VCE – Geography VCE – LegVCE – Legal Studiesal StudiesVCE – GeoVCE – Geographygraphy WHAT’S IT ALL ABOUT? WHAT WILL I LEARN?
The study of Geography allows students to explore, analyse and come to understand the characteristics of places and geographic phenomena: What is there? Where is it? Why is it there? What are the effects of it being there? How is it changing over time? How could, and should, it change in the future? How is it different from other places and phenomena? How are places and phenomena connected? Students explore these questions through fieldwork, the use of geospatial technologies and investigation of a wide range of secondary sources. These methods underpin the development of a unique framework for understanding the work, enabling students to appreciate its complexity, the diversity and interactions of its environments, economies and cultures, and the processes that helped form and transform these.
UNIT 1: HAZARDS AND DISASTERS
Area of study 1 – Characteristics of hazards: Students examine hazards at a range of scales, for example, coastal hazards and an alien animal invasion or floods and oil spills. The selection of hazards should allow students to undertake fieldwork. Area of study 2 – Response to hazards and disasters: Students explore the nature and effectiveness of measures, such as prediction and warning programs and community preparedness, as well as actions taken after hazards become destructive disasters.
UNIT 2: TOURISM & CHALLENGES
STRUCTURE OF STUDY DESIGN
Area of study 1 – Characteristics of tourism: Students examine the characteristics of tourism, the location and distribution of tourist destinations and the factors affecting different types of tourism. Area of study 2 – Impact of tourism: Students explore the environmental, economic and socio- cultural impacts of tourism. They investigate one local tourism location and another elsewhere in the world.
UNIT 1 Outcome 1: Characteristics of hazards Outcome 2: Responses to disasters UNIT 2 Outcome 1: Characteristics of tourism Outcome 2: Risks of Tourism
Contact persons: Mrs Susan Banfield Ms Joanne Nadal
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