipline. Not all material is relevant and/or is difficult to understand. May be evidence of insensitivity to diverse backgrounds & experiences.
  • Little or no evidence of analytical and evaluative skills. Fails to draw on fundamental concepts and to justify conclusions.
  • Does not meet the required level of subject/discipline specific knowledge of content or practices
  • Many errors or no use of conventions in referencing. Fails to meet University’s academic honesty policy.

For more information see sydney.edu.au/students/guide-to-grades

For more information see guide to grades.

Late submission

In accordance with University policy, these penalties apply when written work is submitted after 11:59pm on the due date:

  • Deduction of 5% of the maximum mark for each calendar day after the due date.
  • After ten calendar days late, a mark of zero will be awarded.

Academic integrity

The Current Student website  provides information on academic integrity and the resources available to all students. The University expects students and staff to act ethically and honestly and will treat all allegations of academic integrity breaches seriously.  

We use similarity detection software to detect potential instances of plagiarism or other forms of academic integrity breach. If such matches indicate evidence of plagiarism or other forms of academic integrity breaches, your teacher is required to report your work for further investigation.

You may only use artificial intelligence and writing assistance tools in assessment tasks if you are permitted to by your unit coordinator, and if you do use them, you must also acknowledge this in your work, either in a footnote or an acknowledgement section.

Studiosity is permitted for postgraduate units unless otherwise indicated by the unit coordinator. The use of this service must be acknowledged in your submission.

Simple extensions

If you encounter a problem submitting your work on time, you may be able to apply for an extension of five calendar days through a simple extension.  The application process will be different depending on the type of assessment and extensions cannot be granted for some assessment types like exams.

Special consideration

If exceptional circumstances mean you can’t complete an assessment, you need consideration for a longer period of time, or if you have essential commitments which impact your performance in an assessment, you may be eligible for special consideration or special arrangements.

Special consideration applications will not be affected by a simple extension application.

Using AI responsibly

Co-created with students, AI in Education includes lots of helpful examples of how students use generative AI tools to support their learning. It explains how generative AI works, the different tools available and how to use them responsibly and productively.

WK Topic Learning activity Learning outcomes
Week 01 1. Making history; 2. Film discussion: First Australians (episode 1, Rachel Perkins); Tutorial (responses to lectures, readings and tutorial questions). Lecture and tutorial (3 hr) LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4 LO5 LO6 LO7
Week 02 3. Invasion/settlement-is that the question?; 4. Settler colonialism: Aboriginal dispossession, engagement and resistance; Tutorial (responses to lectures, readings and tutorial questions). Lecture and tutorial (3 hr) LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4 LO5 LO6 LO7
Week 03 5. Early Sydney: Aboriginal lives hidden in plain view; 6. Aboriginal African connections in the ‘colony’; Tutorial (responses to lectures, readings and tutorial questions). Lecture and tutorial (3 hr) LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4 LO5 LO6 LO7
Week 04 9. Histories Meeting Place; 10. Material Culture - Museums bringing history into the future? Tutorial (responses to lectures, readings and tutorial questions) ; Tutorial (responses to lectures, readings and tutorial questions). Lecture and tutorial (3 hr) LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4 LO5 LO6 LO7
Week 05 7. Protection: Early Policies and Experience; 8. Film discussion: First Australians (episode 3, Rachel Perkins ; Tutorial (responses to lectures, readings and tutorial questions). Lecture and tutorial (3 hr) LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4 LO5 LO6
Week 06 11. Coranderrk and Cummeragunja: pioneering’ and protest; 12. Mary Jane Cain: the audacity of local resistance; Tutorial (responses to lectures, readings and tutorial questions). Lecture and tutorial (3 hr) LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4 LO5 LO6 LO7
Week 07 13. Still fighting back: civil and political rights in the early 20th; 14. Film discussion: Lousy Little Sixpence (Alec Morgan and Gerald Bostock); Tutorial (responses to lectures, readings and tutorial questions). Lecture and tutorial (3 hr) LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4 LO5 LO6 LO7
Week 08 15. ‘Assimilation’, and the elaboration of race; 16. Stolen Generations Guest Speaker; Tutorial (responses to lectures, readings and tutorial questions). Lecture and tutorial (3 hr) LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4 LO5 LO6 LO7
Week 09 17. Colonial Occupation, Indigenous Removal and Incarceration; 18. The 1967 Referendum: context and legacies; Tutorial (responses to lectures, readings and tutorial questions). Lecture and tutorial (3 hr) LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4 LO5 LO6 LO7
Week 10 19. From Pastoral Colonialism to the Fight for Land Rights in the NT; 20. Transnational Indigenous protest; Tutorial (responses to lectures, readings and tutorial questions). Lecture and tutorial (3 hr) LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4 LO5 LO6 LO7
Week 11 21. Mabo and Native Title: history and significance; 22. Researching Torres Strait Islander railway history; Tutorial (responses to lectures, readings and tutorial questions). Lecture and tutorial (3 hr) LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4 LO5 LO6 LO7
Week 12 23. Songs, memory, identity and making history 24. Making history through Art Culture; Tutorial (responses to lectures, readings and tutorial questions). Lecture and tutorial (3 hr) LO1 LO2 LO3 LO4 LO5 LO6 LO7

Attendance and class requirements

  • Attendance: According to Faculty Board Resolutions, students in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences are expected to attend 90% of their classes. If you attend less than 50% of classes, regardless of the reasons, you may be referred to the Examiner’s Board. The Examiner’s Board will decide whether you should pass or fail the unit of study if your attendance falls below this threshold.
  • Lecture recording: Most lectures (in recording-equipped venues) will be recorded and may be made available to students on the LMS. However, you should not rely on lecture recording to substitute your classroom learning experience.
  • Preparation: Students should commit to spend approximately three hours’ preparation time (reading, studying, homework, essays, etc.) for every hour of scheduled instruction.

Study commitment

Typically, there is a minimum expectation of 1.5-2 hours of student effort per week per credit point for units of study offered over a full semester. For a 6 credit point unit, this equates to roughly 120-150 hours of student effort in total.

Required readings

Please note:

  1. Completing the required readings is essential to your engagement with the lectures, full participation in the tutorials, and in preparing for the assessments and achieving the outcomes of the unit.

  2. You are expected to complete one required reading for each of the two lectures per week as a minimum. Where more than one reading is listed as required you may choose which of the readings to complete.

  3. The e-readings accessible from the CANVAS site link are prepared by the library and will not include any resources publicly available through the internet.

  4. Where chapters exist as part of an e-book, the library posts a link to the whole book rather than a pdf copy. In these cases refer to the reading lists here to identify the precise chapter you should read (except re recommended reagings).

  5. If the e-reading link is not working please inform the library or contact ICT if it appears to be an issue with your access (not the coordinator).

 

WEEKLY READINGS

INDG1002 Introduction to Indigenous History

 

Week 1.

L1. Making History

Birch, Tony ‘I could feel it in my body’: War on a history war. Transforming Cultures eJournal, Vol. 1 No 1, March 2006 

Hokari, M. 2011. Gurindji Journey: A Japanese historian in the outback, UNSW Press, ‘Maintaining history’, Chapter 2, pp. 89-112. 

 

L2. Film/discussion: First Australians, Episode ‘One they Have Come To Stay’. Director Rachel Perkins

Haebich, A. 2005. ‘The Battlefields of Aboriginal history’, in M. Lyons and P. Russell (eds), Australia’s History: Themes and Debates, UNSW Press, Sydney, pp.1-21.

 

Week 2.

L3. Invasion/Settlement-is that the question?

Coleman, Dierdre. In Romantic colonization and British anti-slavery. Cambridge; New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Chapter 5 ‘Etiquettes of colonization and dispossession.’ 164-199; 232-236 (notes).

Pybus, Cassandra. 2020. Truganini : journey through the apocalypse. Allen & Unwin: Sydney, NSW.

 

L4. Settler Colonialism: Aboriginal dispossession, engagement and resistance

Goodall, H. (2008). Invasion and Land: ‘a system of terrorism’. Invasion to Embassy: Land in Aboriginal Politics in New South Wales, 1770-1972 (pp. 25-39) Sydney: Sydney University Press.

Mitchell, Jessie. (2009). ‘Are we in Danger of a Hostile Visit from the Aborigines?’ Dispossession and the Rise of Self-Government in New South Wales. Australian Historical Studies, 40:3, 294-307, DOI: 10.1080/10314610903105191

Reynolds, Henry and Clements, Nicholas. 2021. Tongerlongeter : First Nations leader and Tasmanian war hero. UNSW: Kensington, NSW.

 

 Week 3.

L5. L4. Early Sydney: Aboriginal Lives

Irish, Paul. 2017. Hidden in Plain View: the Aboriginal people of coastal Sydney. Sydney: New South Publishing. Chapter 2 Living to Fish.

Karskens, Grace (2010). The Colony: a History of Early Sydney, Allen and Unwin. Chapter 2 

 

L6. Aboriginal African connections in the ‘colony’

Aboagye, Kaiya. 2018. Australian Blackness, the African Diaspora and Afro/Indigenous Connections in the Global South. Transition 126: 72–85.

Pybus, Cassandra. 2006. Black Founders: the Unknown Story of Australia’s First Black Settlers. UNSW Press: Sydney.

 

Week 4.

L7. ‘Protection’: Early Policies and Experience

Furphy, Samuel. 2013. The Trial of Warri: Aboriginal protection and settler self government in colonial Victoria. Journal of Australian colonial history, (15): 63-82.

Rachel Standfield. (2011). ‘“The vacillating manners and sentiments of these people”: Mobility, Civilisation and Dispossession in the Work of William Thomas with the Port Philip Aboriginal Protectorate’, Law Text Culture, vol. 15, pp. 162–84.

 

L8. Film/discussion: First Australians Episode Three ‘Freedom for our Lifetime’. Director Rachel Perkins (DVD)

Nanni, Giordano. (2013). Coranderrk: We will Show the Country. Sydney: Aboriginal Studies Press. Chapter One, A Brief History of Coranderrk, 1835-81. Introduction and chapter one A Brief History of Coranderrk, pp. 1-32

 

Week 5.

L9. Histories Meeting Place

Sculthorpe, Gaye. (2017). Same objects, different stories: exhibiting ‘indigenous Australia’. Journal of Museum Ethnography No.30 (March) pp. 79-103.

Lynette Russell. (2005). Indigenous Knowledge and Archives: Accessing Hidden History and Understandings, Australian Academic & Research Libraries, 36:2, 161-171,

Thorpe, Kirsten and Alex Byrne. (2014). Indigenous Voices in the State Library of NSW. Library History Forum, SLNSW, 18-19 November 2014. 75th Anniversary of the NSW Library Act 1939. http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/learning

 

L10. Material culture – museums bring histories into the future?

Bouton, E (2018) “Replication Ramification: Ethics for 3D Technology in Anthropologic Collections” Theory and Practice, Vol 1, 2018 on The Museum Scholar website http://articles.themuseumscholar.org/tp_vol1bouton

Manžuch, Z (2017) “Ethical Issues In Digitization Of Cultural Heritage” Journal of Contemporary Archival Studies Vol. 4 , Article 4

See additional reading list on CANVAS with Assessment Two information

 

Week 6.

L11. Coranderrk and Cummeragunja: ‘pioneering’ and protest

Davis, Fiona. (2014). Australian settler colonialism and the Cummeragunja Aboriginal Station: redrawing boundaries. Eastbourne Chicago: Sussex Academic Press.

McLisky, Claire. (2009). Colouring (in) Virtue? Evangelicalism, work and whiteness on Maloga Mission. In Jane Carey and Claire McLisky, eds, Creating White Australia. Sydney: University of Sydney Press. Pp. 67-84

Additional: Remembering the Mission Days http://aiatsis.gov.au/exhibitions/remembering-mission-days

 

L12. Mary Jane Cain: the audacity of local Resistance

Sommerville, Margaret and Dundas Marie. 1994. Sun Dancin’: Aboriginal People and Place in Coonabarabran. Canberra: AIATSIS.

 

 

Week 7.

L13. Still fighting back: struggles for formal equality and civil and political rights in the early 20th century

 Maynard, John. (2007). Fight for liberty and freedom: the origins of Australian Aboriginal activism. Canberra. ACT: Aboriginal Studies Press. Chapter 4, ‘Political Mobilisation’, pp. 36-55.

Attwood, Bain and Markus, Andrew. Thinking Black: William Cooper and the Australian Aborigines' League [online]. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2004. Canberra: Aboriginal Studies Press, 2004.  ISBN: 0855754591. See pp. ii, v-vi, and Introduction 1-24, and 90-97 (‘Letter from an Educated Black’) 

 

L14. Film: Lousy Little Sixpence Directors Alec Morgan and Gerald Bostock

Haskins, V., ‘A Better Chance? – sexual abuse and the apprenticeship of Aboriginal girls under the NSW Aborigines Protection Board’, Aboriginal History, 2004, vol. 28, pp. 33-58.

 

Week 8.

L15. Assimilation’, and the elaboration of race

Rowse, Tim (ed). (2005). Contesting Assimilation. Perth: API Network. Introduction. Contesting Assimilation, pp. 1-37.

Delmege, Sharon. Allawah Grove native settlement: Housing and assimilation [online]. Aboriginal History, Vol. 39, 2015: 83-108.

Additional: Grieves, V. 2011. “The McClymonts of Nabiac: Interracial Marriage, Inheritance and Dispossession in Nineteenth Century New South Wales Society” in Rethinking the Racial Moment: Essays on the Colonial Encounter, Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

 

L16. Stolen Generations

Manne, R. (2004) Aboriginal Child Removal and the Question of Genocide, 1900-­‐1940. In D Moses (Ed.) Genocide and Settler Society: Frontier Violence and Stolen Indigenous Children in  Australian History (pp. 217-­‐243). New York: Berghahn Books

Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission. (2007) A Community Guide to the Findings of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children From Their Families. Available at https://www.humanrights.gov.au/sites/default/files/content/pdf/social_justice/bth_Community%20guide_final.pdf

 

Week 9.

L17. Colonial Occupation, Indigenous Removal and Incarceration

Anthony, Thalia.2013. Indigenous People, Crime and Punishment. Hoboken: Taylor and Francis.

Stasiuk, G. and Hibberd, L. 2017. Rottnest or Wadjemup: Toursim and the Forgetting of Aboriginal Incarceration and the Pre-Colonial in J.Z. Wilson et al. (eds.), The Palgrave Handbook of Prion Tourism, Palgrave Studies in Prisons and Penology, Palgrave.

 

L18. The 1967 Referendum: Context and Consequences

Atwood, Bain, and Marcus, Andrew. Race, Power, and the Australian Constitution. 2007. Canberra, ACT: Aboriginal Studies Press. Chapter One The Constitution and the Power of Race and Chapter 7 The Poll and its Consequences (short chapters).

Horner, Jack. 2004. Seeking Racial Justice: an Insider’s Memoir of the Movement for Aboriginal Advancement, 1938-78, Chapter 8 The referendum and constitutional change, 1966-67.

See also Davis, Megan and Williams, George. 2015. Everything you need to know about the referendum to recognize Indigenous Australians. Sydney: New South Publishing. Chapter 3 The 1967 Referendum and Chapter 4 Dawn of a new era? (short chapters).

 

 

Week 10.

L19.  From Pastoral Colonialism to the Fight for Land Rights

McGrath, ‘Tame Blacks? Paternalism and Control’ in Born in the Cattle: Aborigines in Cattle Country, Allen & Unwin, Sydney, 1987, pp. 95–121.

M. Hokari, 'The Gurindji Walk-Off' in Gurindji Journey: A Japanese Historian in the Outback, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2011, pp. 199-230, 279-82.

 

 

L20. Transnational Indigenous Protest

Johnson, M. 2016. The Land is Our History: Indigeneity, Law and the Settler State (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Chapter One Citizens Plus.

Ningla A-Na (Directors Alessandro Cavadini and Caroline Strachan)

Additional: Blood Brothers Director: Rachel Perkins (DVD)

  

 

Week 11.

L21.  Mabo Native Title: history and significance

Sharp, Nonie. No Ordinary Judgment: Mabo, the Murray Islanders’ Land Case [online]. Canberra, ACT: Aboriginal Studies Press, 1996. Canberra, ACT: Aboriginal Studies Press, 1996. xxv, 290 p. ISBN 0855752874. =

Furphy, Samuel. (2010). 'Our civilisation has rolled over thee': Edward M Curr and the Yorta Yorta native title case. History Australia. 7.3 (Dec) p.54.1.

Genovese, Ann. The use of history in native title: historical perspectives. [online]. Early Days: Journal of the Royal Western Australian Historical Society, Vol. 12, No. 3, 2003: 326-333.

 

L22.  Researching Torres Strait Islander Railway History

Lui-Chivizhe, L  ‘ Making history: Torres Strait Islander railway workers and the 1968 Mt Newman track-laying record’. Aboriginal History, vol 35, 2011, pp. 37-55.

Nakata, M, ‘Commonsense, colonialism and government’, in R David (ed) Woven histories, dancing lives: Torres Strait Islander identity, culture and history, Aboriginal Studies Press, Canberra, 2004, pp154-173.

 

Week 12.

L23. . Songs, Memory, Identity and History

Bracknell, Clint. Special section: Western Australian Aboriginal history: Kooral Dwonk-katitjiny (listening to the past): Aboriginal language, songs and history in south-western Australia [online]. Aboriginal History, Vol. 38, Dec 2014: 1-18.

Lloyd, Jessie. 2017. The Songs Back Home. Missions Songs Project. Audio CD.

Lloyd, Jessie. 2016. The Irex. Mission Songs Project. Audio CD.

 

L24. Making history through Art TBC

Learning outcomes are what students know, understand and are able to do on completion of a unit of study. They are aligned with the University's graduate qualities and are assessed as part of the curriculum.

At the completion of this unit, you should be able to:

  • LO1. demonstrate your developing knowledge of key events, processes and people in Indigenous Australian history
  • LO2. effectively evaluate and discuss the research, production and presentation of Indigenous history in Australia
  • LO3. contribute to debates about Indigenous Australian history and its significance in contemporary Australia
  • LO4. effectively communicate their knowledge through high level oral and written communication skills;
  • LO5. critically identify and use information through a variety of media and technologies
  • LO6. demonstrate personal and intellectual autonomy and curiosity for new information and perspectives
  • LO7. be informed, aware and respectful of social, cultural and linguistic diversity, and maintain a respectful collegiality in class.

Graduate qualities

The graduate qualities are the qualities and skills that all University of Sydney graduates must demonstrate on successful completion of an award course. As a future Sydney graduate, the set of qualities have been designed to equip you for the contemporary world.

GQ1 Depth of disciplinary expertise

Deep disciplinary expertise is the ability to integrate and rigorously apply knowledge, understanding and skills of a recognised discipline defined by scholarly activity, as well as familiarity with evolving practice of the discipline.

GQ2 Critical thinking and problem solving

Critical thinking and problem solving are the questioning of ideas, evidence and assumptions in order to propose and evaluate hypotheses or alternative arguments before formulating a conclusion or a solution to an identified problem.

GQ3 Oral and written communication

Effective communication, in both oral and written form, is the clear exchange of meaning in a manner that is appropriate to audience and context.

GQ4 Information and digital literacy

Information and digital literacy is the ability to locate, interpret, evaluate, manage, adapt, integrate, create and convey information using appropriate resources, tools and strategies.

GQ5 Inventiveness

Generating novel ideas and solutions.

GQ6 Cultural competence

Cultural Competence is the ability to actively, ethically, respectfully, and successfully engage across and between cultures. In the Australian context, this includes and celebrates Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures, knowledge systems, and a mature understanding of contemporary issues.

GQ7 Interdisciplinary effectiveness

Interdisciplinary effectiveness is the integration and synthesis of multiple viewpoints and practices, working effectively across disciplinary boundaries.

GQ8 Integrated professional, ethical, and personal identity

An integrated professional, ethical and personal identity is understanding the interaction between one’s personal and professional selves in an ethical context.

GQ9 Influence

Engaging others in a process, idea or vision.

Outcome map

Learning outcomes Graduate qualities
GQ1 GQ2 GQ3 GQ4 GQ5 GQ6 GQ7 GQ8 GQ9

This section outlines changes made to this unit following staff and student reviews.

The unit has continued to include more guest lectures delivered by Indigenous academics and to develop new lectures, particularly on historical issues that have a direct resonance with contemporary concerns. Your feedback on the unit is encouraged so that the offering and delivery can be continually improved.

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