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Human Rights & Global Citizens

What's it all about?

This elective takes you through the requisite skills and knowledge a middle school student needs to be aware of regarding the nature of individual human rights and as global citizens. This unit aims to help the students understand the meaning of human rights and examine the ways in which government, at a state and national level, functions to protect these rights, as individual citizens and as global citizens.

What type of things will I do?

Complete a Human Rights Activity using Key Notes, Human Rights Organisation Research, Newspaper Article review and a range of workbook exercises. All assessment work is to be completed on students’ iPads.

What will I learn?

TOPIC 1

  • Important of Human rights

  • Universal Declaration of Human rights

TOPIC 2

  • Role of United Nations, Peace Keeping Forces and Active Citizenship

TOPIC 3

  • Australia’s Human Rights, Commonwealth Law and State Laws

  • Victoria’s Charter of Rights

  • Human Right’s issues and problems affecting the global world

What can this lead to?

University and TAFE courses in History, Sociology, Arts and Politics.

POSSIBLE PATHWAY 

YEAR                               COURSES OFFERED 

YEAR 10                            Human Rights and Global Citizens 

YEAR 11                            Global Politics 

YEAR 12                            Global Politics 


Why choose this subject?

Choose this subject if you are interested in learning about Civil Rights, Activism, Protests, Politics and Leaders.

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