Legal Studies HSC Syllabus

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Stage 6 Preliminary Course Content:

• Core Part I: The legal system
  • Basic legal concepts
  • Sources of contemporary
  • Australian law
  • Classification of law
  • Law reform
  • Law reform in action
• Core Part II: The individual and the law
  • Your rights and responsibilities
  • Resolving disputes
  • Contemporary issue: the individual and technology
• Core Part III: Law in practice

Stage 6 HSC Course Content:

• Core Part I: Crime
• The nature of crime
• The criminal investigation process
• The criminal trial process
• Sentencing and punishment
• Young offenders
• International crime
• Core Part II: Human rights
• The nature and development of human rights
• Promoting and enforcing human rights
• Contemporary issue
• Part III: Options
  • Consumers
  • Global environmental protection
  • Family
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Shelter
  • Workplace
  • World order