HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Business Studies Foundation 2

This course enables learners to gain an understanding of business and enterprise in Australia, with a particular focus on small business. It covers a broad range of topics and will assist students to understand why business is so important in society. Students will also develop practical work skills such as creating a business plan.

Learners are exposed to and encouraged to demonstrate enterprising behaviours and capabilities such as embracing change, seeking innovation and showing initiative.

Learners will develop skills that enable them to identify contemporary small business opportunities, investigate these by collecting and interpreting relevant information and data, apply business reasoning and concepts to make informed decisions and reflect on, evaluate and communicate their conclusions.

What will I learn from this course?

• an introduction to businesses and their role in Australian society

• principles of entrepreneurship and establishing a small business

• business economics

• financial management and basic accounting

• marketing

• social, ethical and environmental issues relating to business.

Pathways

1. Level 3 courses including Business Studies, Economics, Accounting, Legal Studies, VET Business or Tourism

2. a range of careers including entrepreneurship, business management, accounting and financial management, economics, human resources, marketing and information technology.

Business Studies 3

This course allows learners to engage critically with the world of business. Students may experience excursions to businesses such as Shambles Brewery and Tassal. On successful completion of this course, students will have knowledge and skills to:

• assess the effectiveness of business practices and management strategies

• conduct research and acquire business information from a variety of sources

• communicate business information

• apply a range of business and financial strategies to business situations

• analyse and evaluate business information, data and current issues.

What will I learn from this course?

• knowledge and skills from the five work units: the Business Environment, Operations, Human Resources, Finance and Marketing

• business skills through the completion of a business plan for their own business, including a feasibility study to judge whether the business is likely to be successful.

Pathways

1. a range of careers including finance, marketing, management, economics and accounting

2. valuable preparation for further study in VET or at university.

Accounting 3

Accounting is often described as the language of business. The study of Accounting will enable students to understand and explain the structure of business and how it works. This course is designed for students to develop knowledge and skills that enable them to:

• understand how to use financial information in business decision making

• record, report, analyse and interpret financial information for business organisations

• be able to evaluate business performance and potential. This could be for your own business or when starting a new business. What will I learn from this course?

• accounting is not just for accountants. You will gain valuable lifelong knowledge and skills for your personal and work life, particularly if you are thinking of buying or creating your own business

• understanding how businesses use processes to protect their assets from theft and loss

• how a business copes with activities such as managing its stock, having enough cash to pay expenses on time, collecting money from customers, etc

• experience with cloud-based accounting software.

Pathways

1. all businesses use accounting, so accounting skills are highly valued in many industries, particularly for business owners and managers and those involved in the management of staff, budgets or responsibility for business assets

2. majoring in Accounting at university will improve employment opportunites. Aaccounting firms in Hobart regularly offer cadetships for Year 12 leavers, giving students full-time work while studying a for a business degree.

3. learners can (voluntarily) undertake a UCP Course at UTAS during Term 3 and gain a subject for their degree (at no charge).

Economics 3

Economics investigates how individuals, groups and societies use scarce resources in the best possible way. Heightened media coverage of economic events and issues has created a growing perception of the relevance of studying economics and its implications for individual, business and government decisionmaking.

By studying Economics, learners develop an understanding of how we organise ourselves to satisfy people’s needs and wants.

They learn how economic events and issues affect their lives and how they can use the knowledge and skills of economics to inform their participation in society.

They become aware that economic decisions are not value free and have outcomes that may be inconsistent with social and ethical values.

What will I learn from this course?

• decision-making. Economics answers the question of how we, as a society and as individuals, use our scarce resources to satisfy our needs

• more than course content. Students obtain the life-long benefit of becoming educated voters with an understanding of how our economy actually works, and an understanding of alternative options that are available for governments

• the many costs and benefits associated with any government policy.

Pathways

1. while pathways include economics, business studies, finance and marketing, it is hard to think of any career where a knowledge of economics would not be highly beneficial.

History 2

This course explores the world from ancient times into the modern era. The course covers three modules:

Module 1: Investigating the ancient world

Module 2: Into the modern era

Module 3: Movements for change in the 20th century.

Module 1 will focus on the exploration of representations and interpretations of an ancient site, individual, or group.

Whereas Modules 2 and 3 will focus on the major developments and political movements that helped define and change the modern world. History 2 enables learners to understand how modern societies have evolved from ancient times.

As a Level 2 course, there is no external examination and students will produce work through a range of written, multimodal and oral tasks.

What will I learn from this course?

• research skills

• writing and referencing skills

• evidence-based decision making

• understanding of different points of view

• critical thinking skills

Pathways

1. Ancient History 3

2. Australia in Asia and the Pacific 3

3. Geography 3

4. Modern History 3

5. Legal Studies 3

6. Studies of Religion.

Modern History 3

This course is divided into three areas of study: Modern Western Nations in the 20th Century; Modern Asian Nations in the 20th Century, and the Changing World Order, 1945 to 2010.

The first two areas will include studies of modern political systems and ideologies and their manifestations in the modern history of selected nations. The ideologies studied include socialism, communism, fascism, liberalism and nationalism. The key political systems studied include democracy and totalitarianism.

The third area focuses primarily on the Cold War and may also include events such as the rise of China as a significant world power, the breakup of the Soviet Union, international terrorism and globalisation.

If this course is being undertaken in Year 11, it is preferable that learners have achieved a minimum of a B in Year 10 English and/or HaSS.

What will I learn from this course?

• 1918 - 1945 Weimar Republic and Nazi Germany

• 1935 - 1976 China

• 1945 - 2010 The Cold War

Pathways

1. tertiary study in a range of areas including history, politics, Asian studies, law, religion and philosophy

2. would assist those working in journalism, law and education.