Overview

What you will study

Respectfully engaging with Indigenous knowledges and creative arts practices requires culturally safe and aware ways of thinking about knowledge, responsibilities and ownerships, as presented in this Sharing of Indigenous Knowledges course offered by University of Melbourne

Relevance to your job and industry

This course will give you a richer understanding of Indigenous cultural protocols. No matter your industry, this is vital for professionals in every sector who strive to be more inclusive, collaborative, and respectful of Indigenous peoples and knowledges.

Learning outcome

By the end of this course, you'll be able to:

Reflect on diverse Indigenous creative and cultural practices and relationship to place
Follow cultural protocols and identify materials and traditional Indigenous technologies from Country
Respectfully and responsibly apply principles of cultural safety and respond to shared knowledges.

Programme Structure

The program focuses on:

Gain a historical overview of Indigenous creative practice

This micro-credential presents a historical overview of Indigenous creative practice in Australia, including contemporary cultural and creative practices. You'll learn to describe and reflect on the context of place in Indigenous cultures and creative practices, across this diverse history.

Decolonise your thinking and responsibly share Indigenous knowledges

Learn culturally aware and safe approaches to decolonising thinking about knowledge, 'know how', responsibilities, ownerships and interconnected relationships with Indigenous communities.

Engage with Indigenous technologies and creative practices

Drawing on your new understanding of reciprocal and responsible knowledge sharing, you'll engage in the practice of making a fishing net.

Key information

Duration

Part-time
- 2 months

Start dates & application deadlines

We did our best, but couldn't find the next application deadline and start date information online.

More details

Upcoming dates for this course are yet to be announced.

Language

English

Delivered

Online

Campus Location

Melbourne, Australia

Disciplines

Area & Cultural Studies View 6 other Short Courses in Area & Cultural Studies in Australia

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Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

We are not aware of any English requirements for this programme.

Other requirements

General requirements

CRICOS: 00116K

There are no eligibility requirements.

This course is valuable for anyone seeking to deepen their cultural awareness and engage respectfully with Indigenous cultures and communities.
It's particularly beneficial for teachers and education professionals, arts workers and practitioners, community and cultural development workers, and corporate, business or government leaders.

Tuition Fees

Tuition fees are shown in and the most likely applicable fee is shown based on your nationality.

International Applies to you

Applies to you

Non-residents

990 AUD / full

≈ 990 AUD / full
Domestic Applies to you

Applies to you

Citizens or residents

990 AUD / full

≈ 990 AUD / full

Funding

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Sharing of Indigenous Knowledges University of Melbourne

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