A candidate must successfully complete units totalling 240 credit points as detailed below. All units are valued at 10 credit points unless indicated.

Unit type	Credit Points	Specific requirements
Common (2 units)	20	Units totalling 20 credit points selected from Common Units available at the time (e.g. units coded with a prefix of "CUC"). Students must complete the compulsory regional and indigenous issues unit (CUC107) and one of the two Academic Communication Units: CUC107 Northern Perspectives (compulsory) Plus either: CUC100 Academic Literacies or CUC106 Design and Innovation: Communicating Technology Select Common Units to find out more about individual units or advanced standing options.
Core (3 units)	30	Compulsory Core units totalling 30 credit points: CIK100 Indigenous Knowledges: Studies in Culture (last offered in 2008) CIK101 Indigenous Experience and Colonisation (last offered in 2008) or CIK102 Indigenous Knowledges and Experience: Discovery and Colonisation CIK200 Contested Knowledges CIK300 Transacting Cultures: Communication and Negotiation (last offered in 2008) CIK301 Raced Identities (last offered in 2008) or CIK305 Cultural Transactions: Communication and Negotiation
Specialist Electives (6 units)	60	Specialist Elective units totalling 60 credit points selected from the list of available units detailed below: ***Units identified thus are repeatable units available in different teaching periods depending upon the School's planning schedule and budget. CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT, POLICY AND GOVERNANCE CIK210 Indigenous Knowledges: Representing and Recording Country CIK220 Arctic to Uluru: Comparative Studies in Indigenous Policy*** CIK230 Indigenous Engagements: Land and Water*** (repeatable unit) - Unit title for Study Period 2, 2010 is: Indigenous Land and Sea Management. CIK240 Indigenous Cultures and the Environment CIK310 Indigenous Cultural Economies (last offered in 2008) CIK320 Comparative Studies in Indigenous Cultures and Experience (last offered in 2008) or CIK340 Global Perspectives on Indigenous Nations CAS311 Indigenous Independent Study*** (the only project topic available in the 2009 internal, intensive SP2 offering will be "Australian Aboriginal Song and Dance". Students will study major performance traditions indigenous to northern Australia) YOLNGU CULTURE AND LANGUAGES CAS110 Introduction to Yolngu Languages and Culture CAS111 Yolngu Languages and Culture II CAS205 Yolngu Life and Literature CAS206 Yolngu Conversations CAS305 Yolngu Texts and Conversation CAS311 Indigenous Independent Study*** CIK320 Comparative Studies in Indigenous Cultures and Experience*** (last offered in 2008) or CIK340 Global Perspectives on Indigenous Nations HISTORY AND CULTURE HERITAGE To complete this specialisation, you need to complete the three units identified below offered through the School of Australian Indigenous Knowledges Systems and three units chosen from the list of units offered by the School of Creative Arts and Humanities. CIK210 Indigenous Knowledges: Representing and Recording Country CIK310 Indigenous Cultural Economies CIK320 Comparative Studies in Indigenous Cultures and Experience*** (last offered in 2008) or CIK340 Global Perspectives on Indigenous Nations Choose three units from the options listed below from the School of Creative Arts and Humanities ANY170 Introduction To Aboriginal Australia HIS142 Introduction to Australian History HIS149 Foundations of Western Civilisation 1 HIS150 Foundations of Western Civilisation 2 (last offered in 2008) ANY270 Australian Aboriginal And Islander Societies AHT232 Post-Modernism: Art, Culture and Theory AHT214 Indigenous Art in North Australia AHT313 Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art HIS246 North Australian History MUS391 Music in its Cultural Context: Ethnomusicology in North Australia and Beyond
Electives (13 units)	130	Units totalling 130 credit points selected from units offered by the University. Students may select additional units from one of the approved sequences as electives if desired.
	240	Total Credit Points

Of the total 240 credit points:
· Not more than 100 credit points may be taken from 100 level units
· A minimum of 40 credit points must be taken from 300 level units
· Not more than 30 credit points shall be included with a grade of "PT" or "PC" or "PS"

COURSE CHANGES
Students enrolled in this course prior to 2009 will note there have been minor changes to the course for 2009.
Any student who would like to seek clarification on their course progression, should contact the course coordinator.

Core Units
the number of core units have been reduced from 50 to 30 credit points.

• CIK100 and CIK101 have been discontinued and merged into a new unit called CIK102 Indigenous Knowledges and Experience: Discovery and Colonisation
• CIK300 and CIK301 have been discontinued and merged into a new unit called CIK305 Cultural Transactions: Communication and Negotiation

• completed either CIK100 or CIK101 or completed both CIK100 and CIK101 are not required to complete CIK102

• CIK310and CIK320 have been discontinued and merged into a new unit called CIK340 Global Perspectives on Indigenous Nations

Study plans for 2011 are accurate as at 3 August 2010. The University reserves the right to make changes up until 1 October 2010.  2011 unit offering and fee information will be available from 1 October 2010.

The Recommended Study Plan provided below is suitable for a student commencing in semester 1 and enrolling in a standard full time load.  Students entering this course with advanced standing, or wishing to vary their study plan due to work, personal, financial or other reasons should use the table as a guide to create an individual study plan.

When designing an individual study plan:

♦    ensure Common Units are completed in the first year of study;

♦    maintain the basic order in which units are to be attempted; and

♦    check the assumed knowledge for each unit as some 200 and 300 level units assume you have completed foundation unit/s in the subject area at a lower level.  200 level units have the unit code which includes a number starting with 200 i.e. CIK200.

Legend:

CU = Common Unit

CO = Core Unit

SE = Specialist Elective

E = Elective

Generic Study Plan for Students commencing in Semester 1

Semester 1		Semester 2
Year 1
CUC100 Academic Literacies	CU	CUC107 Northern Perspectives	CU
CIK102 Indigenous Knowledges and Experience: Discovery and Colonisation	CO	Elective 3	E
Elective 1	E	Elective 4	E
Elective 2	E	Elective 5	E
Year 2
CIK200 Contested Knowledges	CO	Specialist Elective (refer to list below)	SE
Specialist Elective (refer to list below)	SE	Specialist Elective (refer to list below)	SE
Elective 6	E	Elective 8	E
Elective 7	E	Elective 9	E
Year 3
CIK305 Cultural Transactions: Communication and Negotiation	CO	Specialist Elective (refer to list below)	SE
Elective 10	CO	Specialist Elective (refer to list below)	SE
Specialist Elective (refer to list below)	SE	Elective 12	E
Elective 11	E	Elective 13	E

SPECIALIST ELECTIVES

CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT, POLICY AND GOVERNANCE Specialisation

Semester 1		Semester 2
CIK230 Indigenous Engagements: Land and Water*** (repeatable unit) - Unit title for Study Period 2, 2010 is: Indigenous Land and Sea Management.	SE	CIK210 Indigenous Knowledges: Representing and Recording Country	SE
CIK220 Arctic to Uluru: Comparative Studies in Indigenous Policy***	SE	CIK240 Indigenous Cultures and the Environment	SE
CAS311 Indigenous Independent Study***	SE	CIK340 Global Perspectives on Indigenous Nations	SE
		CAS311 Indigenous Independent Study***	SE

YOLNGU CULTURE AND LANGUAGES Specialisation

Semester 1		Semester 2
CAS110 Introduction to Yolngu Languages and Culture	SE	CAS111 Yolngu Languages and Culture II	SE
CAS205 Yolngu Life and Literature	SE	CAS206 Yolngu Matha Conversations	SE
CAS305 Yolngu Texts and Conversation	SE	CIK240 Indigenous Cultures and the Environment	SE
CAS311 Indigenous Independent Study***	SE	CAS311 Indigenous Independent Study***	SE
		CIK340 Global Perspectives on Indigenous Nations	SE

HISTORY AND CULTURE HERITAGE Specialisation
Compulsory Specialist Electives for this Specialisation

Semester 1		Semester 2
CAS311 Indigenous Independent Study***	SE	CIK210 Indigenous Knowledges: Representing and Recording Country	SE
		CIK340 Global Perspectives on Indigenous Nations	SE

PLUS Choose three units from the options listed below from the School of Creative Arts and Humanities

Semester 1		Semester 2
AHT313 Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art	SE	ANY170 Introduction To Aboriginal Australia	SE
ANY270 Australian Aboriginal And Islander Societies	SE	AHT232 Post-Modernism: Art, Culture and Theory	SE
MUS391 Music in its Cultural Context: Ethnomusicology in North Australia and Beyond	SE	AHT214 Indigenous Art in North Australia	SE
		HIS142 Introduction to Australian History	SE
		HIS149 Foundations of Western Civilisation 1	SE
		HIS246 North Australian History	SE

Study plans for 2011 are accurate as at 3 August 2010. The University reserves the right to make changes up until 1 October 2010.  2011 unit offering and fee information will be available from 1 October 2010.

The Recommended Study Plan provided below is suitable for a student commencing in semester 2 and enrolling in a standard full time load.  Students entering this course with advanced standing, or wishing to vary their study plan due to work, personal, financial or other reasons should use the table as a guide to create an individual study plan.

When designing an individual study plan:

♦    ensure Common Units are completed in the first year of study;

♦    maintain the basic order in which units are to be attempted; and

♦    check the assumed knowledge for each unit as some 200 and 300 level units assume you have completed foundation unit/s in the subject area at a lower level.  200 level units have the unit code which includes a number starting with 200 i.e. CIK200.

Legend:

CU = Common Unit

CO = Core Unit

SE = Specialist Elective

E = Elective

Generic Study Plan for Students commencing in Semester 1

Semester 1		Semester 2
Year 1
		CUC107 Northern Perspectives	CU
		Elective 1	E
		Elective 2	E
		Elective 3	E
Year 2
CUC100 Academic Literacies	CU	Specialist Elective (refer to list below)	SE
CIK102 Indigenous Knowledges and Experience: Discovery and Colonisation	CO	Specialist Elective (refer to list below)	SE
Elective 4	E	Elective 6	E
Elective 5	E	Elective 7	E
Year 3
CIK200 Contested Knowledges	CO	Specialist Elective (refer to list below)	SE
Specialist Elective (refer to list below)	SE	Specialist Elective (refer to list below)	SE
Elective 8	E	Elective 10	E
Elective 9	E	Elective 11	E
Year 4
CIK305 Cultural Transactions: Communication and Negotiation	CO
Elective 12	E
Specialist Elective (refer to list below)	SE
Elective 13	E

SPECIALIST ELECTIVES
CULTURAL ENGAGEMENT, POLICY AND GOVERNANCE Specialisation

Semester 1		Semester 2
CIK230 Indigenous Engagements: Land and Water*** (repeatable unit) - Unit title for Study Period 2, 2010 is: Indigenous Land and Sea Management.	SE	CIK210 Indigenous Knowledges: Representing and Recording Country	SE
CIK220 Arctic to Uluru: Comparative Studies in Indigenous Policy***	SE	CIK240 Indigenous Cultures and the Environment	SE
CAS311 Indigenous Independent Study***	SE	CIK340 Global Perspectives on Indigenous Nations	SE
		CAS311 Indigenous Independent Study***	SE

YOLNGU CULTURE AND LANGUAGES Specialisation

Semester 1		Semester 2
CAS110 Introduction to Yolngu Languages and Culture	SE	CAS111 Yolngu Languages and Culture II	SE
CAS205 Yolngu Life and Literature	SE	CAS206 Yolngu Matha Conversations	SE
CAS305 Yolngu Texts and Conversation	SE	CIK240 Indigenous Cultures and the Environment	SE
CAS311 Indigenous Independent Study***	SE	CAS311 Indigenous Independent Study***	SE
		CIK340 Global Perspectives on Indigenous Nations	SE

HISTORY AND CULTURE HERITAGE Specialisation
Compulsory Specialist Electives for this Specialisation

Semester 1		Semester 2
CAS311 Indigenous Independent Study***	SE	CIK210 Indigenous Knowledges: Representing and Recording Country	SE
		CIK340 Global Perspectives on Indigenous Nations	SE

PLUS Choose three units from the options listed below from the School of Creative Arts and Humanities

Semester 1		Semester 2
AHT313 Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art	SE	ANY170 Introduction To Aboriginal Australia	SE
ANY270 Australian Aboriginal And Islander Societies	SE	AHT232 Post-Modernism: Art, Culture and Theory	SE
MUS391 Music in its Cultural Context: Ethnomusicology in North Australia and Beyond	SE	AHT214 Indigenous Art in North Australia	SE
		HIS142 Introduction to Australian History	SE
		HIS149 Foundations of Western Civilisation 1	SE
		HIS246 North Australian History	SE