Subject Details - Stage 2 Cultural Explorations (CD)
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| SACE Stage | SACE Stage 2 |
| SACE Credits | 20 credits |
| Subject Length | 2 semesters |
| Description | The content of Stage 2 Cross-disciplinary Studies is built around:
• the learning interest
• an understanding of the relevant disciplines and capabilities.
The learning interest is a practical or theoretical challenge, topic, or issue that extends throughout the program. The learning interest can be expressed as:
• a challenging set of ideas or questions
• a theory or hypothesis to be explored or tested
• an initiating plan, a practical task, or a scheme to be investigated
• a complex problem (with contributing factors) to be explored.
In developing the learning interest, the following three steps provide a structure for teaching and learning programs:
• defining the learning interest
• applying knowledge and skills to develop the learning interest
• analysing and reflecting on learning. |
| Topics | The challenge, topic and issue for this course could revolve around
- a personally relevant and/or local social or environmental issue related to food production and consumers
- social, cultural or geographic change and the challenges involved in the change or move and how the challenge was addressed
Students will
- be involved in a group project where they have an opportunity to interview people about reasons for moving country or region
- investigate a particular social/cultural group to identify the social context of food practices and change over time
-keep a folio as a record of their learning, thinking, ideas, insights, further questions they have
- present a synopsis of their learning and personal conclusions that connect to a discipline such as Geography, History, Society and Culture or English. The synopsis may, for example, be in the form of an oral with a product (cultural artefact), creative performance (dance, visual art, a solution to a problem (multimodal).
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| Assessment | School based assessment:
AT 1: Commentary (30%)
AT 2: Group project (20%)
AT 3: Presentation and Discussion (20%)
External assessment:
AT 3: Analysis x1 (30%)
These are assessed against SACE performance standards:
1) Knowledge and Understanding
2) Application
3) Analysis and Reflection
4) Interaction and Communication
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| SACE Assessment Plan | Cross Disciplinary Studies |