Murdoch University

Course Details

Bachelor of Arts (Australian Indigenous Studies)

Course Description

This major explores a range of contemporary issues affecting Australian Indigenous peoples' life experiences and aspirations. It provides students with opportunities to engage with both the resilient nature of Australian Indigenous cultures as well as contemporary forms of Indigenous cultural expression, including song, dance, story, art, film and theatre. A range of interdisciplinary conceptual tools is utilised, including critical race theory and emerging Indigenous critical theory, to further the project of decolonising knowledges on and about Indigenous peoples. In so doing, the major also encourages students to examine the issues of personal and national identity, and the relationship between these, themselves and Aboriginality.

Course Duration

NumberDuration
3year

Career outcomes

Policy Advisors Social Worker Correctional Treatment Specialist .




Bachelor of Arts (Australian Indigenous Studies) Murdoch University