Offered By	ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Academic Contact	Professor Nicolas Peterson, BA Camb., PhD Syd

The major in Indigenous Australian Studies enables students with an interest in Indigenous Australian studies to take a set of interrelated courses in different disciplines without the normal prerequisite required in each course. The major is an interdisciplinary program in which it is possible to combine courses from the majors in Anthropology; Archaeology; Art History; English; Gender, Sexuality and Culture; History; Linguistics; Politics; and Music for a broadly based understanding of Indigenous Australian societies and cultures, both past and present. Taken together, the courses provide a comprehensive insight into Indigenous Australian studies including Aboriginal origins, their occupation and adaptation to the continent, their traditional and contemporary social, cultural artistic, musical and linguistic practices, the impact of European colonisation, the history of the interrelationship between Aboriginal people and other Australians, the place of Indigenous people in Australian society today and issues of representation.

The School of Humanities offers ENGL1010 Indigenous Australian Literature as a first year course that should also be of interest to students undertaking this major.

Requirements

The requirements for the major are 42 units composed as follows:

1. 12 first-year units within the Faculty of Arts; plus
2. 30 later-year units from among the designated courses set out below

The information published on the Study at ANU 2009 website applies to the 2009 academic year only. All information provided on this website replaces the information contained in the Study at ANU 2008 website.