Cultural Awareness
Short Courses
Short Courses
Short courses run for a day or less and provide the basics in beginning to understand Indigenous perspectives, culture and communication barriers and improve intercultural skills.
Introduction
Cultural Awareness
Short Courses
Introduction to Cultural Awareness
This introductory course is a recommended as an introduction for building a better understanding of and improving your interactions with Indigenous people. It is especially designed for those groups and organisations that have direct impact or interaction with Indigenous people and their communities, or organisations that would like to give all their personnel some background to Indigenous culture.
There are many misunderstandings about Australian Aboriginal Culture that undermine attempts to reach reconciliation or improve national Indigenous outcomes. This course targets these misunderstandings and provides participants an opportunity to explore solutions.
Summary of Contents
Cultural Awareness
Short Courses
Summary of Contents
The short course runs for 4 hours. Participants will experience practical teaching on Australian Aboriginal Culture in terms that make sense to non-indigenous Australians.
The course explains the functioning of traditional Australian Aboriginal society, by comparison and contrast with Western systems. We use this background in traditional culture to better understand contemporary Indigenous culture and briefly examine the pitfalls commonly encountered by non-indigenous Australians when relating to Indigenous people.
Topics covered include: