{"id":290,"date":"2022-10-05T05:08:53","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T05:08:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=290"},"modified":"2023-08-22T10:15:28","modified_gmt":"2023-08-22T00:45:28","slug":"year-11-society-and-culture","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=290","title":{"rendered":"Year 11 &#8211; Society and Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Length<\/strong>: Single Semester<br><strong>Contact:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=500\">HASS<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=500\"> Leader<\/a><br><br><strong>Recommended Background<\/strong><br><br>Advantage: Grade C or higher in History and \/or English.<br><br><strong>Course Description<\/strong><br><br>Society and Culture aims to develop students&#8217; understanding of how contemporary societies and culture &#8211; Australia and globally &#8211; operate and change. Students will develop their skills in debate, analysis, empathy and perspective taking, and understanding the connections between different groups of people. A key focus will be on strategies to achieve positive social change in our world.<br><br>The topics discussed and investigated will involve power, conflict, race, gender, religion, politics, class, human rights, arts and recreation from a cultural perspective.<br><br>Topics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Popular Youth Culture<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Global Conflicts<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Rights of Marginalized Australians<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Individual Investigation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Assessment<\/strong><br><br>There will be individual and group assessment tasks including researching, written work, oral presentations, PowerPoint presentations etc.<br><br><strong>Note:<\/strong> Students need to have a sound standard of literacy, analysis and interpretation skills. There is a great deal of reading, comprehension and debate in this course.<br><br><strong>Leads To<\/strong><br><br><a href=\"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=418\">Stage 2 Society and Culture<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Length: Single SemesterContact:\u00a0HASS Leader Recommended Background Advantage: Grade C or higher in History and \/or English. Course Description Society and Culture aims to develop students&#8217; understanding of how contemporary societies and culture &#8211; Australia and globally &#8211; operate and change. Students will develop their skills in debate, analysis, empathy and perspective taking, and understanding the [&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-290","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290","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=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1271,"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/290\/revisions\/1271"}],"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=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}