TCE Geography Level 3

TCE Geography Level 3

🎓Course TypePre-tertiary
TASC CodeGGY315120
TCE Points15
⏱Hours150
✔️StandardReading and Writing (Literacy)
📚PrerequisitesNA

📎Desirable prior 

experiences

Humanities courses require no previous content knowledge or prior subject experience. 
📝Assessment

Internal - ongoing against criteria 

External - 3 hour exam

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 PlacesChallenges faced in a megacity in a developing country
Unit 2: Human Impact on Land Cover ChangeAnthropogenic climate change.
Unit 3: GlobalisationInternational 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.Â