Course Outline
>> The Seminar Course Outline
Links
>> The
Society and Culture Teachers Association This is
an A site and a must for the seminars.
>>
HSC On Line
>>
HSC Exam Report 1995 ( Downloadable in pdf format )
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Teaching Support
>> The
Society and Culture Teachers Association
>>
FAQs and OHTs Society and Cutlure ( available in pdf format
)
>>
Preliminary Course Programming Ideas
>>
HSC Course Programming Ideas Pdf ( You will need to download
this one )
>> More Society and Culture
Teaching Sites
Assessment Tasks
You have a teaching and learning resource folder
assessment that is due for this course.
An assessment task
All of these elements of the resource folder will be due
in the last session ( Week 4 ) of the seminars
Mini-Pip proposal
Each student will choose an original topic of a kind comparable
with the Personal Interest Project done by students for the
HSC and undertake an exercise in research and reporting which
will naturally be limited by the time available. A proposal
of about 200words will be handed in noting methodologies,
central material and resources. This report will be modelled
on the PIP requirements.It should include the major PIP components
of an Introduction, Central Material, Conclusion and Annotated
Resource List (the resource list does not count as part of
the word limit)
Introduction
Approx 250 word covering all the requirements of a normal
Pip Introduction
Central Material
The main ideas of your Pip. It must include a cross-cultural
component and a summation of your methodologies. It may be
sub divided into sections based around the themes of your
topic. (Do not: have sections based on methodologies or one
section entitles "cross cultural component")
Conclusion
Covering what you will learn from the personal interest project.
i.e. about your topic, concepts, about yourself, research
methodologies, your social and cultural literacy, your society
etc.
Annotated Resource List Textbook Evaluation
See Syllabus for details
More information will be provided in Seminar 1
An assessment task & marking criteria
- Select an area of the HSC course (core or depth study)
and create an assessment task. You will need to include:
- Weighting
- Outcomes to be assessed
- Type of task and its components
- Detailed marking criteria
This should be no more than 2 A4 pages. A format as well
as examples will be provided in Session 3. You can also look
at the S&C support document via the BOS website.
Website review
- Locate and select a website that is relevant to an HSC
depth study / topic (you may wish to look for one that complements
your assessment task)
- Provide an accurate address for the siteProvide a 300-500
word review of the site, linking it to the relevant section
of the HSC course, its usefulness as either a teaching aid
or student resource, and ways in which the site can be used
to achieve the relevant sections of the course learn to
or learn about statements and outcomes.
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