Society and Culture Life Skills Stage 6 (2010)
About the course
The Society and Culture Life Skills Stage 6 course provides opportunities for students to develop an understanding of themselves, their own society and culture, as well as the societies and cultures of others. Students explore the interactions between persons, societies, cultures, environments and time.
Study of the Society and Culture Life Skills Stage 6 course should contribute to students’ skills of individual and/or collaborative research.
The structure of the Society and Culture 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 Society and Culture Life Skills course involves knowledge and understanding of
- personal, social and cultural identity
- interactions between persons, societies, cultures and environments over time
- key issues and challenges for cultures and societies in Australia and the world
and knowledge, understanding and skills in social and cultural research.
Board Developed Course
Course number(s):
- 16692 Society and Culture Life Skills (2 units – Preliminary)
- 16692 Society and Culture 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:
- 11330 Society and Culture (2 units – Preliminary)
- 15350 Society and Culture (2 units – HSC)
- 16699 Human Society and its Environment Life Skills (2 units – Preliminary) (where Society and Culture is undertaken within the course)
- 16699 Human Society and its Environment Life Skills (2 units – HSC) (where Society and Culture is undertaken within the course)
On entering students for the Society and Culture 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 Society and Culture 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.
Society and Culture Life Skills Stage 6 outcomes worksheet (DOCX 15.92KB)
Read more about supporting students with special education needs.