Year 10 Course Handbook - Diamond Valley College

Humanities: The Individual & Society-HUISThis multi-discipline Humanities course is designed to involvestudents in the exploration and examination of issues importantto human societies. It provides a means by which students canset their direct experience of the world around them withinlocal, national and global contexts.The aim of this subject is to enable students to develop: an understanding of the ways in which legal, economic,social and historical factors have interacted to shape theworld we live in today an awareness of issues which affect the nature andquality of human life in contemporary society and thepast enquiry skills and ability to analyse information critically and form reasonedjudgements based on evidenceThis subject provides students an excellent introduction to VCE Humanities andCommerce subjects.Topics taught in this unit include: Co-operation and Conflict; an introduction to teenage legal issues, rights andresponsibilities Resources and Consumerism; an exploration of business ideas and everydayfinancial practices Equality and Inequality; an investigation of global issues including thedistribution of wealth and population Time, continuity and change; a research unit based on an historical eventClass Work A folio ofexercises Analyticalexercises Researchassignment Document study ClasspresentationContact Teacher-Geoff Portbury2012 Diamond Valley College Year 10 Course Handbook 21