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During the two-year course, you will investigate how a range of texts that connect clearly to a variety of global issues. You will then explore the ways in which these issues are presented through how authors and texts represent, reflect and/or explore them through their choice of literary form, structure, language use and literary devices. Understanding global issues is key to performing well on the Individal Oral which takes place at the end of Year 12.
Properties of a global issue
Properties of a global issue
A global issue incorporates the following three properties:
1) It has significance on a wide or large scale
2) It is transnational
3) Its impact is felt in everyday, local contexts
During your Year 12 course of study, you will complete 2 "Global Issues Presentations". These goal of these presentations is to help prepare you for the formal Individual Oral. We will approach these presentations by scaffolding your skills and understanding and structuring your preparation process as closely as possible to how you will prepare for your IO.
Global Issues Presentations
Global Issues Presentations
Though a global issue has significance on a wide or large scale, it must not be formulated in terms that are too broad. The following five fields of inquiry are good starting points to determine a global issue but they are not global issues in themselves, and will not be suitable for exploration of two texts unless they are defined in a more specific way.
Culture, identity, and community
Students might focus on the way in which texts explore aspects of family, class, race, ethnicity, nationality, religion, gender and sexuality, and the way these impact on individuals and societies. They might also focus on issues concerning migration, colonialism, and nationalism.
Politics, power, and justice
Students might focus on the ways in which texts explore aspects of rights and responsibilities, the workings and structures of governments and institutions. They might also investigate hierarchies of power, the distribution of wealth and resources, the limits of justice and the law, equality and inequality, human rights, and peace and conflict.
Science, technology, and the natural world
Students might focus on the ways in which texts explore the relationship between humans and the environment and the implications of technology and media for society. They might also consider the idea of scientific development and progress.
Beliefs, values, and education
Students might focus on the way in which texts explore the beliefs and values nurtured in particular societies and the ways they shape individuals, communities, and educational systems. They might also explore the tensions that arise when there are conflicts of beliefs and values, and ethics.
Art, creativity, and the imagination
Students might focus on the ways in which texts explore aspects of aesthetic inspiration, creation, craft, and beauty. They might also focus on the shaping and challenging of perceptions through art, and the function, value, and effects of art in society.
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals can also provide a good starting point from which to narrow down potential global issues.
Information from our camps week session on GI presentations
Information from our camps week session on GI presentations
Sample presentations (visual and textual)
Semester 2 Global Issues Presentations
Semester 2 Global Issues Presentations
Useful documents for Semester 2 GI presentations
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