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Tranby Aboriginal College Offers Course to Non Indigenous Students

Due to overwhelming demand, Tranby Aboriginal College is offering an Aboriginal Studies Evening Course to non-Indigenous people, starting later this month reports this media release from Tranby on 7 October 2009.

The Evening Course, which the College has previously run over consecutive years with great success, will draw upon materials from Tranby’s nationally accredited Diploma of Aboriginal Studies course. Topics covered will include:

  • Aboriginal world views (including Dreaming/Creation Time, construction of identity through land and family, changing bases of identity and knowing in contemporary society) Invasion (including pre contact, invasion, Aboriginal response, genocide)
  • Colonisation (including protection, assimilation, reconciliation)
  • Kinship and community (including bases of kinship, how kinship systems govern relationship in contemporary communities)
  • Land and law (including Aboriginal relationships with the land, native title and land rights)
  • Social justice (including Aboriginal experiences within legal, education, health and other social systems, recent developments in government policy and Aboriginal self determination)

“Indigenous affairs are currently at the fore of political public debate, due to the recent Apology to the Stolen Generations and the NT intervention. The Aboriginal Studies Evening Course is an excellent opportunity for people from the non-indigenous community to gain an insight into Indigenous cultures- past and present- to give these current affairs a broader social and political context”, says Tranby’s Executive Director, Lindon Coombes.

Delivered over 6 weeks in 2 hour blocks, the Evening Course will run each Tuesday evening, starting at 6:30 from October 20th to November 24th. The cost of the course is $500, which includes all course materials and light refreshments.

For more information, please contact Tranby Aboriginal College: (02) 9660 3444 admin@tranby.edu.au