Unit 1 and 2 Business Management

Unit 1
Students explore the required skills to effectively plan a successful business. Students understand how to establish a business idea or concept in order to develop a marketable good or service. In Area of Study 1, students understand the key skills of an entrepreneur. In Area of Study 2, students understand pressures and influences of the external environment on a business including key stakeholders, economic condition and global issues.

In Area of Study 3, students explore the internal environment and the key structural components a business needs to succeed and plan to achieve profit and reach business objectives.

Unit 2
Students explore how to establish a business legally and structurally. In Area of Study 2, students explore the key skills to help advertise and market a business to expand market share and remain profitable. In Area of Study 2, students explore the key skills to help advertise and market a business to expand market share and customer sales.

In Area of Study 3 students explore how to manage staff in a business to promote productivity and effective outcomes. In both Unit 1 and 2, students consider a range of case studies to apply their key skills in context for understanding.

Unit 3 and 4 Business Management

Unit 3
Students explore how to effectively manage a business through its structural design, staffing and operations management.

Area of Study 1
Students explore the key components to establishing a business legally and structurally including learning key skills such as management styles, skills and approaches to build corporate culture.

Area of Study 2
Students explore how to manage staff to improve productivity and performance using a range of strategies such a motivation theories, strategies and training options. Students also explore the area of workplace relations to understand how remuneration working condition and entitlements are negotiated and set in a business.

Area of study 3
Students explore the key components of operations management where they understand the required processes to create a good or service as a product to be sold to customers. Through this area students understand ways to reduce waste and decrease environmental negative impacts on the economy.

Unit 4
Students explore the processes of transforming a business to change in order to remain a successful organisation.

Area of study 1
Students explore reviewing the performance of a business through the use of data to identify areas needed for change or improvement.
Students understand how to implement a change model and identify key restraining and driving forces for sustainable and successful change.

Area of study 2
Students then explore how a business can successfully implement change within it’s organisation. Students explore how business needs to structurally approach change and ensure that staff are participating and onboard with this decision. Students across both units use case studies to contextualise and provide real world examples and applications of the content studied.

In Area of Study 1
Students explore reviewing the performance of a business through the use of data to identify areas needed for change or improvement. Students understand how to implement a change model and identify key restraining and driving forces for sustainable and successful change.

In Area of Study 2
Students then explore how a business can successfully implement change within its organisation. Students explore how a business needs to structurally approach change and ensure that staff are participating and onboard with this decision. Students across both units use case studies to contextualise and provide real world examples and applications of the content studied.

In VCE History, students explore different revolutionary periods across history, with an in-depth study of the American and Russian revolution.

History is a dynamic discipline that involves an inquiry into the social, political, economic, cultural, environmental and technological that have shaped the past and present. To make meaning of the past, students use historical sources, which include primary sources and historical interpretations. Students analyse and evaluate evidence and use this when constructing historical arguments.

As aspiring historians students ask new questions, revise interpretations, or discover new sources, fresh understandings about the past come to light.

The study of VCE History fosters the ability to ask searching questions, to engage in independent research and to construct arguments about the past based on evidence from historical sources.

This study enables students to:

• Ask and use questions about the past, evaluate historical sources and construct historical arguments based on their use of sources as historical evidence.
• Develop an understanding of cause and consequence, continuity and change and significance
• Explore a range of eras and periods, events, people, places, ideas and historical perspectives to develop a broad understanding of the past
• Engage with historical interpretations and the contested debates between historians
• Recognise how our understanding of the past informs decision making in the present
• Appreciate that the world in which we live has not always been as it is now, and that it will continue to change in the future

MODERN HISTORY
History is the practice of understanding and making meaning of the past. Students learn about their historical past, their shared history and the people, ideas and evetns that have created present societies and cultures.

VCE History is relevant to students with a wide range of expectations, including those who wish to pursue formal study at Tertiary level, as well as provided valuable knowledge and skills for an understanding of the underpinnings of contemporary society.

Unit 1: Change and Conflict
In this unit students investigate the nature of social, political, economical and cultural change in the later part of the 19th century and the first half of the 20th century.
Modern History provides students with an opportunity to explore the significant events, idea individuals and movements that shaped the social political, economic and technological conditions and developments that have defined the modern world.

Unit 2: The changing world order
In this unit students investigate the nature and impact of the Cold War and challenges and changes to social, political and economic structures and systems of popwer in the second half of the twentieth century and the first decade of the twenty first century.

Unit 3 and 4: Revolutions
Students investigate the significant historical causes and consequences of political revolution. Revolutions represent great ruptures in time and are a major turning point in the collapse and destruction of an existing political order which results in extensive change to society.
Revolutions are caused by the interplay of events, ideas, individuals and popular movements, and the interplay between the political, social, cultural, economic and environmental conditions. Their consequences have a profound effect on the political and social structures of the post revolutionary society.

Revolution is a dramatically accelerated process whereby the new regime attempts to create political, social, cultural and economic change and transformation based on the regime’s ideology. Change in post revolutionary society is not guaranteed or inevitable and continuities can remain from the pre-revolutionary society. The implementation of revolutionary ideology was often challenged internally by civil war and externally by foreign threats.

These challenges can result in a compromise of revolutionary ideals and extreme measure of violence, oppression and terror.

Causes of revolution.
What were the significant causes of revolution?
How did the actions of popular movements and particular individuals contribute to triggering a revolution?
To what extent did social tensions and ideological conflicts contribute to the outbreak of revolution?
Consequences of revolution