The Year 11 course is designed to provide students with opportunities to investigate individuals, groups, events, institutions, societies and ideas in a range of historical contexts, as a background for their more specialised HSC studies. The HSC course is designed for students to investigate national and international forces of change and continuity in the 20th and 21st century.  

In Year 11, students will investigate the following units. 

The Nature of Modern History: 

• Shaping the Modern World – WW1 in Europe 

• Investigating Historic Sites and Sources – such as the nature of trench warfare in WW1, archaeology of Fromelles. 

• Case Studies – including The Jewish Holocaust, Modern Slavery 1650 to 21st Century. 

• Historical Investigation where each student is immersed in the world of the historian and gets to research and write a history of a chosen topic and present their findings to an audience. 

In Year 12 (HSC), students will investigate the following units. 

• CORE STUDY: Power and Authority in The Modern World (1919-1946) with emphasis on Nazi Germany 

• National Studies - either Iran (1945-1989) or Russia and the Soviet Union (1917-1941) 

• Peace and Conflict – The Cold War (1945-1991) 

• Change in the Modern World - Civil Rights in the USA (1945-1968) 

• Evidence collection and evaluation

• Critical thinking and communication

• Advanced written communication

• Data analysis

• Interpersonal interaction/co-operation and debate

• Deductive and inductive reasoning

• Differentiated empathy.

An A4 exercise book for each topic or a BYOD device  

• Architect

• Legal professions

• Marketing

• Interior design

• Teacher

• Diplomat

• Human resource management

• Archaeologist

• Museum curator

• Travel consultant

• Archivist

• Gamer-software designer

• Photography

• Editor

• Writer (novelist, playwright, etc.)

• Journalist

• Philologist

• Set design

• Production  

As they become available:

• Museum exhibitions

• The B.I.G. Overseas Study Tour

• HSC study days – generally held at a University of Sydney campus 

• Nil, unless you don’t return your pack of Year 12 HSC textbooks, which you will then be invoiced for at the retail price.