Outcomes express the specific intended results of the teaching of the syllabus. They are derived from the content of the syllabus and arranged in Stages. In a programmed unit of work students will work towards achieving several outcomes. It is not expected that students will achieve any one outcome in any single unit of work. Students may also study up to 200 hours of elective History.
History is a process of inquiry into questions of human affairs in their time and place.
It explores the possibilities and limits of comparing past to present and present to past. It allows students to develop their critical powers and to grasp the superiority of thinking and evaluation over an impulsive and uninformed rush to judgement and decision. It allows students to gain historical knowledge and skills, and to evaluate competing versions of the past within a rational framework of inquiry. Through an investigation of history, students learn about the differences in human experience, allowing them to compare their lives with those of people of other times, places and circumstances and, in turn, to learn to know themselves. You may view the complete NSW Geography Stages 4 and 5 here, including the tables of outcomes.