HSIE
The central concern of Society is the interaction of persons, societies, cultures, environments and time.
Society and Culture draws on cross-disciplinary concepts and social research methodologies from anthropology, communication, cultural studies, media studies, philosophy, psychology, social ecology and sociology.
Society and Culture has direct relevance to the immediate needs of students and to their future lives by enabling students to develop understanding of:
• themselves
• their own society and culture
• the societies and cultures of others.
Students are provided with the necessary concepts, skills, competencies and knowledge to encourage a process of independent thinking that may be used to explain patterns of behaviour, solve problems and actively contribute to local, national and global levels of
society.
Society and Culture is a conceptually based course that promotes students’ awareness of
the cultural continuities and changes within societies and cultures. It provides them with
skills to critically analyse complementary and contrasting viewpoints about people,
societies, cultures and environments, and their interactions across time. Society and
Culture promotes an awareness of the nature of power and authority, gender, technology
and facilitates intercultural understanding.
The emphasis on individual study and group work within Society and Culture encourages
students to manage their own learning, as well as providing experience of working within
teams. In allowing students to work in areas of direct relevance to their lives, Society and
Culture contributes greatly to the ethos of lifelong learning, while providing opportunities to
acquire a range of skills to support such learning.
The study of Society and Culture prepares students for adult life by developing qualities
associated with effective citizenship. In so doing, it forms a basis for moving towards a
more just society through positive participation in community life and, social and cultural
literacy.
Subject news
- Year 10 HSIE Assessment Task: Human Wellbeing due 16 July 2021
- Year 11 Legal Studies Assessment Task: the Individual and the Law due 4 June 2021
- Da Vinci Competition
- Year 11 Ancient History Assessment Task 2: Investigating Ancient History due 29 April 2021
- Year 10 HSIE Assessment Task: World War II due Tuesday 27 April 2021
- Years 9/10 Archaeology Assessment Task due 30 March 2021
- Year 10 HSIE Assessment Task due 29 March 2021
- Year 12 Ancient History Assessment Task: due 29 March 2021
- Medieval Music Incursion
- Year 11 Modern History Assessment Task: Investigating Modern History due 9am 1 April 2021
- Year 12 Legal Studies Assessment Task: Crime due 31 March 2021
- Year 11 Legal Studies Assessment Task: The Legal System Law Reform due 30 March 2021
- Year 11 Ancient History Assessment Task: Historical Investigation due 21 June 2021
- Year 10 HSIE Interconnections due 30 October 2020
- Year 12 Ancient History: Pompeii & Herculaneum due 11 December 2020
- Year 7 History Assessment Task: Ancient China due Term 4 Week 2
- Year 8 HSIE Assessment Task: The Asia Pacific world due Monday 31 August 2020
- 9/10 History Archaeology: Boudicca and the Celts due 17 August 2020
- Year 7 HSIE Board Game Presentations
- Year 11 Ancient History Features of ancient societies: Power and Image in Egypt
- Year 12 Business Studies: Business Human Resources due 20 March 2020
- Year 10 HSIE Assessment Task - World War II due 20 March 2020
- Year 9 HSIE Assessment Task : Making a better world due 25 March 2020
- Science/HSIE Excursion to Sydney 15-19 March 2020
- Year 9/10 Archaeology Elective Assessment Notification due 27 March 2020
- Year 8 History Assessment - Vikings due 10 March 2020
- Year 9 HSIE Assessment Task: Changing Places due 21 November 2019
- Year 8 HSIE Assessment Task - Depth Study 5: The Asia Pacific World due 1 November 2019
- Year 7 HSIE Assessment Task - Ancient Egypt due 16 Sept 2019
- Year 10 HSIE Assessment Notification - Changing rights and freedoms/Australia Decade of Change due 17 September 2019
- HSC Society & Culture: Popular Culture due 28 August 2019 Periods 1 & 2
- Year 9 HSIE Assessment Task: Australia & WW1 due 9 September 2019
- Sam Abbott wins lifetime membership to the British Museum!
- Year 12 Modern History Assessment Task 4: World Order due 30 August 2019
- Schools Tree Day
- Mock Trial success!!
- Year 11 Legal Studies - timed Writing Task - Law in practice - due 2 August 2019
- Year 7 HSIE Project Notification - Landscapes & Landforms - degradation & deforestation due 23 July 2019
- Mock Trial
- Year 8 History Assessment Notification - Vikings due 17 June 2019
- Year 7 HSIE Geography Assessment Task - Landscapes and Landforms due 17 June 2019
- Year 9/10 Commerce Assessment task - e-commerce due 17 May 2019
- Year 10 HSIE Assessment task - Human wellbeing due 30 May 2019
- Year 12 - Modern History - Timed Writing due 6 June 2019
- Year 12 Ancient History Assessment Task Core: Pompeii and Herculaneum due 13 May 2019
- Year 7 HSIE Assessment Task - Ancient China due 8 April 2019
- Year 11 Modern History - Revolution! - Historical investigation due 30 July 2019
- Year 9 HSIE Assessment Task - Depth Study 1 Making a Better World/The Industrial Revolution or New Ideas due 26 March 2019
- Year 12 Legal Studies Assessment Task - Crime due 9am 5 April 2019
- Year 9/10 Archaeology Assessment - Maritime Archaeology - due 1/4/2019
- Year 7 HSIE Artefact Activity
- STOP PRESS ! GREAT NEWS !
- Year 12 Legal Studies Assessment Task - Human Rights due 9am 5 April 2019
- Year 11 Modern History - Representation and Commemoration of the Past due 15 March 2019
- Year 11 Business Studies - Nature of Business due 13 May 2019
- Year 10 HSIE 2019
- Year 9 HSIE 2019
- Year 8 HSIE 2019
- Year 7 HSIE 2019
- HSC Modern History Assessment Task - Historical Investigation - due 18 March 2019
- My country my home by Keely Milford
- Revision booklet Year 10 HSIE Yearly Exam
- Year 8 Geography Assessment Notification - Interconnection - due 29 October 2018
- Year 7 HSIE Assessment Notification - Place & Liveability - due 26 October 2018
- Year 9/10 History Archaeology Elective Assessment Notification - The Space Race and Robin Hood - due 18 October 2018
- Federation Day celebrated at Coonabarabran High School
- Fred reports......on Ancient China discovery
- Year 9/10 Commerce Assessment Notification - Employment Issues due 13 August
- Year 10 HSIE Assessment Notification - Environmental Change and Management due 10 August 2018
- Year 7 HSIE Assessment Notification - The Asian World: China due 8 August 2018
- Year 8 HSIE Assessment Notification - The Asia Pacific World due 10 August 2018
- Jesse Somervaille selected to attend prestigious UBS Finance Academy
- Preliminary Legal Studies Assessment Notification - The Law in Practice due 10 August 2018
- Year 11 Business Studies - Business Planning due 3 August 2018
- Junior Examinations - Letter to Parents
- Preliminary Society & Culture - Personal and Social identity Essay Task - due Wed 27 June 2018
- Year 9/10 Commerce Assessment Task 2 - Promoting and Selling
- Year 11 and 12 HSIE and Science excursion to Sydney
- Years 9 and 10 Commerce - Law and Society due 26 March 2018
- Year 10 HSIE Assessment - Human Wellbeing due 30 March 2018
- Zoo Snooz
- Year 9 History
- Year 10 HSIE - Decade Study
- Indigenous Garden
- Year 9 Museum exhibits - HSIE
- Mock Trial Team
- Year 7 Geography excursion to the Warrumbungles
- Textbook Returns
- Overdue Library & Text books
- Ancient Egypt Mummies
- NAIDOC Day 2015