Society and Culture

Sydney Distance Education High School HSC Course Overview

This course develops an understanding of cultural continuity and change within a selected country. Students study the role of belief systems in their personal lives and in relationship to societies, cultures and environments through time. The nature of equality and difference in societies and cultures are focused on.

Core Study: Personal Interest Project – online links and activities

•  Requirements and Methodologies

•  Personal Interest Project Proposal

Core Study: Social and Cultural Continuity and Change – online links and activities

•  Assessment Task 1: Application of Methodologies

•  Theoretical Framework

•  Vietnam – Major Focus Study

•  Vietnam – Beliefs, Values and Lifestyles

Depth Study: Equality and Difference – online links and activities

•  Nature of Equality and Difference

•  Personal Interest Project Update

•  Assessment Task 2: Continuity and Change

•  Equality and Difference in Australia

•  Macro World Issues

•  Vietnamese in Australia or Aboriginal Study

•  Personal Interest Project Draft 1

Depth Study: Belief Systems – online links and activities

•  Buddhism

•  Assessment Task 3: Depth Studies

•  Personal Interest Project Draft 2

•  Buddhism

•  Assessment Task 4: Trial HSC Examination

•  Personal Interest Project to Board of Studies