MGSC Curriculum Handbook

VCE studies overview

VCE terms

Completion of the VCE What is the VCE?, Prerequisites for Unit 3 & Unit 4, Subject Preference Order, Assessment, Authentication, Special Provision

VCE Vocational Major (VCE VM) VCE VM Subjects at MGSC

CHES Centre for Higher Education Studies

Accounting Unit 1: Role of accounting in business, Unit 2: Accounting and decision-making for a trading business, Unit 3: Financial accounting for a trading business, Unit 4: Recording, reporting, budgeting and decision-making

Art Creative Practice Unit 1: Interpreting artworks and exploring the Creative Practice, Unit 2: Interpreting artworks and developing the Creative Practice, Unit 3: Investigation, ideas, artworks and the Creative Practice Artworks ideas and values, Unit 4: Interpreting, resolving and presenting artworks and the Creative Practice Artworks, ideas and viewpoints

Biology Unit 1: How do organisms regulate their functions?, Unit 2: How does inheritance impact on diversity?, Unit 3: How do cells maintain life?, Unit 4: How does life change and respond to challenges?

Business Management Unit 1: Planning a business, Unit 2: Establishing a business, Unit 3: Managing a business, Unit 4: Transforming a business

Chemistry Unit 1: How can the diversity of materials be explained?, Unit 2: How do chemical reactions shape the natural world?, Unit 3: How can design and innovation help to optimise chemical processes?, Unit 4: How are carbon-based compounds designed for purpose?

English Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4

English as an Additional Language Unit 1, Unit 2, Unit 3, Unit 4

Literature Unit 1, Unit 2 , Unit 3, Unit 4

Economics Unit 1: Economic decision-making, Unit 2: Economic issues and living standards, Unit 3: Australia’s living standards, Unit 4: Managing the economy

Environmental Science Unit 1: How are Earth’s dynamic systems interconnected to support life?, Unit 2: What affects Earth’s capacity to sustain life?, Unit 3: How can biodiversity and development be sustained?, Unit 4: How can climate change and the impacts of human energy use be managed?

Food Studies Unit 1: Food origins, Unit 2: Food makers, Unit 3: Food in daily life, Unit 4: Food issues, challenges and futures

Global Politics Unit 1: Politics, power and political actors, Unit 2: Democracy: stability and change, Unit 3: Global cooperation and conflict, Unit 4: Power in the Indo-Pacific

Health & Human Development Unit 1: Understanding health and wellbeing, Unit 2: Managing health and development, Unit 3: Australia’s health in a globalised world, Unit 4: Health and human development in a global context

History Units 1 & 2: Empires , Units 3 & 4: Revolutions

Languages Units 1 & 2, Units 3 & 4

Legal Studies Unit 1: Guilt and liability, Unit 2: Sanctions, remedies and rights, Unit 3: Rights and justice, Unit 4: The people, the law and reform

Mathematics overview Pathways for studies in Mathematics , Exams

General Mathematics

Mathematics Methods

Specialist Mathematics

Foundation Maths

Media Unit 1: Media forms, representations and Australian stories , Unit 2: Narrative across media forms , Unit 3: Media narratives, contexts and pre-production , Unit 4: Media production; agency and control in and of the media

Music Units 1 & 2: Music, Units 3 & 4: Music Repertoire Performance, Units 3 & 4: Music Contemporary Performance, Units 3 & 4: Music Inquiry

Outdoor & Environmental Studies Unit 3: Relationships with natural environments, Unit 4: Sustainable outdoor environments

Physical Education Unit 1: Bodies in motion, Unit 2: Physical activity, sport and society, Unit 3: Movement skills and energy for physical activity, Unit 4: Training to improve performance, Video presentation

Physics Unit 1: How is energy useful to society?, Unit 2: How does physics help us to understand the world?, Unit 3: How do fields explain motion and electricity?, Unit 4: How have creative ideas and investigation revolutionised thinking in physics?

Product Design & Technology Unit 1: Design practices, Unit 2: Positive impacts for end users, Unit 3: Ethical product design and development, Unit 4: Production and evaluation of ethical designs

Psychology Unit 1: How are behaviour and mental processes shaped?, Unit 2: How do internal and external factors influence behaviour and mental processes?, Unit 3: How does experience affect behaviour and mental processes?, Unit 4: How is wellbeing developed and maintained?

Sociology Unit 1: Youth and family, Unit 2: Deviance and Crime, Unit 3: Culture and ethnicity, Unit 4: Community, social movements and social change

Theatre Studies Unit 1: History of theatre styles and conventions pre-1945, Unit 2: Contemporary theatre styles and movements, Unit 3: Producing theatre, Unit 4: Presenting an interpretation

Visual Communication Design Unit 1: Finding, reframing and resolving design problems, Unit 2: Design contexts and connections, Unit 3: Visual communication in design practice, Unit 4: Delivering design solutions

About VET Some VCE VET studies offered

Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance Overview, Studying the Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance at Holmesglen

Certificate II in Animal Care Career Outcomes

Certificate II in Apparel, Fashion & Textiles

Certificate III in Beauty Services Overview, Studying the Certificate III in Beauty Services at Holmesglen, Entry Requirements, Timetable

Certificate II in Dance

Certificate III in Early Childhood Education & Care Overview, Studying the Certificate III in Early Childhood Education and Care at Holmesglen, Entry Requirements, Timetable, Career Opportunities

Certificate III in Events Overview, Studying the Certificate III in Events at Holmesglen, Entry Requirements, Timetable, Career Opportunities

Certificate II in Hospitality Overview, Studying the Certificate II in Hospitality at Holmesglen, Entry Requirements, Timetable, Career Opportunities

Certificate III in Information Technology Overview, Studying the Certificate III in Information Technology at Holmesglen, Entry Requirements, Career Opportunities, Qualification and Recognition

Certificate III in Laboratory Skills Overview, Studying the Certificate III in Laboratory Skills at Holmesglen, Entry Requirements, Timetable, Career Opportunities

Certificate III in Music (Performance)

Certificate III in Sport, Aquatics & Recreation Overview, Studying the Certificate III in Sport, Aquatics and Recreation at Holmesglen, Entry Requirements, Timetable, Career Opportunities, Qualification and Recognition

Certificate III in Tourism Overview, Studying the Certificate III in Tourism at Holmesglen, Entry Requirements, Timetable, Career Opportunities

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2026 VCE Curriculum Information · 29 May 2025

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