Length: Single Semester (Semester 1 or Semester 2)
Contact: HASS Leader

Course Description 

Recommended Background 
Successful completion of Year 8 HASS; students must also be willing to engage with their local communities in a real-world manner 

Course Description 
This course is designed for students who wish to extend their skills in the Humanities, and apply their learning to real-world problems.  

As part of this course, students will have the opportunity to investigate a social, geopolitical or legal issue or problem affecting their community; they will develop an understanding of the history of the problem/issue, engage with their local community to collect data, understand different perspectives, and develop a proposal that can be presented to an appropriate audience. Students will also examine the problem from a global context, to develop their perspective-taking and understand how it occurs in other countries. 

The assessment for this course will include: 

• Final proposal for the social, geopolitical and/or legal problem 
• Comparing social, geopolitical and problems across global contexts 
• Understanding different points of view (perspective-taking and empathy) 
• Preparing and undertaking a research methodology (e.g. field research, discussion groups) 

Leads To:
Year 10 History
Year 10 History Elective
Stage 1 Society and Culture
Stage 1 Legal Studies
State 1 Modern History