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The study of the Geography ATAR course draws on students’ curiosity about the diversity of the world’s places and their peoples, cultures and environments.
This course provides students with the knowledge and understanding of the nature, causes and consequences of natural and ecological hazards, international integration in a range of spatial contexts, land cover transformations, and the challenges affecting the sustainability of places. In this course, students learn how to collect information from primary and secondary sources, such as field observation and data collection, mapping, monitoring, remote sensing, case studies and reports. |
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Geography ATAR WACE Breadth & Depth Requirement:
List A
Prerequisite
65% in HASS.
The Year 11 Geography ATAR course is made up of the following two units:
Unit 1
Natural and Ecological Hazards
Natural and ecological hazards pose risks to human life, health, and property, impacting biophysical, managed, and constructed environments. This unit explores how these hazards are perceived and managed locally, regionally, and globally.
Risk management involves prevention, mitigation, and preparedness:
- Prevention focuses on avoiding risks long-term.
- Mitigation aims to reduce or eliminate impacts.
- Preparedness ensures communities can respond to and recover from disasters through planning, education, information systems, and communications.
Students examine natural hazards (storms, cyclones, droughts, bushfires, flooding, earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides) and ecological hazards (pandemics, animal-transmitted diseases, plant invasions). They use geographical inquiry tools like spatial technologies to assess and forecast risks. Fieldwork may include visits to sites affected by earthquakes, cyclones, or bushfires.
Unit 2
Global Networks and Interconnections
Globalisation has led to economic and cultural transformations, altering spatial patterns and social-political dynamics. Advances in transport and communication have linked once-isolated cultures, shrinking time and space while influencing adaptation and resistance.
Students explore:
- Global production and consumption changes for a commodity, good, or service.
- Cultural diffusion, adoption, and adaptation across societies.
- Responses to international integration, including acceptance, adaptation, or resistance.
Using geographical inquiry methods and spatial technologies, students investigate global transformations, from local to global scales.
