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Geography

Board Developed Course

Course numbers:

  • 440 Geography Elective 200 hours
  • 441 Geography Elective 100 hours
  • 4022 Geography Elective Life Skills 200 hours
  • 4021 Geography Elective Life Skills 100 hours

Exclusions: Students may not access both the Geography Elective Years 7–10 outcomes and content and the Geography Elective Life Skills outcomes and content.

Course description

Geography enables young people to develop an interest in and engagement with the world. Geography Elective provides opportunities to develop a broader understanding of the discipline of Geography, including physical, social, cultural, economic and political influences on people, places and environments, from local to global scales.

The Geography Elective Years 7–10 course includes Life Skills outcomes and content for students with disability.

What students learn

Geography Elective enables students to learn about the geographical processes that form and transform environments and communities. Contemporary geographical issues and events are explored, including the roles and responsibilities of individuals, groups and governments. Through geographical inquiry, students develop knowledge and understanding to become informed, responsible and active citizens.

Students have the opportunity to further their geographical understanding through investigation of the concepts of place, space, environment, interconnection, scale, sustainability and change. They engage with the geographical tools of maps, fieldwork, graphs and statistics, spatial technologies, and visual representations, in order to acquire, process and communicate geographical information.

Course requirements

Students may undertake either 100 or 200 hours of study in Geography Elective in Stage 4 and/or Stage 5. Across a 100-hour course or a 200-hour course students may study only ONE school-developed option.

100-hour course

Students undertaking the 100-hour course are required to complete a minimum of THREE topics.

200-hour course

Students undertaking the 200-hour course are required to complete a minimum of FIVE topics.

Topics

  • Physical Geography
  • Oceanography
  • Primary Production
  • Global Citizenship
  • Australia's Neighbours
  • Political Geography
  • Interactions and Patterns along a Transcontinental Transect
  • School-developed Option

Board Developed Course

Course numbers:

  • 440 Geography Elective 200 hours
  • 441 Geography Elective 100 hours
  • 4022 Geography Elective Life Skills 200 hours
  • 4021 Geography Elective Life Skills 100 hours

Exclusions: Students may not access both the Geography Elective Years 7–10 outcomes and content and the Geography Elective Life Skills outcomes and content.

Course description

Geography enables young people to develop an interest in and engagement with the world. Geography Elective provides opportunities to develop a broader understanding of the discipline of Geography, including physical, social, cultural, economic and political influences on people, places and environments, from local to global scales.

The Geography Elective Years 7–10 course includes Life Skills outcomes and content for students with disability.

What students learn

Geography Elective enables students to learn about the geographical processes that form and transform environments and communities. Contemporary geographical issues and events are explored, including the roles and responsibilities of individuals, groups and governments. Through geographical inquiry, students develop knowledge and understanding to become informed, responsible and active citizens.

Students have the opportunity to further their geographical understanding through investigation of the concepts of place, space, environment, interconnection, scale, sustainability and change. They engage with the geographical tools of maps, fieldwork, graphs and statistics, spatial technologies, and visual representations, in order to acquire, process and communicate geographical information.

Course requirements

Students may undertake either 100 or 200 hours of study in Geography Elective in Stage 4 and/or Stage 5. Across a 100-hour course or a 200-hour course students may study only ONE school-developed option.

100-hour course

Students undertaking the 100-hour course are required to complete a minimum of THREE topics.

200-hour course

Students undertaking the 200-hour course are required to complete a minimum of FIVE topics.

Topics

  • Physical Geography
  • Oceanography
  • Primary Production
  • Global Citizenship
  • Australia's Neighbours
  • Political Geography
  • Interactions and Patterns along a Transcontinental Transect
  • School-developed Option

Preliminary course

The Preliminary course is broadly focused, while the HSC course provides for deeper and more complex investigations.

Preliminary course learning opportunities focus on:

  • Earth’s natural systems

  • People, patterns and processes

  • Human–environment interactions

  • Geographical Investigation

HSC course

HSC course learning opportunities focus on:

  • Global sustainability

  • Rural and urban places

  • Ecosystems and global biodiversity.