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Religious inquiry and learning skills (Units 3 and 4)
Underneath every unit sits the same skill set: using religious terms and concepts accurately, framing research questions and a coherent research plan, locating and organising information from a range of sources, identifying a source's origin, purpose and context, and analysing, interpreting and evaluating the reliability, usefulness and contestable nature of evidence — including reading data presented as tables, graphs or indices. Section One of the examination is built entirely on this skill set, and Section Three's essay tests the highest end of it: constructing a sustained, evidenced argument that critically evaluates a stated proposition about religion.
The search for meaning (Units 3 and 4)
Unit 3 asks how social factors shape the way people interact with religion — changes in society, demographics or institutions that push people toward or away from religious life. Unit 4 turns to a single significant religious person, examining the interplay between their life, their context and their religion.
Religious belief and practice (Units 3 and 4)
Unit 3 traces how one belief, teaching, ritual or practice within a religion has developed or changed over time. Unit 4 covers the concept of freedom from a religious perspective, and a belief, teaching, ritual or practice a religion provides to help people in their search for freedom.
Religious structures and processes (Units 3 and 4)
Unit 3 examines how a religion uses a particular structure or process to address an important issue. Unit 4 examines how and why a religion develops and expresses its beliefs — the institutions and processes behind belief formation itself, rather than a single doctrine.
The place of religion in society (Units 3 and 4)
Unit 3 covers the differing ways religion is viewed in society — as a positive social force, a source of division, or something in between, depending on who is asked. Unit 4 narrows this to the role religion plays in the public life of Australia or another nation.
Religion in historical contexts (Units 3 and 4)
Unit 3 asks for the significance of one religious event or issue from the past. Unit 4 asks for the interplay between a religion and an issue within a particular historical context — a closer, two-way relationship than Unit 3's more general significance question.
Current issues for religion (Units 3 and 4)
Unit 3 examines the nature of a current issue generating tension or conflict in society, and how and why a religion responds to that tension. Unit 4 asks for a current issue for a religion and how that religion interacts with the issue — framed from inside the religion rather than from society looking in.
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Religion and Life ATAR Course Year 12 Syllabus (for teaching from 2024)
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