Human Rights
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What will be in the course?

Through Human Rights, students can become more informed about the social, political, economic, and cultural factors that affect, or have affected, different societies both past and present.  Students develop skills to investigate, research, and analyse aspects of different societies.

Students will gain an understanding of how human rights impact culture, value and belief systems, and political and social structures.  They will develop an understanding of individual societies and the interdependence of societies, and the skills to reflect on differences and similarities of different societies to the Australian context.

Human Rights also offers student an opportunity to reflect critically upon the significance of factors such as class, ethnicity, power and gender and other factors that affect the individuals and groups within a range of societies.

This subject will develop students’ communication skills, and, in particular, their abilities to read critically, write in clear prose, make relevant and informed contributions to class discussions, reference correctly, and present ideas in a variety of ways.

This subject offers students the opportunity to study a range of societies and aspects defining those societies, both in the past and in the present. This may include:

• History
• Culture and cultural diversity
• Social, economic and political structures
• Issues affecting those societies
• Future implications for these societies
• The impact of social justice on national identity

Year 10 Human Rights is an excellent choice for students who wish to study History, Legal Studies, Geography, or Economics in Years 11 and 12.

What are the topics for study?

·         The Genesis of Human Rights

·         The Exploitation of Human Rights

·         The Transatlantic Slave Trade to the Civil Rights Movement

·         Asylum Seekers, Australia, and the Global Context

·         The “History Wars”

·         Closing the Gap

·         Dumb, Drunk, and Racist: Australia, multiculturalism, and national identity