• Broadly understand colonialism and how it has impacted Indigenous lives in the Australian context;
• Connect with the concept of decolonising methodologies and understand how they might support Indigenous identity and connection to culture and Country;
• Consider Indigenous methodologies related to engaging with and understanding place.

• The White Possessive: Property, Power, and Indigenous Sovereignty (book) by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
• Talkin' up to the White Woman (book) by Aileen Moreton-Robinson
• Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous People (Book) by Linda Tuhiwai Smith 
• The Koori History Website by Gary Foley. 
• Dark Emu (Book) by Bruce Pascoe
• IndigenousX
• Indigenous Knowledge and the Cultural Interface:
  underlying issues at the intersection of knowledge
  and information systems (Journal Article) by Martin Nakata 

• Understand and work with the concept of epistemology.
• Establish a preliminary understanding of the relationship between race, knowledge, power and representation.
• Identify and theorise both general and particular instances of power relations occurring within, across and beyond the university.

• Connect with the many stories and histories of the suburb of Fitzroy and understand the significance of this urban place for Victoria’s First Peoples;
• Consider the different ways, in European and Aboriginal frameworks, that history is created and shared;
• Understand the significance of Aboriginal places outside the cultural framework of Country.

Essay 1

Essay 2

• To understand the specific experiences of Kulin people in relation to the invasion and colonisation of Australia;
• To understand the oppressive systems experienced by Aboriginal people in the Southeast in the nineteenth century;
• To understand the government framework of ‘protection’ of this era.

• Understand ontologies, axiologies, epistemologies and methodologies;
• Critically engage with relevance of citation practices to the politics of knowledge production;
• Understand the concept of the Canon and methods by which they can analyse their own techniques of text selection.
• Develop tools and strategies to identify a position from which to engage in and contribute to knowledge production by means of reading, writing and citation practices.
• What are citation practices? What is the relationship between citation and the canon?
• What are some of the benefits of citation shaping disciplines?
• What question might you ask when you are reading a text, if you have a critical citation practice?

• Who is telling the story?
• What is the purpose of the writing?
• What and who can be known and who are the knowers? In other words, who are the 'experts'? where and how do they become 'experts'? What power do 'experts' hold? And how is it reproduced?