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Year 11 history
Year 11 history builds the analytical skills senior history courses rely on. Learners deepen their ability to analyse and evaluate sources, explore historiography (how history is written and debated), and survey major forces that shaped the modern world. Check your state or territory authority's course documents for the specific content of any senior course.
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Historical knowledge and understanding
- Forces that shaped the modern worldTopic outlineLearners survey nationalism, imperialism, revolution and ideology in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries as background for modern history courses.
- Investigating the ancient worldTopic outlineLearners explore how ancient historians use archaeology, inscriptions and texts, and the ethical issues in excavation, display and repatriation of cultural material.
Historical skills
- Advanced source analysisFull lesson · 60 minLearners analyse sources for origin, purpose, context, perspective and reliability, and evaluate their usefulness for a specific inquiry question.
- Introduction to historiographyFull lesson · 60 minLearners explore how historians' interpretations differ and change over time, using examples such as the 'History Wars' debate about Australia's frontier.