Overview
Course description
Course structure and requirements
Course numbers:
- English Studies (Year 11, 2 units): TBA
- English Studies (Year 12, 2 units): TBA
Optional examination:
English Studies students who intend to undertake the optional HSC examination must also be enrolled in:
- English Studies (Year 12, 2 units): TBA
Exclusions:
- English Advanced (Year 11, 2 units): TBA
- English Advanced (Year 12, 2 units): TBA
- English EAL/D (Year 11, 2 units): TBA
- English EAL/D (Year 12, 2 units): TBA
- English Extension (Year 11, 1 unit): TBA
- English Extension 1 (Year 12, 1 unit): TBA
- English Extension 2 (Year 12, 1 unit): TBA
- English Standard (Year 11, 2 units): TBA
- English Standard (Year 12, 2 units): TBA
- English Life Skills (Year 11, 2 units): TBA
- English Life Skills (Year 12, 2 units): TBA
Year 11 course structure and requirements
| Year 11 course (120 hours) | Indicative hours |
|---|---|
| Reading to write: Transition to English Studies | 30–40 hours |
| An additional 2–3 elective focus areas | 20–40 hours each |
For the English Studies Year 11 course, students are required to:
- complete 120 indicative hours
- complete Reading to write: Transition to English Studies as the first unit of work
- complete an additional 2–3 elective focus areas.
Text requirements
There are no prescribed texts for Year 11.
Students are required to study ONE substantial multimodal text, which could be film or media.
Students are required to study ONE substantial print text, which could be prose fiction, nonfiction, poetry or drama.
Across Stage 6, the selection of texts must give students experience of:
- texts that are widely regarded as quality literature
- a range of Australian texts
- a range of texts authored by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples
- a range of types of texts, which could include prose fiction, drama, poetry, nonfiction, film, media and digital texts
- texts with a wide range of cultural, social and gender perspectives, and popular and youth cultures
- integrated modes of reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing and representing, where appropriate.
Year 12 course structure and requirements
| Year 12 course (120 hours) | Indicative hours |
|---|---|
| Narrative and human experience | 35 hours |
Writing for purpose (OPTIONAL: This focus area may be studied concurrently with Narrative and human experiences and the electives) | 35 hours |
| 2 elective focus areas | 50 hours |
For the English Studies Year 12 course, students are required to:
- complete the Year 11 course as a prerequisite
- complete 120 indicative hours
- complete Narrative and human experiences, Writing for purpose and an additional 2 elective focus areas
Text requirements
Students are required to study a wide range of texts, with ONE substantial text drawn from each of the following categories:
- print text, which could be prose fiction, nonfiction, poetry or drama
- multimodal text, which could be film or media.
For Narrative and human experience, students are required to study:
- ONE text from the prescribed text list.
For Writing for purpose, students are required to study:
- At least FOUR short texts from the prescribed text list
Across Stage 6, the selection of texts must give students experience of:
- texts that are widely regarded as quality literature
- a range of Australian texts
- a range of texts authored by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples
- a range of types of texts, which could include prose fiction, drama, poetry, nonfiction, film, media and digital texts
- texts with a wide range of cultural, social and gender perspectives, and popular and youth cultures
- integrated modes of reading, writing, listening, speaking, viewing and representing, where appropriate.
The HSC English prescriptions 2027–2028 provides essential information for HSC study for all English 11–12 courses.
Texts authored by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples
Across Stage 6, the study of a range of texts authored by Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Peoples should consider:
- the artistic and Cultural value of these texts, including ideas, arguments and representations of identity, histories and Cultures
- how Country/Place, Community and lived experiences shape the perspectives of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Storytellers and audiences
- ethical responsibilities surrounding Indigenous Cultural and Intellectual Property (ICIP) in the production of texts
- how Storytelling, Aboriginal Languages and Aboriginal English are expressions of Culture, identity and Customary practices
- how the modes of these texts may recognise and contribute to Cultural conventions or practices of oral Storytelling
- how Cultural symbolism, imagery, allusion and irony are used to shape meaning
- how personal values and perspectives are broadened and reconsidered through engagement with these texts
- texts that originate from a range of diverse Communities.