Students will explore four areas: Geography, History, Business & Economics, and Civics & Citizenship.
Students will be able to develop important skills such as mapping, data analysis, and graphing. Students will undertake learning through case studies, to develop their understanding of water in the world, liveability, and business & economics.
Students will discover the fascinating world of Ancient China and Ancient Rome. Students will also discover the history of Ancient Australia, with students learning the importance of deep time history, respectfully preserving Indigenous artefacts, and the Indigenous history of Melbourne and the local area.
Welcome to Pre-VCE LAB, where you’ll be equipped with the knowledge to help you own your own business, or become a lawyer or an accountant. Regardless of what career you find yourself in, an understanding of the legal, financial and economic influences on our day to day decisions is a key life skill. This student-led subject is for those who want to learn essential business and legal skills that you can take to the bank, and understand how to best manage both the risks and rewards of running a business. This is an intense look into the relevant VCE subjects, with the focus on students developing their problem-solving skills, study habits and tier 2 & 3 vocabulary.
In Accounting students will be required to interpret, classify, record and explain business transactions, including preparing reports such as Balance Sheets, Income Statements and more!
In Legal students will dive into the world of contract law, looking at many different cases and the impact they’ve had on our law to this day. Students will be exposed to a range of legal terminology, and learn how to embed this knowledge into their written responses for future clients, when analysing the validity of contracts.
To tie up the subject, students will gain an introduction to Business Management. Students will look into a case study of successful Australian businesses that were forced to change - they will learn about stakeholder management, the different legal structures available when setting up a business, and the different business environments that influence a business to change.
The course will prepare students for the basic skills and knowledge required for VCE Legal Studies, VCE Accounting and VCE Business Management.
In Colonisation and Conflict, students explore the causes and consequences of a selection of key global empires around the world. Students examine events such as the transatlantic slave trade, British rule in the Americas and India and the colonisation of Africa. A knowledge of this period of history helps students to better understand the causes of some of the major events of the 20th Century.
Following on from the understanding of colonisation, students analyse how colonisation laid the foundations for the outbreak of World War One. Students then explore the key events and effects of World War One, examining how World War One is considered a 'global' war.
Finally, students examine the political situation in Japan immediately following World War One. Students explore the expansion of the Japanese Empire in the following years, including the invasion of Manchuria and the Second Sino-Japanese War, and evaluate the response of the League of Nations, as well as individual states, to these conflicts.
The skills in this course apply to a broad range of pathways, and students will be directly prepared for VCE History and VCE Politics.
In Going Global, students have the opportunity to explore significant global challenges that are facing the global community. Students analyse the causes and consequences of climate change, while also evaluating the effectiveness of the responses to climate change by key global actors, such as the United Nations, states such as the USA, China and Australia and non-governmental actors such as Greenpeace.
In this course, students also have the opportunity to examine the concept of human rights and how human rights are not necessarily applied universally, as students discuss how there can be challenges to the concept of human rights based on cultural, economic and political factors.
Students also have the opportunity to independently study another global challenge such as people movement or poverty alleviation.
The skills in this course apply to a broad range of pathways, and students will be directly prepared for VCE Politics.
Guilty or Not Guilty looks specifically at the area of criminal law, including murder and manslaughter. Students explore how the justice system works and what goes wrong when the law doesn’t protect citizens.
To complement their studies, students also focus on a number of areas pertaining to the Australian and International Legal Systems. Students are informed of the operations of these legal systems and are able to evaluate their effectiveness and their rights in dealing with the law. Students work collaboratively to examine the court system and constitutional rights, as well as undertake a variety of other assessment tasks including research assignments, oral presentations and tests.
The skills in this course apply to a broad range of pathways, and students will be directly prepared for PRE VCE Legal, Accounting and Business (LAB) and VCE Legal Studies.
In Money & Society, students will learn about the world around them in relation to money, economics and business.
Students will develop valuable skills and improve their knowledge in a whole range of societal matters to understand money and society. Money helps you live your life. Finance helps you be smart with money. Students will explore real world matters such as the legal and ethical rights and responsibilities of Australian consumers and businesses and how to deal with financial scams.
Economics is about: making choices because there isn’t enough of everything for everyone. Students will explore the basic economic problem of scarcity, economic decision-making based on costs and benefits, incentives and opportunity cost. Students will also look at the changing patterns of Australia’s international trade and benefits of globalisation.
Businesses help people live, work, and enjoy life. Business , create jobs, and bring new ideas to the world. Students will explore entrepreneurship, the different ways Australians can derive an income.
The skills in this course apply to a broad range of pathways, and students will be directly prepared for PRE VCE Legal, Accounting and Business (LAB) and also VCE Accounting and VCE Business Management.
Please note that this subject replaces Shark Tank and Who Wants to be a Millionaire. You cannot take this subject if you have previously completed one of these electives.
Why are we here? Is there more than one reality? Can we trust our senses? What does it mean to live a good life? How do we know anything? Are we the same person as we were last year, last week, last night?
Philosophy uses reason and logic to think through these big questions. Stimulated by what famous philosophers have said, students will create presentations, exhibit philosophical debates and write philosophical essays.
Unlike formal debating, philosophical argument aims at arriving at uncovering truth rather than ‘winning’. Thus, philosophy classes involve building important listening and social skills.
The skills in this course apply to a broad range of pathways, and students will be directly prepared for VCE Philosophy, VCE English and VCE English Literature.
This subject is available as a repeated elective.
In Power to the People, students have the opportunity to explore significant 'people powered' political movements in the modern world. Students investigate the history of the civil rights movement in the USA, building up to an understanding of the Black Lives Matter movement that spread across the globe.
Students then explore the Indigenous civil rights movement in Australia, charting the key struggles and achievements of the movement and how this has led to the Indigenous Voice to Parliament Referendum.
Finally, students also study the Feminism movement and the explore the different waves of Feminism, culminating in an exploration and analysis of the #metoo movement.
Finally, The skills in this course apply to a broad range of pathways, and students will be directly prepared for VCE History and VCE Politics.
In Revolutions, Rockets and Reds, students have the opportunity to explore one of the most significant events of the 20th Century, the Russian Revolution. Students analyse the causes, key events and political ideology that shaped the revolution and modern Russia.
Students study how Russia moved from the rule of the Tsars to the communist rule of the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin. Students then learn about the features of the Cold War in the 20th Century between the USA and the Soviet Union, analysing key events such as the division of Germany, the creation and fall of the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, and the Space Race. Finally, students then explore the Chinese Revolution in 1949, and analyse how this has shaped and influenced modern China under the Chinese Communist Party.
The skills in this course apply to a broad range of pathways, and students will be directly prepared for VCE History and VCE Politics.