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7–10History 7–10 Syllabus

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Implementation from 2027
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Stage 5

Depth study (options)

Students can investigate the following options

Relating to Historical context 4 (core): The making of the modern world (1750–c. 1945)

  • The Industrial Revolution
  • The movement of peoples
  • Imperialism in Asia
  • Key ideas and movements
  • The Holocaust

Relating to Historical context 5 (core): The modern world

  • Rights and freedoms of Australian women
  • Migration experiences
  • Popular culture
  • The environmental movement

Relating to content in either Stage 4 or Stage 5:

  • School-developed topic
Depth study (option) – Key ideas and movements (1750–1918)

Content in Working with historical concepts and skills outlines how historical concepts and skills are to be integrated with all other content in this focus area as part of process of historical inquiry.

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Working with historical concepts and skills

  • Evaluate and use relevant historical concepts of continuity and change, cause and effect, perspectives, significance and contestability

  • Engage in historical inquiry, integrating information from a range of sources as evidence where appropriate

  • Create written texts to analyse historical concepts related to key ideas and movements

Background and origins of key ideas and movements

  • Key ideas and movements in the period, including democracy, capitalism, socialism, egalitarianism, universal suffrage, abolition of slavery and Chartism

  • Events associated with key ideas and movements, such as the Enlightenment, the Industrial Revolution, the American War of Independence, the French Revolution, the American Civil War and the Haitian Revolution

Significant groups, individuals, ideas, beliefs, practices or events in key ideas and movements

  • Reasons for the emergence and development of at least ONE key idea or movement

  • The main features of at least ONE key idea or movement and competing ideas of supporters and opponents

  • The role of an individual or group in the development of at least ONE key idea or movement

Impact and legacies of key ideas and movements

At least ONE of the following impacts and legacies:

  • The impact and legacies of a key idea/movement globally

  • The impact and legacies of a key/movement idea in Australia

  • The impact of a key idea/movement on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples and/or International Indigenous Peoples

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