Year 10 Subjects and Course Examples

Year 10 Core & Elective Subjects   

  

CORE  

English 

(Year-long) 

All students:    

OR 

EA students & students with a College invitation:  

English  

 

Enhanced English  

Mathematics 

(Year-long) 

  

 Choose 1 of:                      

  

VCE VM Numeracy 

Units 1 & 2  

Core Mathematics – General  
Core Mathematics – Methods  
 OR  
EA students & students with a College invitation Enhanced Mathematics  
Science  

All students choose one of:  

  

  

Physics and Chemistry of Motion (Semester-based) 

Biology and Chemistry of Life 

(Semester-based) 

 

Science2 (Squared) 

(Year-long) 

Humanities 

(Semester-based) 

Choose at least one Humanities Elective from the selection below.  

  

  

  

ELECTIVES   
The Arts  

 

  

Semester-based   

  

Music Performance  
Drama – Devising Theatre 
Media Arts ‘Film’  
Media Arts ‘Social Media & Design’  
Studio Art  
Visual Communication Design  
Design & Technologies  

 

  

Semester-based   

Applied Computing  
Emerging Technologies, Systems & Design  
Project Runway   
Food Studies  
Product Design & Technology (Wood, Metal, Plastic)  
English  

 

 Semester-based  

Literature  
Philosophy  
 Writers’ Workshop  
Health & Physical Education  

 

  

 Semester-based  

First Aid and Coaching  
Lifestyle Physical Activity 
Outdoor Education  
 Sports Science  
 What the Health? An Introduction to VCE HHD  
Humanities  

 

  

  

 Semester-based  

  

  

Accounting  
Economics and Business  
Get Up! Stand Up! (Movements and Rights in Australian Society – History)  
Global Issues   
Legal Studies  
People, Planet and the Future (Geography & Environmental Science) 
The World at War (History)  
Languages  

 Year-long 

  

German  
Japanese  
Science  
 Semester-based Psychology  
People, Planet and the Future (Geography & Environmental Science) 
VET and VCE VM  
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VET (external)   

Year 10 Course Examples