Thinking Socially

Thinking Socially is an extension of other stuides in Humanities and can be used as a pathway to VCE subjects such as History, Geography and Philosophy.

Students participating in this course explore the following “big ideas”:

• Colonisation of Australia – settlement or invasion?
• Political and social rights – How did we get to where we are now?
• Wars – How have they affected our world?
• History – Whose story is it really?
• Change and development – How has it affected my life?
• What’s happening to our environment and how are humans influencing this?
• Poverty – Who’s to blame?
• Welfare – A right or a responsibility?
• Local issues [desalination plant, boat people, tourism] – How do they affect the way we live?
• What’s globalisation got to do with me?
• Growth, sustainability and ethics – What’s the connection?