Yolŋu Studies at CDU

Study options

Yolŋu studies can be studied face to face at Casuarina campus, and some units will be available externally.

For more information choose from:

• Studying from Darwin
• Studying from outside Darwin
• Studying from overseas
• Available Courses
• Costs

Studying from Darwin
If you want to do evening classes, not for university credit, a series of five two hour classes are held in the SAIKS Seminar Room, Casuarina campus, building 30 in March and April each year. Students are taught concurrently with the enrolled students. The cost is $440 which includes books and a CD.

If you want to study for credit, you can enrol in a Bachelor of Indigenous Knowledges (BIK), a Graduate Certificate Yolŋu Studies (GCYS) or a Graduate Diploma in Indigenous Knowledge (GDIK, if you are a graduate). Let us know (yolngustudies@cdu.edu.au) that you are intending to enrol, and then apply for admission online, or by coming in to the faculty.

(If you just want to study one unit, it is in fact cheaper to enrol in the whole award, and pay the fees for one semester, than it is to enrol in a single unit.)

Using the online admission facility for undergraduate students or postgraduate students apply for admission through SATAC into the Bachelor of IK or the Grad Cert in Yolŋu Studies (or another award). When you have been given the go-ahead, you will be given an enrolment number. Enrol in CAS110 Introduction to Yolngu Languages and Culture.

If you want to study Yolŋu languages and culture as part of an award from another faculty or another university, speak to your course coordinator about the possibility of crediting SAIKS units to your award.

Study options

Studying from outside Darwin
If you want to enrol with the School of Australian Indigenous Knowledge Systems at CDU, you can enrol in a Bachelor of ICNRM, a Graduate Certificate of Yolŋu Studies (if you are a graduate), or any number of other awards at SAIKS (see below) or other faculties (see the CDU website).

Using the online admission facility for undergraduate students or postgraduate students apply for admission into the Bachelor of IK, Grad Dip IK, the Grad Cert in Yolŋu Studies (or another award). When you have been given the go-ahead, you will be given a student number. Enrol in CAS110 Introduction to Yolŋu Languages and Culture.

If you are already enrolled at another university, and would like to study Yolŋu Languages and Culture and credit it towards your degree, contact your course coordinator and ask about cross-institutional study from the cdu website in current students->forms. All the online units are available at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. Confirm with us that you are allowed to study our units. Forms for cross-institutional study may be downloaded from www.cdu.edu.au from current students, forms.

Study options

Studying from overseas
You can enrol in either a Graduate Certificate in Yolŋu Studies (4 units or 40 credit points), or a Graduate Diploma in Indigenous Knowledge (8 units or 80 credit points). Both programs articulate into other awards if you choose to study further.

Using the online admission facility for international students apply for admission into the Grad Cert in Yolŋu Studies or the Grad. Dip IK (or another award). When you have been given the go-ahead, you will be given an student number. You then need to pay your fees into a bank, and notify the university and us (see below). Then you will be able to enrol in CAS110 Introduction to Yolŋu Languages and Culture.

IF YOU HAVE ANY PROBLEMS, CONTACT yolngustudies@cdu.edu.au

Study options

Available Courses
You can study Yolŋu languages and culture in the following awards from the School of Australian Indigenous Knowledge Systems:

• Bachelor of Indigenous Knowledges
  (240 credit points)
• Graduate Certificate in Yolŋu Studies
  (40 credit points)
• Graduate Diploma in Indigenous Knowledges
  (80 credit points)

It will soon be possible for all the above awards except the Bachelor program to be accessed entirely through external, online delivery.

Study options

Costs
Evening classes, not for credit - $440 (materials included), concessions $340.

Do you want to study in an award from the university and would like information about fees? Click on the following links for details of fees for domestic students, commonwealth support for domestic students, or fees for international students.

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