TCE Geography Level 3

🎓Course Type	Pre-tertiary
TASC Code	GGY315120
TCE Points	15
⏱Hours	150
✔️Standard	Reading and Writing (Literacy)
📚Prerequisites	Humanities courses require no previous content knowledge or prior subject experience.
📎Desirable prior experiences	'C' or higher in Year 10 Humanities or English (to study in Year 11) SA or higher in a HASS/English Level 3 (to study in Year 12)
📝Assessment	Internal and external assessment. Criterion based. Examination - Yes Folio/Investigation - No

What will I learn?

Together, we will appreciate the complexity of our world and the diversity of its environments, economies and cultures. Geography provides us with a structured, disciplinary framework to investigate and analyse a range of challenges and associated opportunities facing Australia and the global community.

These challenges include:

rapid change in biophysical environments
the sustainability of places
dealing with environmental risks
the consequences of international integration

Geography a provides a systematic, integrative way of exploring, analysing and applying the concepts of place, space, environment, interconnection, sustainability, scale and change.

Content
Unit 1: Sustainable Places	Challenges faced in a megacity in a developing country
Unit 2: Human Impact on Land Cover Change	Anthropogenic climate change.
Unit 3: Globalisation	International cultural OR economic integration

Why should I consider this course?

If you:

are interested in promoting a more sustainable way of life
want a deeper awareness of social and spatial inequalities
want to know more about the interconnections between places
appreciate the dynamic nature of the world in which you live

What Skills does this course provide?

Geography as a discipline values imagination, creativity and speculation as modes of thought. Through the study of Geography learners develop the ability to identify, evaluate and justify appropriate sustainable approaches to geographical issues, as well as skills in communication, investigation, analysis, numeracy, problem solving and decision-making. The application of conceptual knowledge in the context of an inquiry, and the application of geographical skills, constitute 'thinking geographically' - a uniquely powerful way of viewing the world.

What Pathway Options does this course provide?

The skills developed during this course help prepare students for a number of university and non-university pathways which can lead to careers and employment in areas such as:

Historian, Cultural or Conservation Heritage Officer, Economic Historian, Geographical Historian, Teacher (Primary, Secondary) University Lecturer/Academic, Screenwriter, Playwright, Media Advisor, Communications Officer, Publishing Editor, Fact-checker, Publisher, Writer/Author, Journalist, Environmental Lawyer, Solicitor, Criminologist, Conservator, Management Consultant, Manager Human Resources, Policy Advisor, Policy and Planning Manager, Policy Analyst, Political Scientist, Foreign Affairs and Trade officer, Parliamentarian, Business Consultant, Resource Economist, Community Worker, Social Researcher Counsellor, Student Advisor, Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Welfare Case Manager, Welfare Worker, Youth Worker, Social Work, Sustainability Activist.