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

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VCE Vocational Major (VCE VM) VCE VM subject overviews

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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: What makes water such a unique chemical?, 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

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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 Actors, Unit 4: Global Challenges

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 French, Japanese, 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 and the law

Mathematics overview What Mathematics pathway should I choose in VCE?, Pathways for studies in Mathematics , VCE Foundation Mathematics

General Mathematics Units 1 & 2: General Mathematics, Units 3 & 4: General Mathematics

Mathematics Methods Units 1 & 2: Mathematical Methods, Units 3 & 4: Mathematical Methods

Specialist Mathematics Units 1 & 2: Specialist Mathematics, Units 3 & 4: Specialist Mathematics

Media Unit 1: Media forms, representations and Australian stories , Unit 2: Narrative across media forms , Unit 3: Media narratives and pre-production , Unit 4: Media production and issues in the media

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

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Outdoor & Environmental Studies Unit 3: Relationships with natural environments, Unit 4: The future of human-nature interactions

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?

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Product Design & Technology Unit 1: Sustainability redevelopment of a product, Unit 2: Collaborative design, Unit 3: Applying the product design process, Unit 4: Product development and evaluation

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: Social norms: breaking the code, Unit 3: Culture and ethnicity, Unit 4: Community, social movements and social change

Theatre Studies Unit 1: Pre-modern theatre styles and conventions, Unit 2: Modern theatre styles and conventions, Unit 3: Producing theatre, Unit 4: Presenting an interpretation

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Visual Communication Design Unit 1: Introduction to visual communication design, Unit 2: Applications of visual communication with design fields, Unit 3: Visual communication design practices, Unit 4: Visual communication design, development, evaluation and presentation

About VET VCE VET studies offered

Certificate III in Allied Health Assistance

Certificate II in Animal Care

Certificate II in Applied Fashion Design & Technology

Certificate III in Beauty Services

Certificate II in Dance

Certificate III in Early Childhood Education & Care

Certificate III in Events

Certificate II in Hospitality

Certificate III in Information Technology

Certificate III in Laboratory Skills

Certificate III in Music Industry

Certificate III in Sport & Recreation

Certificate III in Tourism

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Outdoor & Environmental Studies

This course is only available to Year 11 students in 2024. The cost for enrolment will be made available in late 2023.

Practical Component

This subject will involve practical activities from a combination of the following: camping, hiking, rock-climbing and abseiling, Zoo tour, surfing and a coastal cruise.

Unit 3: Relationships with natural environments

The focus of this unit is the ecological, historical, and social contexts of relationships between humans and outdoor environments in Australia. Case studies of a range of impacts on outdoor environments are examined in the context of the changing nature of human relationships with outdoor environments in Australia. Students consider a number of factors that influence relationships with outdoor environments. Students will also examine the dynamic nature of relationships between humans and the environment.

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

explain and evaluate how relationships with Australian outdoor environments have changed over time, with reference to specific outdoor experiences.
analyse and evaluate the factors influencing societal relationships with outdoor environments since 1990, with reference to specific outdoor experiences.

Unit 4: The future of human-nature interactions

In this unit students explore the sustainable use and management of outdoor environments. Students will examine the contemporary state of environments in Australia, consider the importance of healthy outdoor environments, and examine the issues relating to the capacity of outdoor environments to support the future needs of the Australian population. Students will investigate current acts and conventions as well as management strategies for achieving and maintaining healthy and sustainable environments in contemporary Australian society. Through these practical experiences students are able to make comparisons between and to reflect upon outdoor environments, as well as to develop and apply theoretical knowledge about outdoor environments.

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

evaluate the contemporary state of Australian outdoor environments and analyse the importance of healthy outdoor environments and sustainability for individuals and society, with reference to specific outdoor experiences
analyse conflicts over the use of outdoor environments, and evaluate practices and strategies for sustaining outdoor environments, with reference to specific outdoor experiences.