Overview
Course description
Course structure and requirements
Ancient History or Modern History Year 11 is a prerequisite for entry into History Extension.
Ancient History or Modern History Year 12 is a co-requisite for History Extension.
Course number:
- History Extension (Year 12, 1 unit): TBA
Prerequisites:
- Ancient History or Modern History (Year 11, 2 units): TBA
Co-requisites:
- Ancient History or Modern History (Year 12, 2 units): TBA
Exclusions:
- Ancient History Life Skills (Year 11, 2 units): TBA
- Ancient History Life Skills (Year 12, 2 units): TBA
- Modern History Life Skills (Year 11, 2 units): TBA
- Modern History Life Skills (Year 12, 2 units): TBA
- Human Society and its Environment Life Skills (Year 11, 2 units): TBA*
- Human Society and its Environment Life Skills (Year 12, 2 units): TBA*
* Where Ancient or Modern History is undertaken within the course.
Year 12 course structure and requirements
| Year 12 focus areas | Indicative hours |
|---|---|
Constructing history
| 40 (minimum) |
| History project | 20 (maximum) |
Constructing history – Key questions
Four key questions provide a framework for investigating the construction of history. Students engage with a range of relevant sources to investigate the following key questions:
- What is history?
- Who are the producers of history in different eras?
- How has history been constructed, recorded and presented in different eras?
- Why have approaches to history changed in different eras?
The historiographical skills are to be integrated with the key questions.
Constructing history – Case studies
The case study allows for the examination of historiography in a specific historical context. Students explore ONE case study with reference to the producers of history, and their perspectives and approaches, which have led to change in the THREE areas of historiographical interpretation. Students apply their understanding of the following questions to the selected case study:
- Who are the producers of history in different eras?
- How has history been constructed, recorded and presented in different eras?
- Why have approaches to history changed in different eras?
The historiographical skills are to be integrated with the case study.
History project
Students will undertake an individual investigation into an area of historical and/or historiographical interpretation. The historiographical skills are to be integrated with the History project.