Aboriginal Studies Life Skills Stage 6 (2010)

The Aboriginal Studies Life Skills Stage 6 course provides opportunities for students to learn about the historical and contemporary experiences and cultures of Aboriginal Peoples in Australia and the world.

Study of the Aboriginal Studies Life Skills Stage 6 course should contribute to students’ understanding of intercultural experiences, social justice and empathy with Aboriginal Peoples’ experiences and views.

The structure of the Aboriginal Studies Life Skills course allows teachers to provide a broad and balanced program that reflects the needs of individual students within the context of the collaborative curriculum planning process. Students may study selected outcomes and content within the course.

Study of the Aboriginal Studies Life Skills course involves:

• knowledge and understanding of:
  • social justice and human rights issues and how they impact on Aboriginal Peoples
  • the diversity of contemporary Aboriginal cultural, political, social and economic life
  • the impact of government policies, legislation and legal decisions on Aboriginal Peoples
• skills to investigate issues, as well as gather and communicate information from a variety of perspectives
• informed and responsible values and attitudes about social justice, intercultural understandings and empathy.

Board Developed Course

Course number(s):

• 16687 Aboriginal Studies Life Skills (2 units – Preliminary)
• 16687 Aboriginal Studies Life Skills (2 units – HSC)

Prerequisites: A student studying any Stage 6 Life Skills course will usually have completed one or more courses based on Life Skills outcomes and content in Years 7–10, except under special circumstances.

Corequisites: Nil

Eligibility: Life Skills Eligibility

Study via self-tuition:   No

Exclusions:

• 11000 Aboriginal Studies (2 units – Preliminary)
• 15000 Aboriginal Studies (2 units – HSC)
• 16699 Human Society and its Environment Life Skills (2 units – Preliminary) (where Aboriginal Studies is undertaken within the course)
• 16699 Human Society and its Environment Life Skills (2 units – HSC) (where Aboriginal Studies is undertaken within the course)

On entering students for the Aboriginal Studies Life Skills Stage 6 course, the principal is certifying that the student is eligible and the decision is the result of the collaborative curriculum planning process.

Students are expected to address or achieve one or more of the Aboriginal Studies Life Skills Stage 6 outcomes. They need not address or complete all of the content to demonstrate achievement of an outcome.

The knowledge and skills developed in this course can be applied across a range of career pathways.

Industries related to this course include, but are not limited to, the following outlined on the Your Career website:

• Health Care and Social Assistance
• Public Administration and Safety.