The course in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island Art has three main aims:

* Provide students with basic geographical and historical frameworks for the study of indigenous visual arts in Australia and the Torres Strait Islands.
* Familiarise students with concepts that indigenous peoples have expressed as fundamental to their understandings of relationships between art and life, both historically and in a contemporary context.

* Assist students in developing ideas about how Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander visual arts contribute to cross-cultural critical theory.

The skills that students can expect to gain are:

* Ability to identify historical and geographical origin of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island art.
* Ability to conduct a culturally relevant appreciation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island visual arts.
* Ability to formulate cross-cultural awareness in the processes of interpretation of visual arts.

The course of lectures, workshops and tutorials includes guest lectures by indigenous artists and scholars.

1,000 word Tutorial paper (25%), 2,000 word essay (40%), visual test (25%) and tutorial participation (10%).

ARTH1002 - Introduction to Art History and ARTH1003 - Introduction to Modern Art, or the permission of the Coordinator

Howard Morphy, Aboriginal Art Phaidon Press.