The University’s First Nations Strategy reflects the university’s dedication to embedding First Nations perspectives, leadership and knowledge systems across all aspects of its operations from education and research to governance, community engagement and workforce development.
This pedagogical framework guides you in how to provide students with knowledge and understanding of Indigenous cultures, histories, and contemporary contexts. It supports development of students' self and professional critical reflexivity. Graduates will be equipped with discipline-specific and culturally appropriate skills and strategies to prepare them for working effectively with First Nations clients and/or communities.
Learn more about the framework
Indigenous Board of Studies and Indigenous Australian Content in Courses and Subjects Policy provide the governance that ensures that graduates embrace our ethos described by the Wiradyuri phase ‘yindyamarra winhanganha’ in their personal and professional lives by equipping them with:
Charles Sturt’s Graduate Learning Outcomes (GLOs) are a set of common learning outcomes that have been written to assist course teams with alignment between standards, course & subject outcomes, and assessment.
First Nations Cultural Safety Graduation Learning Outcome (GLO) short course in Brightspace incorporates the Indigenous Cultural Competency Pedagogical Framework and is a valuable guide for embedding First Nations content into curriculum and provides additional guidance in the Indigenous Board of Studies submission and approval process.
Topics include:
Learn more about the First Nations Cultural Safety GLO
The School of Indigenous Australian Studies (SIAS) has responsibility for teaching core Indigenous Australian studies subjects.
SIAS also provides leadership in curriculum design and guidance in Indigenous Australian studies across multiple disciplines in undergraduate and postgraduate course work.
The school also hosts the Graduate Certificate in Wiradjuri Language which a senior Wiradjuri educator and researcher coordinate.
SIAS has also developed a terminology guide. Extract from the guide:
"There is no rulebook when it comes to using appropriate terminology regarding First Nations Peoples of Australia and their experiences. The purpose of this Guide is to emphasise the importance of considering the terms we use, and the histories and assumptions that may be embedded within them. The aim is to encourage you to work towards developing and using language in a way that acknowledges the diversity of First Nations Peoples and the resilience and strengths within their experiences. It is also about recognising, acknowledging and challenging racial and cultural based inequalities that continue to exist in our societies and which can be reinforced through the use of language"