Year 12 Life & Faith
12LIFA Course DescriptionTeacher in Charge: Ms S. Tapaleao.
Recommended Prior LearningStudents are recommended to have passed the Life and Faith Internal assessment at level 1 or have successfully succeeded and attained enough credits to pass Level 1 English or History.
Life and Faith follows the National Religious Education Curriculum and is a full academic course. This course is assessed through Internal Achievements Standards.
Students will develop an understanding of the Bible and the historical establishment of the Protestant church and the break away from the traditional Catholic church. Students will also study certain Methodist organisational social actions and its origins, relating it to the ethical principles of Methodist practices. Such as our schools special character, Bible scriptures, John Wesley's sermons and manifesto.
In Year 12 Life and Faith students will be offered 18 Internal credits through Achievement Standards from Religious studies in which students can gain a Merit or Excellence endorsement by achieving 14 credits or more at Merit or Excellence. By continuing with Life and Faith students can go onto Year 13 Life and Faith which is an approved subject that can be used for their University Entrance pathway.
From this subject student can also gain structured writing skills that can help them in other subject areas around the school.
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Pathway
Those who choose to undertake tertiary study can use the critical thinking skills and knowledge they developed in Religious studies to pursue a range of career pathways, such as work in the government sector as a researcher or policy analyst, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), humanitarian work, social work, project management, or journalism.