senior school handbook 2008 - Mount Eliza Secondary College

Music
Performance
This study develops intellectual,
aesthetic and cultural understanding
of the value and importance of music in solo and
group settings. As soloists and members of groups,
students develop skills in preparing programs of
music works, and apply musicianship as they create
music and interpret and analyse solo and ensemble
works in a range of styles.
Structure
The study is made up as follows:
Unit 1
This unit focuses on achieving accuracy and flexibility
in music performance. Students will present a
solo and a group performance, devise technical work
to increase their proficiency and either improvise or
perform previously unseen music. Melodies,
rhythms, chords and intervals will be notated.
Unit 2
This unit further develops skills in solo and group
contexts. It focuses on analysis of music and extends
students’ ability to recognize chords, scales and
intervals and notate music as it is played.
Units 3 and 4 Solo Performance
The focus of these units is on the preparation and
presentation of performances in solo and ensemble
contexts, demonstrating through performance an
understanding of interpretation and authenticity.
Entry
There are no prerequisites for entry to Units 1, 2 and
3. However, to undertake Units 3 and 4 Solo Performance
students should have about three years
experience prior to Year 11 on a musical instrument
or voice. Students must undertake Unit 3 prior to
undertaking Unit 4.
Outdoor
and
Environmental
Studies
This study explores of the relationships humans
have with the outdoor environment, which includes
natural environments subject to both minimal and
extensive human intervention. Outdoor recreation
activities are undertaken to create learning experiences
which enable students to understand how human-nature
relationships have been constructed.
Structure
The study is made up of four units.
Unit 1
This unit focuses on human relationships with the
natural environment, different understandings of
nature and different types of outdoor environments.
It also develops an understanding of nature through
practical experiences and investigation of particular
outdoor environments.
Unit 2
This unit focuses on the impact of human interaction
on nature and nature’s impact on humans. Outdoor
recreation provides the major focus for studying
this impact, as well as the ecological, social and
economic implications of human impact on the environment.
Technology and minimizing human impacts
on nature are also studied.
Units 3 and 4
In these units concepts related to the ecological,
historical and social contexts of the relationships
between Australians and the outdoor environment
are investigated. Strategies for use now and in the
future and the competing interests of various groups
are studied. Students experience outdoor environments
as a basis for their comparisons.
Entry
There are no prerequisites for entry to Units 1, 2 and
3. Students must undertake Unit 3 prior to undertaking
Unit 4.
Cost:
Outdoor & Environmental Studies 1,2,3 & 4 : A
condition of acceptance into this course is payment
of a materials charge of Units 1 & 2: $450 & Units 3
& 4: $655 due by Course Confirmation Day. Enrolment
in this subject is not confirmed unless payment
is received by this date. A receipt will need to
be produced at the time of course confirmation
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