{"id":288,"date":"2022-10-05T05:01:28","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T05:01:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=288"},"modified":"2022-11-08T12:41:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T02:11:41","slug":"year-11-legal-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=288","title":{"rendered":"Year 11 &#8211; Legal Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Length:<\/strong> Single Semester or Full Year (10 or 20 credits)<br><strong>Contact:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=500\">HASS<a href=\"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=500\"> Leader<\/a><\/a><br><br><strong>Recommended Background<br><\/strong><br>Successful completion of Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences and\/or English.<br><br><strong>Course Description<\/strong><br><br>Students will learn about the operation of Australia&#8217;s legal system including the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Sources of Law<\/li><li>Lawmaking<\/li><li>Government Structure and Operation<\/li><li>How the law is relevant to young people<\/li><li>Justice and Society<\/li><li>Separation of Powers<\/li><li>Rights and Responsibilities.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><br>By the end of each semester students will have learned about how Australia&#8217;s legal system is continually improving to better society and achieve cohesion. Students will engage in group discussion \/ tasks, formative \/ summative tests, case analysis, and trending topics \/ cases in the media.<br><br><strong>Assessment<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Two Source Analysis Tasks<\/li><li>One Group Presentation<\/li><li>One Independent Investigation.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Leads To<br><\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=413\">Stage 2 Legal Studies<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Length: Single Semester or Full Year (10 or 20 credits)Contact:\u00a0HASS Leader Recommended BackgroundSuccessful completion of Year 10 Humanities and Social Sciences and\/or English. Course Description Students will learn about the operation of Australia&#8217;s legal system including the following: Sources of Law Lawmaking Government Structure and Operation How the law is relevant to young people Justice [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":224,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-288","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=288"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":928,"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/288\/revisions\/928"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}