I’ve just received news that our proposed major in Australian Indigenous Studies has been signed off on by the final university committee. The approval was a lengthy process as the proposal was vetted by ascending layers of university committees.
It’s the only interdisciplinary Australian Indigenous Studies major in Australia, founded on the principles of intellectual exchange, interdisciplinarity, and social relevance.
The major itself was developed during 2008 - a difficult year for everyone in the Faculty of Arts, and it would have been easy to walk away, but I know from experience that its often in times of organisational turmoil, or what Dabrowski would term ‘creative disintegration’, that opportunities for innovation and rapid development arise.
The AIS team is now developing teaching templates for all the AIS major subjects for 2010. The challenge is to develop ways to maximise the intellectual inputs of lecturers perpetually short of time.
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