Politics, Power and Promises

This 9/10 elective offers you the chance to explore some of the world's most powerful people and what can happen when relationships between countries break down. Students will learn about different leadership styles, and why some are better suited to being a world leader than others.

Students will evaluate the significant events, developments and ideas that shaped the modern world, and will analyse short- and long-term causes and intended and unintended consequences of significant events, individuals, ideas and developments and their relationships to continuity and change.

Areas will include some of the pivotal political movements in Australia and throughout the world (such as Indigenous land rights and Apartheid in South Africa) and some of the more recent conflicts in world history (Vietnam War, War in Afghanistan - 9/11, and Rwanda) and their effects on global and Australian society and policies.

Students will also examine the role of Human Rights law, such as the origins and significance of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, including Australia’s involvement in the development of the declaration, along with organisations, such as UN and NATO, that try to create peace in the world post-1945 and their influences on Australia after 1945.