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VCE VET Health Assistance

VCE VET Health Assistance

Course Summary

Are you concerned about other’s people’s health and wellbeing? Do you strive to provide excellent help and support to other people? Studying Health Assistance at WSSC will open up several career pathways that assist health professional staff in the care of clients. You will gain knowledge and skills to interpret and apply medical knowledge. This will through a mixture of hands-on practical activities and classroom delivery.

VCE: Unit 1, Unit 2 and Unit 3 & 4 sequence available

ATAR Contribution: Unit 3 & 4 students complete scored assessments and an exam to attain a Study Score that contributes to an ATAR

VET: Students will only receive a Statement of Attainment under HLT33115 Certificate III in Health Services Assistance

Structured workplace learning advice: 80 hours is required

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Learn the skills to assist with movement
  • Develop the skills required for the first point of contact
  • Learn how to interpret and apply medical terminology
Find out more about VET Health Services Assistance
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D330KjttjIs
Find out more about VET Health Services Assistance at WSSC

This program is run as part of an Auspicing arrangement with IVET INSTITUTE, a Registered Training Organisation.  TIOD: 40548

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Accounting

Accounting

Course Summary

VCE Accounting explores the financial recording, reporting, analysis and decision-making processes of a sole proprietor small business. You will study both theoretical and practical aspects of accounting. You will learn how to collect, record, report and analyse financial data, and report, classify, verify and interpret accounting information, using both manual methods and information and communications technology (ICT).

You will apply critical thinking skills to a range of business situations to model alternative outcomes and to provide accounting advice to business owners. In business decision-making, financial as well as ethical considerations (incorporating social and environmental aspects) will be taken into account.

VCE: Unit 1, Unit 2 and Unit 3 & 4 sequence available

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Prepare accounting reports both manually and using ICT
  • Participate in simulated business activities such as recording and reporting of cash and credit transactions, non-current assets, balance day adjustments and inventory movement
  • Participate in discussions around ethical considerations in business, particularly in the area of accounting
  • Construct graphic representations of financial data to assist with the analysis of accounting reports and the evaluation of business performance

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What is Accounting?
Macmillan VCE Accounting 3&4 Textbook

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Unit 1 & 2

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Theatre Studies

Theatre Studies

Course Summary

Are you interested in the Theatre? Interested in Arts and Culture? In Theatre Studies you interpret scripts from the pre-modern era to the present day and produce theatre for audiences. Through practical and theoretical engagement with scripts, you look at the origins and development of theatre and the influences of theatre on cultures and societies. Also, you will be able to work in the production roles of actor, director and designer, to create scripted theatre for an audience.

VCE: Unit 1, Unit 2 and Unit 3 & 4 sequence available

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Interpret a script across two production roles and present performance
  • Explain how a script could be interpreted for performance
  • View and evaluate professional productions

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Health & Human Development

Health & Human Development

Course Summary

Are you interested in health and wellbeing locally and globally? Do you wish to pursue a career in health promotion, health, humanitarian aid, policy etc? By studying Health & Human Development you will examine health and wellbeing, and human development as dynamic concepts. You will develop an insight into the complex interplay of biological, socio-cultural and environmental factors, and how these can be modified by health care and other interventions. This will include considering the Australian and global contexts as they investigate variations in health status between populations and nations.

VCE: Unit 1, Unit 2 and Unit 3 & 4 sequence available

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Explore the complex nature of health and wellbeing, and human development
  • Examine how health and wellbeing may be influenced across the lifespan by the conditions into which people are born, grow, live, work and age
  • Develop health literacy to evaluate health information and take appropriate and positive action to support health and wellbeing and manage risks
  • Apply social justice principles to identify health and wellbeing inequities and analyse health and wellbeing interventions
  • Propose and implement action to positively influence health and wellbeing, and human development, outcomes at individual, local, national and/or global levels

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Jacaranda Key Concepts in Health and Human Development

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VCE VET Music (Sound Production)

VCE VET Music (Sound Production)

Course Summary

This course will teach you a range of practical skills and knowledge to record, mix, perform and edit sound sources. It covers areas such as soundtrack recording, digital editing and mixing, audio equipment operations and management.

Student will gain an entry level understanding of the music industry which could be involved in music performance, sound production, music creation and composition, music business.

The job roles that relate to this qualification may include assistant sound technician, assistant music manager, musician, sound assistant and road crew.

Upon successful completion of all course requirements, the RTO will issue a Certificate. Whereby a student has attained only some units, the RTO will issue a Statement of attainment for those units.

ATAR Contribution: Unit students do not receive a Study Score contribution for this subject

VET: CUA20620 Certificate II in Music (Sound Production)

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Develop basic audio skills and knowledge
  • Perform basic sound editing                           
  • Assist with sound recordings
  • Incorporate technology into music making
  • Develop skills to play or sing music
  • Incorporate music technology into performances
Find out more VET Music Industry
https://youtu.be/iRboB2pbFXU?t=107

This program is run as part of an Auspicing arrangement with College of Sound and Music Production, a Registered Training Organisation.  TIOD: 41549

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Music Contemporary Performance (Units 3 & 4)

Music Contemporary Performance Units (3 & 4)

Course Summary

Students prepare a program for assessment in a live performance. They may be assessed as primarily a member of a group or as a solo performer. All performances must include at least one ensemble work with another live musician and an original work created by an Australian artist since 1990. All performances must include a personally reimagined version of an existing work. Original works may also be included in the program. Students identify technical, expressive and stylistic challenges relevant to works they are preparing for performance. They listen and respond to a wide range of music by a variety of performers in contemporary styles. They also study music language concepts such as sales, harmony and rhythmic materials that relate to contemporary music. Styles including (but not limited to) rock, pop, jazz, EDM, country, funk and R&B.

VCE: Unit 3 & 4 sequence available

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Perform a selection of works being prepared for the performance examination, demonstrating an understanding of music style, authentic performance conventions and a range of techniques
  • Demonstrate and discuss performance development techniques and reimagining approaches relevant to the performances of selected works
  • Discuss a performer’s interpretation and manipulation of music elements and concepts in works
  • Identify, recreate and notate music language concepts
  • End of year performance examination-End of year written examination
Music Unit 1 & 2

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Drama

Drama

Course Summary

Do you enjoy improvising and performing? Looking at a career as a performer? In VCE Drama you will focus on creating, presenting and analysing self-devised solo and ensemble performances. You will explore real or imagined characters based on stimulus material that reflects personal, cultural and/or community experiences and stories. You will analysis your own performance work and professional performances.  You will explore a range of performance styles relevant to practices of story-telling, contemporary drama practice and the work of a variety of drama practitioners.

VCE: Unit 1, Unit 2 and Unit 3 & 4 sequence available

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Create and present a devised performance
  • Document your performance development
  • Analyse your performance
  • Analyse a professional production

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Music Inquiry (Unit 3 & 4)

Music Inquiry (Unit 3 & 4)

Course Summary

This study offers pathways for students whose main interest is a combination of performing, composing/arranging and investigating music through music making, analysing and responding in relation to their particular interests. Music making is a collective and integrated experience. It involves composing, arranging, interpreting, reimaging, improvising, recreating, performing and critiquing music in an informed manner. Students develop aural skills by responding to music from a range of sources across time and place. They analyse music works and/or styles and develop an understanding of how the treatment of music elements, concepts and compositional devices in one work and/or style can be identified and explained in the works of others.

VCE: Unit 3 & 4 sequence available

Learning Activities & Assessment

  • Perform a work in the style of a selected work/creator and explain how the performance relates to the selected music style and/or creator
  • Create and/or arrange music and demonstrate the connection to the selected music style and/or creator
  • Analyse and describe the treatment of music elements, concepts and compositional devices in two works
  • Listen and respond to selected music excerpts from a range of styles
  • Externally-assessed Task (EAT) – Submit a folio that contains documentation, video recording of a performance and an audio and/or video recording of a composition/arrangement
  • End of year written examination
Music Unit 1 and 2
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