Armenian Continuers Stage 6 Syllabus (2023)

The Armenian Continuers syllabus helps students develop their skills and cultural understanding of Armenian through tasks based on a range of texts and text types. Download the syllabus and find HSC support materials.

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About the course

The Armenian Continuers syllabus is part of the Collaborative Curriculum and Assessment Framework for Languages (CCAFL). Find out more about the syllabus, including the course description, prescribed concepts and what students learn.

CCAFL project

The CCAFL project is a national collaborative curriculum and assessment model that supports the provision of high quality languages education at the senior secondary level. It provides a common framework for syllabus development and external assessment across small candidature languages that might otherwise be unsustainable.

NESA’s active participation in the CCAFL project ensures the provision of consistent and uniform implementation of high quality language curriculum for those students in NSW wishing to undertake a small candidature language course.

Course description

This course provides opportunities for students to develop their skills and knowledge of Armenian. Through tasks associated with a range of texts and text types, students gain insight into the language and culture of Armenian-speaking communities.

What students learn

Preliminary

Students’ intercultural and linguistic skills, knowledge and understanding of Armenian will be developed through the study of a range of texts related to the concepts and topics, viewed from one or more of the 3 perspectives (personal, community and international).

HSC

Students’ intercultural and linguistic skills, knowledge and understanding of Armenian will continue to be developed through the study of a range of texts related to the concepts and topics, viewed from the 3 perspectives (personal, community and international).

Concepts

The Preliminary and HSC courses have prescribed concepts as their organisational focuses:

identity
legacy
responsibility
sustainability.

Each CCAFL Languages Continuers syllabus has mandatory topics related to these concepts.

Course numbers and exclusions

Board Developed Course

Course number(s):

11520 Armenian Continuers (2 units – Preliminary)
15530 Armenian Continuers (2 units – HSC)

Prerequisites: Nil

Corequisites: Nil

Eligibility: Strict eligibility rules apply to Armenian Continuers courses where an Armenian in Context and/or an Armenian and Literature course exists. Refer to Languages courses eligibility criteria.

Study via self-tuition: Yes

Exclusions: Nil

Course requirements

Nil.

Related industries

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: