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Geography ATAR : Teaching and Learning Program

 Geography investigates the arrangement of biophysical and human phenomena across space in order to understand the interconnections between people, places and environments.

The Course is divided into two units of study:

 Unit 1: Hazards

The focus of this unit is the management  of natural and ecological hazards and the risk they pose to people and environments. The increasing incidence of hazards, together with their impact on standards of living, has prompted the active search for proposed solutions. An understanding of how these hazards are perceived and managed at a local, regional and global level is developed in a range of ways. Firstly, an understanding of hazards (natural and ecological) is developed. Secondly, the spatial distribution of hazards and their cause and impact is examined. Thirdly, students investigate, where applicable, how human activity affects the risks associated with hazards. Finally, students investigate the strategies used to minimise this risk.

 Unit 2: Global Interconnections 

The focus of this unit is the investigation of the  economic and cultural transformations taking place in the world. It examines the spatial outcomes of these processes and their social and geopolitical consequences. The changes taking place in the spatial distribution of the  production and consumption of a commodity/good or service is explored, along with an investigation of  cultural diffusion, adoption and adaptation on a global scale. The unit assesses the ways in which people embrace, adapt to or resist the forces of international integration.

Caroline Quinlan