Modern History Life Skills Stage 6 Syllabus (2017)
New syllabus implemented from 2027
The new Modern History Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus (2024) is to be implemented from 2027.
2025 and 2026
- Plan and prepare to teach Modern History Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus (2024)
2027, Term 1
- Start teaching Modern History Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus (2024) for Year 11
- Continue to teach the Modern History Life Skills Stage 6 Syllabus (2017) for Year 12
2027, Term 4
- Start teaching Modern History Life Skills 11–12 Syllabus (2024) for Year 12
Detailed implementation information, including key features and resources, is available on the Human Society and Its Environment syllabus development page.
About the course
- explore key events, developments, movements, individuals and groups of the recent past to develop an understanding of how these have affected our world
- participate in historical investigations to develop their knowledge, understanding and skills of historical inquiry.
The Modern History Life Skills Stage 6 course aligns with the rationale, aim and objectives of the Modern History Stage 6 course. The Life Skills content has been developed from the Modern History syllabus to provide opportunities for integrated delivery.
The Modern History Life Skills Stage 6 course provides opportunities for students to explore the forces that have shaped the modern world. Students explore key events, developments, movements, individuals and groups of the recent past to develop an understanding of how these have impacted our world. Students are also provided with opportunities to participate in historical investigations to develop their knowledge, understanding and skills of historical inquiry.
Study in the Modern History Life Skills Stage 6 course contributes to students’ skills in locating, selecting, organising, planning and presenting information within an historical context.
The structure of the Modern History Life Skills Stage 6 course allows for a broad and balanced program that reflects the needs of students within the context of the collaborative curriculum planning process.
The course is organised into topics and case studies:
- Investigating Modern History
- The Nature of Modern History
- Case Studies
- Historical Investigation
- The Shaping of the Modern World 1919–1946
- Power and Authority in the Modern World
- National Studies
- Peace and Conflict
- Change in the Modern World.
The topics and case studies provide possible frameworks for addressing the Modern History Life Skills Stage 6 outcomes and content, and are suggestions only. The course provides flexibility to develop programs appropriate to the needs, strengths, goals, interests and prior learning of students.
Board Developed Course
Course number(s):
- 16673 Modern History Life Skills (2 units – Year 11)
- 16673 Modern History Life Skills (2 units – Year 12)
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:
- 11270 Modern History (2 units – Year 11)
- 15270 Modern History (2 units – Year 12)
- 15280 History Extension (1 unit – Year 12)
- 16699 Human Society and its Environment Life Skills (2 units – Year 11) (where Modern History is undertaken within the course)
- 16699 Human Society and its Environment Life Skills (2 units – Year 12) (where Modern History is undertaken within the course)
On entering students for the Modern History 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 Modern History 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
Use these materials to guide and plan your teaching and assessment. Sample materials illustrate different approaches to teaching, learning and assessment in a range of school settings. Teachers can use them without modification, change them or construct their own.
Read more about supporting students with special education needs.
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.
Modern History Life Skills outcomes worksheet Stage 6 (DOCX 20.36KB)