{"id":415,"date":"2022-10-07T09:52:49","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T23:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=415"},"modified":"2025-08-14T11:24:49","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T01:54:49","slug":"year-12-modern-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=415","title":{"rendered":"Year 12 &#8211; Modern History"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Length:<\/strong>&nbsp;Full Year (20 SACE credits)<br><strong>Contact:<\/strong>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/?page_id=500\">HASS&nbsp;Leader<\/a><br><br><strong>Recommended Background<br><\/strong>Grade C or higher in ANY stage 1 HASS class or General English or English Literary Studies.<br><br><strong>Course Description<\/strong><br>Students study 2 topics over 4 assignments.<br><strong>Topic 1: The Changing World Order (1945-present)<br>Topic 2: Nation Study<\/strong> (in 2025 the topic was China but could be any one of Russia, Germany or the United States.)<br><strong>Topic 3: Independent Choice<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>A 2025 Stage 2 Student reflection<\/strong><br><em>I want to be a lawyer. I put Modern History as a reserve to still develop HASS skills such as critical thinking and have really enjoyed it. It sounded a bit dry but once I was in the class, learning about China and the Cold War was actually really interesting and the Independent essay was also interesting as I got to learn about an era in History that I wanted to.<\/em><br><br><strong>Assessment<br><\/strong>Students\u2019 performance will be determined according to the subject\u2019s Performance Standards, as outlined by the SACE Board. Grades A+ to E- will be used for reporting purposes.<br><br><strong>School-based Assessment:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Folio (50%): Four historical-skills tasks. 2 for Topic 1 and 2 for Topic 2.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Inquiry (20%): An historical study into an aspect of the world since c1750. Students will choose what topic they wish to investigate.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>External Assessment:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Examination (30%). A combination of a source analysis and an essay response.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Length:&nbsp;Full Year (20 SACE credits)Contact:&nbsp;HASS&nbsp;Leader Recommended BackgroundGrade C or higher in ANY stage 1 HASS class or General English or English Literary Studies. Course DescriptionStudents study 2 topics over 4 assignments.Topic 1: The Changing World Order (1945-present)Topic 2: Nation Study (in 2025 the topic was China but could be any one of Russia, Germany or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":338,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-415","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/415","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=415"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/415\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1471,"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/415\/revisions\/1471"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curric.theheights.sa.edu.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}