This course is valuable for anyone seeking to deepen their cultural awareness and engage respectfully with Indigenous cultures and communities.

It's particularly beneficial for teachers and education professionals, arts workers and practitioners, community and cultural development workers, and corporate, business or government leaders.

There are no eligibility requirements.

This course will give you a richer understanding of Indigenous cultural protocols. No matter your industry, this is vital for professionals in every sector who strive to be more inclusive, collaborative, and respectful of Indigenous peoples and knowledges.

By the end of this micro-credential, you will be able to:

• Respond to the significance of Country to the continuation, reclamation and revitalisation of Indigenous cultural and creative practices in Australia
• Apply principles of cultural safety in complex relational, intercultural experiences to develop creative works and reflection on practice
• Critically analyse your own relationship to knowledges, technologies, place, creative and cultural practices shared while enacting principles of cultural safety.

This micro-credential runs over six weeks.

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

• 9 hours guided learning
• 20 hours self study
• 13 hours assessment activities

Assessment:

• Digital Portfolio: a six minute video presentation that provides a creative outcome and reflects on the materials used, and cultural protocols followed, for dyeing and weaving plant material (50%).
• Practice-oriented research proposal: a research proposal (625 words) that identifies protocols for practicing cultural safety when working with Indigenous communities, and explores techniques for preserving and safely returning historic artefacts (50%).

Once you've successfully completed this course, you will be awarded your Indigenous Community Research 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.

Indigenous Community Research 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

To get the most out of this course, we recommend taking Acknowledgement of Country first.

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.

This micro-credential expires after five years.