Acknowledgement of Country - micro-credential

What you will learn

Gain contemporary skills and knowledge for your job now.

Delivering a meaningful Acknowledgement of Country means embracing the depth that belongs in the Country on which we stand.

This course centres Indigenous approaches to learning and creating to provide the grounding knowledge needed to appreciate our relationship with Place and, in turn, deliver a meaningful Acknowledgement of Country.

It's valuable for anyone seeking to deepen their cultural understanding of Indigenous connection to place and Country and create culturally literate and informed frameworks for engaging with its peoples.

Deepen your cultural understanding and awareness

Be introduced to Indigenous knowledge frameworks and approaches to community, relationships, and interconnectedness. Explore cultural protocols and how to responsibly apply principles of cultural safety when working with Indigenous cultures or communities.

Encounter Indigenous technologies and creative practices

Learning in a way that uses hand and mind working together, you'll engage in the practice of string-making, plus hear stories about what the practice represents and how it was learnt and reawakened. You'll also learn to identify materials and traditional Indigenous technologies from Country.

Write and present a meaningful Acknowledgement of Country

With this deeper understanding, you'll be guided to write and present an Acknowledgement of Country that is culturally safe, grounded in place, and appropriate to your own position in Australian life.

This micro-credential runs over six weeks.

Your total time commitment is 42 hours, which includes approximately:

• 9 hours guided learning
• 20 hours independent study
• 13 hours assessment activities.

Assessment:

• Acknowledgement of Country: a six-minute video presentation of an Acknowledgement of Country that follows Indigenous cultural protocols and diplomacies (50%)
• Making practice: a digital portfolio that presents both a creative outcome and a reflective text or video presentation. The making practice uses string as the primary material (50%).

Once you've successfully completed this course, you will be awarded your Acknowledgement of Country Melbourne MicroCert. This digital certificate will warrant the achievement of knowledge, skills and capabilities outlined in the learning outcomes. It may also include artefacts (such as videos and written material) related to both experiential and work-integrated learning, including translatable assessment that is practical to your professional life. You can also share your Melbourne MicroCert digitally and via social media by adding it to your personal platforms, such as LinkedIn. See example certificate.

Acknowledgement of Country can be taken as a stand-alone micro-credential or you can complement it with any other course in the Wilin Online Cultural Literacies series.

This series includes:

• Acknowledgement of Country
• Sharing of Indigenous Knowledges
• Indigenous Cultural and Creative IP
• Indigenous Community Research.

This course is delivered entirely online, allowing you to learn in your own time, from a location that suits you. The creative skills and techniques will be demonstrated via short how-to videos, which you can stop and start at your own pace. Further knowledge and stories will be shared via a series of short podcasts and video interviews, designed for you to replay as you engage in the practice of making.