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  • Unit Title

    Planning for Senior Secondary Humanities and Social Sciences
  • Unit Code

    HSS2230
  • Year

    2025
  • Enrolment Period

    1
  • Version

    2
  • Credit Points

    15
  • Full Year Unit

    N
  • Mode of Delivery

    On Campus
  • Unit Coordinator

    Dr Ekaterina THIVEOS

Description

This unit examines processes for planning and teaching Senior School Humanities and Social Sciences courses in Western Australia's Upper Secondary Curricula. Areas of focus include: an analysis of Year 11 and Year 12 course of study documents, teaching-learning strategies to achieve appropriate learning area outcomes, planning excursions, principles of assessment, and planning a teaching-learning program. Students will have the opportunity to specialise in one of the following: Economics, Geography, Modern History, Ancient History, or Politics and Law.

Prerequisite Rule

Y68 students must have passed HSS2130

Equivalent Rule

Unit was previously coded SSE2213, SSE3303, SSE2230

Learning Outcomes

On completion of this unit students should be able to:

  1. Plan and implement investigative teaching-learning activities to achieve intended learning outcomes.
  2. Explain the impact of curriculum developments on the implementation of senior secondary courses.
  3. Describe and explain the principles of assessment and assessment requirements of courses of study.
  4. Demonstrate knowledge of the duty of care requirements when planning excursions.
  5. Construct a functional teaching-learning programme for a WACE course of study.
  6. Identify and describe the scope and sequence of senior secondary courses.

Unit Content

  1. Policy issues, planning, implementing and integrating fieldwork.
  2. The structure, content and requirements of Senior School WACE courses of study.
  3. An overview of the philosophical and methodological contributions of various social science disciplines to secondary education at the national and state levels.
  4. Development of a model for long term planning of a senior secondary course.
  5. Integrating investigative activities into the learning programme.
  6. A review of WA School Curriculum and Standards Authority policy and procedures related to assessment, grading and moderation.
  7. An overview of curriculum developments and an analysis of their impact on teaching-learning processes.
  8. Avenues for teacher professional self-development.

Learning Experience

Students will attend on campus classes as well as engage in learning activities through ECU's LMS

JoondalupMount LawleySouth West (Bunbury)
Semester 2Not Offered11 x 3 hour seminar14 x 3 hour seminar

For more information see the Semester Timetable

Additional Learning Experience Information

Lectures, Workshops, Demonstrations, Multi-media presentations, Fieldwork, Independent and team learning, E-learning.

Assessment

GS1 GRADING SCHEMA 1 Used for standard coursework units

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

ON CAMPUS
TypeDescriptionValue
AssignmentAssignment50%
PresentationPresentation50%

Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005)

For the purposes of considering a request for Reasonable Adjustments under the Disability Standards for Education (Commonwealth 2005), inherent requirements for this subject are articulated in the Unit Description, Learning Outcomes and Assessment Requirements of this entry. The University is dedicated to provide support to those with special requirements. Further details on the support for students with disabilities or medical conditions can be found at the Access and Inclusion website.

Assessment

Students please note: The marks and grades received by students on assessments may be subject to further moderation. Informal vivas may be conducted as part of an assessment task, where staff require further information to confirm the learning outcomes have been met. All marks and grades are to be considered provisional until endorsed by the relevant School Progression Panel.

Academic Integrity

Integrity is a core value at Edith Cowan University, and it is expected that ECU students complete their assessment tasks honestly and with acknowledgement of other people's work as well as any generative artificial intelligence tools that may have been used. This means that assessment tasks must be completed individually (unless it is an authorised group assessment task) and any sources used must be referenced.

Breaches of academic integrity can include:

Plagiarism

Copying the words, ideas or creative works of other people or generative artificial intelligence tools, without referencing in accordance with stated University requirements. Students need to seek approval from the Unit Coordinator within the first week of study if they intend to use some of their previous work in an assessment task (self-plagiarism).

Unauthorised collaboration (collusion)

Working with other students and submitting the same or substantially similar work or portions of work when an individual submission was required. This includes students knowingly providing others with copies of their own work to use in the same or similar assessment task(s).

Contract cheating

Organising a friend, a family member, another student or an external person or organisation (e.g. through an online website) to complete or substantially edit or refine part or all of an assessment task(s) on their behalf.

Cheating in an exam

Using or having access to unauthorised materials in an exam or test.

Serious outcomes may be imposed if a student is found to have committed one of these breaches, up to and including expulsion from the University for repeated or serious acts.

ECU's policies and more information about academic integrity can be found on the student academic integrity website.

All commencing ECU students are required to complete the Academic Integrity Module.

Assessment Extension

In some circumstances, Students may apply to their Unit Coordinator to extend the due date of their Assessment Task(s) in accordance with ECU's Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000001386.

Special Consideration

Students may apply for Special Consideration in respect of a final unit grade, where their achievement was affected by Exceptional Circumstances as set out in the Assessment, Examination and Moderation Procedures - for more information visit https://askus2.ecu.edu.au/s/article/000003318.

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