Design & Technology HSC Syllabus

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Stage 6 Preliminary Course Content:

• Designing and Producing
  • design theory and practice
  • design processes
  • factors affecting designing and producing
  • design and production processes in domestic, community, industrial and commercial settings
  • technologies in industrial and commercial settings
  • environmental and social issues
  • creative approaches to design
  • collaborative approaches to design
  • project analysis
  • marketing and market research techniques, materials, tools and other resources
  • the realisation of ideas through the manipulation of techniques, materials tools and other resources
  • work health and safety
  • evaluation
  • project management
  • factors affecting management
  • communication
  • research methods
  • interpreting and presenting data
  • ethics in research
  • manufacturing and production
  • computer-based technologies

Stage 6 HSC Course Content:

• Innovation and Emerging Technologies
• Designing and Producing
  • Project proposal and project management
  • Project development and realisation
  • Project evaluation