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This course is a core component of the Bachelor of Global Indigenous Studies program which provides students with a professional placement in an associated workforce related to the student's major studies. The placement is the equivalent of 210 hours and is designed to maximise Aboriginal-related experiences in a cross-cultural work environment.

In this course, you will begin to learn how to teach Aboriginal Studies in secondary contexts. You will use relevant syllabus documents to develop innovative and engaging lesson plans. You will learn and practise a range of effective teaching strategies designed to engage a diversity of learners in a safe and supportive classroom environment. You will learn how to use digital and other innovative resources to assess and improve learning in the discipline and to develop language, literacy and numeracy skills across the curriculum. Through self and peer evaluation you will also learn how to present yourself in a professional, supportive manner.

This course introduces you to contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art by examining current practices and discourses and the histories and theories that shape them. Focused through a series of specific artist case studies, the course aims to facilitate rigorous discussion and analysis of contemporary First Nations' art in Australia as well as its intersections with complex and diverse social, cultural, political, and artistic contexts. By privileging First Nations' voices and perspectives and by enabling close analysis and detailed discussions, the course will deepen your engagement and appreciation of the diversity of Indigenous artistic and cultural practices.

Mathematics went through quite a revolution around the turn of the 20th century. In particular, an axiomatic approach infiltrated the mathematical paradigm, both as a tool to ensure mathematical rigour and to abstract common principles working in a variety of different settings.