Religion and Ethics
Year 11
St. Joseph's College
Gregory Terrace
Authority Registered Subject
This SAS guide refers to the QSA subject developed from the Study Area Specification in Religion and Ethics (2004).
This guide is also available for download Religion and Ethics - QSA
Focus of study area
Religion and Ethics helps students to know and understand the influence that values, belief systems or religious traditions have on their own and other people’s behaviour. A search for meaning helps students from various cultural, social, linguistic and economic backgrounds to learn about and reflect on the richness of religious and ethical worldviews.
Religion and Ethics encourages students to develop ethical attitudes and behaviours required for effective participation in the community and to think critically, creatively and constructively about their future role in it.
The core study area of Religion and Ethics focuses on the areas of ethics and meaning in life, incorporating personal, relational and spiritual dimensions of religious experience.
Students investigate these using an inquiry approach and relate them to their own life situations through a number of elective topics and a variety of learning experiences. The core study area is integrated across elective topics selected by individual schools.
The electives provide the context through which dimensions of religious experience are explored.
Opportunities for students
The program of study assists students to develop ethical attitudes and behaviours that encourage effective participation in the community and to think critically, creatively and constructively about their future role in it. Students should be involved in using the community as a resource for their learning and have opportunity to gain knowledge and skills they can use in life outside school.
Through a range of activities, students should develop positive attitudes and strategies for engaging as reflective learners in lifelong learning. Students will be involved in learning experiences that require creative and critical thinking, problem solving, networking, and planning and organising resources for presentations and projects that may incorporate collaborative and cooperative behaviours. Activities may include:
- working as a member of a group to collect, organise and record data to create a presentation
- using community resources through surveys, interviews, excursions and invitations to guest speakers
- accessing and using computer databases
- creating and participating in performance presentations such as drama, music and audiovisual presentations, seminars and debates
- publishing a pamphlet, local paper, or brochure that may be suitable for a media release
- preparing a folio of items that demonstrate a special interest
- developing a booklet for younger students in a variety of forms such as a comic book or a photographic essay, that depict a particular theme.
Nature of assessment
Assessment in Religion and Ethics is designed to enable students to demonstrate achievement of the objectives of the SAS, which are knowledge and understanding, processing skills and communication skills.
To determine a student’s level of achievement, a wide range of assessment techniques is used. Assessment techniques may include: response to stimulus materials (written or oral), presentations such as artistic, non-written or other forms of presentations including collages of images, preparing and presenting a class or school ritual/event or religious service, objective and short-answer tests. Tasks such as journals, project outcomes or oral or visual presentations could be the result of a field study.
Year 11 Religion and Ethics
Social Justice
| Unit Summary
Focus: There are inequalities in the world and vast differences between the very poor and the very rich. Religions provide a framework for examining such inequality. Social Justice issues have always evoked religious and ethical responses. This elective gives students the opportunity to:
Some of the questions addressed:- What are my rights? What are my responsibilities? Do I want to make a difference? How can I contribute to a just world? What is a "justice" spiritualty?
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Year 11 Religion and Ethics
Sacred Scriptures / Sacred Story
| Unit Summary
The unit provides students with an opportunity to:
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Year 11 Religion and Ethics
Good and Evil
| Unit Summary
This unit provides the opportunity for students to:
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Year 11 Religion and Ethics
World Religions
| Unit Summary
The unit provides students with the opportunity to:
To study adequately these concepts one or several religions could be selected. They comprise the traditionally accepted “Great Religions ”, Buddhism, Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism together with the study of primal religions, represented by Indigenous religion in Australia There is an attempt to broaden student knowledge and perception of other religious traditions. Links to revision questions are included here: Useful websites
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Year 11 Religion and Ethics - Links to Ministry
Term |
Religion program |
Ministry/other school programs |
links |
1
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Good and Evil |
Big Breakfast(Eddie's Van) Street retreats Night van |
This unit explores t explore institutional evil and why people end up in circumstances beyond their control. It looks at the concepts of Good and Evil in Society. |
2 |
Sacred Scriptures/Sacred Stories |
Big Breaky Street retreats Night van |
The students in this unit explore the use of scripture in today’s society and its relevance in today's world. Scripture is used as part of the reflection in both the Big Breaky and Street retreat experience. |
3 |
Social Justice |
Big Breaky Street retreats Night van |
The unit looks at the day to day issues of social justice from a practical as well as theoretical point of view. This is then put into action while on the Big Breaky, night van or street retreats. It asks students to be advocates for the poor and marginalised |
4 |
World Religions |
Big Breaky Street retreats Night van |
The students in this unit explore the religious beliefs of Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism ti help them begin to understand theperspectives of these religions. |
Year 11 Assessment tasks overview for Religion and Ethics
Term |
Unit |
Assessment type |
1 |
Good and evil |
Short answer Exam 100% |
2 |
Sacred Scriptures/ Sacred Story |
Multi modal presentation 100% |
3 |
Social Justice |
Report presentation 100% |
4 |
World Religions |
Short answer exam 100% |
Teachers of year 11 Religion and Ethics
- Ms. Jan Cameron
- Mr. Conor Finn
- Ms. Annie Connolly
- Mr. David Houston
- Mr. Peter Marendy
- Mr. Bill McCulloch
- Mrs. Mary Meadows
- Mr. Michael Connolly
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