Citizenship and Legal Studies Life Skills Stage 6 (2010)
About the course
The Citizenship and Legal Studies Life Skills Stage 6 course provides opportunities for students to develop knowledge and understanding of the rights, responsibilities and roles of individuals and groups in society in relation to the law.
Study of the Citizenship and Legal Studies Life Skills Stage 6 course should contribute to students’ appreciation for informed citizenship and their participation in democratic processes.
The structure of the Citizenship and Legal 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 Citizenship and Legal Studies Life Skills course involves:
- knowledge and understanding of
- the rights, responsibilities and roles of individuals and groups in society
- the relationships between laws, justice and society
- democratic processes and governments in Australia
- skills in decision-making processes to facilitate access to and participation in society
- the scope of Australian and international laws and relationships and the implications for citizenship and justice.
Board Developed Course
Course number(s):
- 16689 Citizenship and Legal Studies Life Skills (2 units – Preliminary)
- 16689 Citizenship and Legal 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:
- 11220 Legal Studies (2 units – Preliminary)
- 15220 Legal Studies (2 units – HSC)
- 16699 Human Society and its Environment Life Skills (2 units – Preliminary) (where Citizenship and Legal Studies is undertaken within the course)
- 16699 Human Society and its Environment Life Skills (2 units – HSC) (where Citizenship and Legal Studies is undertaken within the course)
On entering students for the Citizenship and Legal 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 Citizenship and Legal 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:
What are Life Skills courses
All students are entitled to participate in and progress through the curriculum. Life Skills courses provide course options for students with intellectual disability or imputed intellectual disability in Years 11–12 who cannot access related general education courses.
Students with disability can access syllabus outcomes and content in a range of ways, including through a range of adjustments to teaching, learning and assessment activities. Decisions regarding curriculum options should be made in the context of collaborative curriculum planning.
Assessment support and advice
Teaching and learning support
The Life Skills outcomes worksheet can be used to collect information on the outcomes that a student has achieved before recording them in Schools Online.
Citizenship and Legal Studies Life Skills Stage 6 outcomes worksheet (DOCX 16.07KB)
Read more about supporting students with special education needs.