CORE: Humanities

What is the subject about?

The Humanities provide a framework for students to examine the complex processes that have shaped the modern world and to investigate responses to different challenges including people’s interconnections with the environment. In Civics and Citizenship and Business, students explore the systems that shape society, with a specific focus on legal and economic systems. Students learn about Australia’s role in global systems, and are encouraged to appreciate democratic principles and to contribute as active, informed and responsible citizens. In History and Geography, students explore the processes that have shaped and which continue to shape different societies and cultures, to appreciate the common humanity shared across time and distance, and to evaluate the ways in which humans have faced and continue to face different challenges.

Units

• History. 
• Civics and Citizenship.
• Geography. 
• Business. 

Skills you will develop

• Analyse and evaluate historical sources and create historical arguments.
• Explain and discuss and Australian citizenship and compete Australian parliamentary systems.
• Analysing perceptions of place,  interconnections of trade and tourism and human wellbeing
• Identify, compare and evaluate markets, the consumer and enterprise.

Assessment

• History thinkers key.
• Civics and citizenship test.
• Global wellbeing investigation and oral presentation.
• Business plan development. 

Pathways

Studying Humanities can lead to the following careers:

• Journalist 
• Lawyer 
• Social worker  
• Politician 
• Psychologist 
• Teacher 

Prerequisites – Completed Yr9 CORE History unit. 

If you are interested in this subject please see your Humanities teacher.