Beginning in Semester 1 2014, CAEPR will will offering a number of new undergraduate courses as part of the Indigenous studies minor. Indigenous studies students at ANU will engage with distinguished scholars working with Indigenous people across Australia to develop and deepen their understandings of peoples, populations, and communities.
Indigenous studies is concerned with the place of Indigenous people in Australian society, in social, cultural, economic, political and historical terms. ANU offers the opportunity to undertake Indigenous studies as an undergraduate minor. The minor is interdisciplinary, and it is possible to undertake courses from anthropology, archaeology, art, gender studies, history, linguistics, music, public policy and sociology.
Topics available for study in the Indigenous Studies minor include:
- Anthropology of traditional and contemporary
- Indigenous societies
- Archaeology and cultural heritage management
- Art and visual culture
- Australian languages
- Development studies
- Gender studies
- Indigenous Australian history
- Language policy and politics
- Music and media
- Peoples, populations and communities
- Public policy development and implementation
- Trauma and memory studies.
For more information, see the list of CAEPR undergraduate courses.