SOR:Current HSC Course

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Continuing HSC Course (Year 12 class of 2006)

This course is divided into three parts:

1. Foundation Studies,
2. Cross Religion Studies,
3. Interest Study Project.

Foundation Studies

Foundation Studies are compulsory .

They are divided into:

1. Foundation Study 1: Aboriginal belief systems and spirituality
2. Foundation Study 2: The influence of religion in Australian society from 1901 to the present.
   NB: Foundation Study 3 is for SOR II Students Only
3. Foundation Study 3: Religion and media, and belief systems other than religious, in Australia.

Cross Religion Studies

SOR I students must study ONE of the following:
SOR II students must study THREE of the following:

• Cross Religion Study 1: Religious Rites
• Cross Religion Study 2: Religion and Ethics
• Cross Religion Study 3: Sacred Writings and Stories
• Cross Religion Study 4: Ways of Holiness
• Cross Religion Study 5: Teachers and Interpreters
• Cross Religion Study 6: Religion and Women.

Interest Studies

Students must undertake the study of ONE of the following:

• Religious Biography
• Religion and Architecture
• Religion and Visual Arts
• Religion and Literature
• Religion and Music
• Religion and Ecology
• Religion and the Media (SOR I students only)
• Religion and Non-religion (SOR I students only)
• Confucianism
• Shinto
• Sikhism
• Taoism
• Melanesian or Polynesian Religious Tradition
• An Interest Study Reflecting the Ethos of the School and Its Community.

from SOR Syllabus-2001
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