Year 10 5ASOC1 – Social Studies (compulsory)

Available for study in: Compulsory for Year 10 students

Main areas of study: 

Students will explore human rights and transforming environments through a range of contexts. Some topics include:

• Understanding human rights (UNDHR)
• Comprehending the impacts of the Holocaust
• Exploring changing environments and how people have responded 

In this course you will learn:

• construct an essay of cause and effect
• identify differing perspectives on significant events 
• make ethical judgements about peoples actions in the past and how they reflect our own attitudes and values in a modern Aotearoa. 

This course provides explicit teaching of literacy - reading for meaning, research, academic writing, source analysis, identifying and exploring different perspectives and critical thinking. 

Methods of assessment:

Multiple choice knowledge assessment and two key skills/processes

• Academic Writing
• Perspective

This course leads to:    

Optional:

• 5SOC3 Social Studies: Exploring Geography and History (Optional Year 9 and 10)
• 5ACOM Commerce (Optional Year 10)
• 5ACTH Critical Thinking in the Humanities  (Optional Year 10)

Level One Social Science courses: Level 1 Social Science courses (6COM, 6GEO and 6HIS). All Social Studies courses provide an excellent foundation to gain success in senior Social Science courses such as Geography, History, Economics, Business Studies and Tourism.