Available Courses
There are two main types of courses available in the HSC: Board Developed Courses and Board Endorsed Courses. Board Developed Courses have a syllabus and final exam set by the Board of Studies, and generally may be included in the calculation of the ATAR. Board Endorsed Courses are developed by the school, and may vary from school to school in regards to content and assessment.
The following is a list of Board Developed Courses available to students.
- Aboriginal Studies
- Agriculture
- Ancient History
- Biology
- Business Studies
- Chemistry
- Community and Family Studies
- Dance
- Design and Technology
- Drama
- Earth and Environmental Science
- Economics
- Engineering Studies
- English (Advanced)
- English (Extension 1) (only available to students studying English (Advanced))
- English (Extension 2) (only available to students studying English (Advanced) and English (Extension 1))
- English (Standard)
- English as a Second Language
- Food Technology
- Geography
- History Extension (only available to students studying Ancient History and/or Modern History)
- Industrial Technology
- Information Processes and Technology
- Legal Studies
- General Mathematics
- Mathematics
- Mathematics (Extension 1) (only available to students studying Mathematics)
- Mathematics (Extension 2) (only available to students studying Mathematics and Mathematics (Extension 1))
- Modern History
- Music 1
- Music 2
- Music Extension (only available to students studying Music 2)
- Personal Development, Health and Physical Education
- Physics
- Senior Science
- Society and Culture
- Software Design and Development
- Studies of Religion I
- Studies of Religion II
- Textiles and Design
- Visual Arts
In addition, some VET (Vocational Education and Training) courses are offered. In addition to HSC credit, completion of these courses may earn an industry Certificate II. Ten of these are Board Developed Courses (BDC)
- Accounting (BDC)
- Animal Studies
- Aviation
- Business Services (BDC)
- Child Care
- Construction (BDC)
- Entertainment Industry (BDC)
- Hairdressing
- Horticulture
- Hospitality (BDC)
- Information Technology (BDC)
- Marketing
- Metal and Engineering (BDC)
- Primary Industries (BDC)
- Sport, Fitness and Recreation
- Retail (BDC)
- Tourism (BDC)
Languages are also offered as Beginners, Continuers, Extension, Background Speakers and recently, Heritage courses. Only one course of any one language may be taken, with the exception of Extension, available only to students taking the Continuers course. Due to the large number of language courses, they have been listed separately. The letters B (beginners), C (continuers), E (extension), BS (background speakers), H (heritage) indicate which courses are available for study.
- Arabic B, C, E
- Armenian C
- Chinese B, C, E, BS, H
- Classical Greek C, E,
- Classical Hebrew C, E
- Croatian C
- Dutch C
- Filipino C
- French B, C, E
- German B, C, E
- Hindi C
- Hungarian C
- Indonesian B, C, E, BS, H
- Italian B, C, E
- Japanese B, C, E, BS, H
- Khmer C
- Korean C, BS, H
- Latin C, E
- Macedonian C
- Malay BS
- Maltese C
- Modern Greek B, C, E
- Modern Hebrew C
- Persian BS
- Polish C
- Portuguese C
- Russian BS
- Serbian C
- Spanish B, C, E
- Swedish C
- Tamil C
- Turkish C
- Ukrainian C
- Vietnamese C
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