Social Sciences

Business Studies

Business Studies follows the Young Enterprise scheme, while intertwining NZQA assessments into an exciting mixture of practical and academic challenges. The year is broken into four main challenges including validating your product, pitching to a panel of judges, marketing/selling your product and concluding with an annual report. The majority of the course work is completed as a group (unless you are a sole trader), while some small components of assessment tasks are completed independently. 

Commerce

This course combines all major commerce disciplines—Economics, Marketing, Business Studies and Accounting. In the first half of the year, the curriculum emphasises Economics; the second half shifts focus to Business Studies, Marketing, and Accounting. A range of practice tasks enable students to develop their learning across in class tests, ongoing assignments and group challenges such as market day. These skills also pave the way for further pathways and set students up well for pursuing a career in Commerce.

Economics

Learners are increasingly involved in the Economic world about them whether as consumers or participants in the labour force. Studying Economics in senior school has both a micro economic focus, where they will study the dynamics of the market, or macro-economics where the involvement of a domestic economy in a global setting is the focus. The courses available are a blend of internal and external tasks and students will gather a wide range of skills that are transferrable across other subjects leading to pathways of study beyond St Hilda’s. 

Geography

Geography is about understanding how the world works - its people, systems, challenges and risks. Geography, throughout the years, allows learners to gain an increasing level of independence through field trips, research and investigations in to Geographic issues. Geography also provides students with an excellent mix of theory and skills based content.

History

History allows learners to understand our past, which in turn allows people to understand our present.  To know how and why our world is the way it is today, we have to look to history for answers. Studying History also involves using analytical, evaluative and research skills

Media Studies

Media Studies seeks to develop an informed and critical understanding of the ways in which the media influence social, political and economic areas of life, as well as the way they shape our perceptions, attitudes, desires and behaviour.