Throughout this unit, you will be asked to complete various activities outlined in the weekly Learning Modules. These might involve you discussing and reflecting on a topic, participating in a group activity or challenge, researching something, or finding and sharing relevant resources with your classmates in Discussion threads. Each week there will be a challenge or a task that you will be expected to complete and share in the workshop.

FIVE of these activities will be nominated as requirements for your workbook. These are must do tasks. Which activities are workbook tasks and what you are required to do will be outlined in weekly Modules. You will also submit a short reflection on what you have learned in the unit along with your final workbook submission. The main purpose of the workbook tasks is to facilitate your engagement in weekly activities, but they will also test your academic skills like writing, researching and referencing. This means they are not simply box-ticking exercises – you can fail these exercises if they are not sufficiently academic or do not meet requirements.

You will be required to submit:

• 5 workbook exercises of 250-300 words each in weeks 3, 5, 7, 10 and 13 (5% each)
• One 250-300 word reflection on what you have learned in the unit along with your workbook submission in week 13 (5%)

Each workbook task must include one properly referenced academic source (APA 7 style).

If you are unable to attend any workshops, these tasks may be completed in a study group that you organise with peers at your own convenience.

• Creative problem solving in response to challenges
• Reporting succinctly on challenge task activities and what you learned from them
• Reflecting on your learning process and identifying knowledge gaps for future study
• Applying key concepts and ideas from the course material to practical situations
• Participating in group activities and actively supporting peers’ learning.

Two online quizzes will take place on weeks 5-6 and 11-12. The first quiz will open after our week 5 class and assess content from weeks 1-5, and the second will open after week 11 and assess weeks 6-11. Each quiz will consist of 10 multiple choice questions drawn randomly from a larger pool. Questions will each be worth 1% (total of 10% per quiz/20% overall).

Quizzes are designed to gauge your comprehension of course content. Only content from Set Readings and Modules will be included in the quiz – optional/additional readings and videos will not be assessed (although they might be interesting and/or helpful for other assessments!)

Each quiz will open on Friday morning and stay open for one week. Once you start the quiz, you will have 24 hours to complete it.

• Comprehension of set reading materials
• Application of concepts from the readings to topics in this unit
• Ability to critically evaluate propositions.

For this assessment, you will choose one of the following four issues to examine:

1. Black Lives Matter: Aboriginal deaths in custody in a global context
2. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women in the criminal justice system
3. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander youths in the criminal justice system
4. Self-determination and innovative solutions to the over-representation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in the criminal justice system.

Focusing on one of these topics, you will conduct your own research and identify relevant academic sources (e.g. peer-reviewed journal articles, books, and appropriate 'grey literature'). You will utilise these sources to explain how historical and contemporary colonial practices and experiences of colonialism continue to affect Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in their interactions with the criminal justice system. You should also be able to employ key concepts, ideas and theoretical terms from the course content in your analysis of your chosen issue.

This assessment has three parts:

PART 1: 400 words

Find two peer-reviewed journal articles. Both articles need to be relevant to your chosen topic, and at least one of them must be authored/co-authored by an Australian First Nations person. Correctly reference each article in APA 7 style. Under each one, note what the key points are for each article and what it contributes for your chosen topic. You need to show that you understand the key points of the article, and that you can use it to add to your own discussion.

PART 2: 600 words

Put together a brief background to your chosen topic, addressing how historical and/or current practices of colonialism impact your chosen issue. You should use as references your two journal articles from Part 1, as well as one grey literature report and at least one other appropriate source.

PART 3: 600 words

For Part 3, you'll look at possible solutions and efforts to address your chosen issue. Outline some interesting initiatives in this space and/or some Aboriginal-controlled organisations working on this problem. What do they do? What programs or services do they work on, and what strategy or approach do they take? Are they culturally appropriate? Do they respect self-determination? What do they do well, and what still needs more work?

Submission:

You will submit drafts of Part 1 & Part 2 throughout the term in weeks 6 and 11 respectively. Draft submissions will not be graded, but they are hurdle requirements, meaning that you must submit something in order to pass the assessment (but you can edit/change things later). This is so that you have the opportunity to discuss your ideas and receive input and feedback as you go along. You will be graded on all 3 parts together when you submit your completed paper at the end of the term.

• Part 1 draft due Monday 22/8 5:00pm AEST
• Part 2 draft due Monday 26/9 5:00pm AEST
• Final submission Parts 1, 2 & 3 due Monday 17/10 5:00pm AEST.

• Comprehension of coloniality/postcolonial theory and application of key ideas to chosen issue
• Critically evaluating the impact of colonialism on the experiences of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples within the criminal justice system
• Use of appropriate academic research and statistics to support an argument
• Understanding and explaining culturally sensitive approaches to justice
• Referencing according to APA 7 style guide.