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Elective List & Course Information - New Learning Experience

What Electives can we choose from with Euka? What do they teach?

Euka offers a wide range of electives for students in Grades 9 and 10.

In total, there are up to 30 electives containing 120 courses, and you will be able to see all of our different electives added below, including their different courses and information.

Once/if you are enrolled and ready to select your child's electives for their studies, please do so via your Parent Portal.​

Students will receive a Statement of Attainment after completion of each elective (4 courses).


Languages

Spanish - Communication & Identity

Students communicate in Spanish across everyday and emerging contexts, interpreting ideas and perspectives in a range of texts. They create purposeful texts using accurate conventions and reflect on how language and culture shape identity.

Content

Spanish: Communication and Identity includes 4 courses:

  1. Relationships and Interests – Socialising and debating

  2. Future Aspirations – Planning and persuading

  3. Spanish Perspectives – Creating and analysing

  4. Language and Identity – Translating and reflecting

Spanish - Global Perspectives

Students communicate confidently in unfamiliar Spanish contexts and interpret perspectives across a range of texts. They create cohesive, purposeful texts and reflect on how language, culture and identity connect.

Content

Spanish: Global Perspectives includes 4 courses:

  1. Global Connections – Socialising and debating

  2. Life Choices – Planning and persuading

  3. Spanish Insights – Creating and critiquing

  4. Language Legacy – Translating and reflecting


Creative Arts

Drama

Drama - Foundations

Students create and perform drama using core elements, improvisation and physical expression. They apply scripted conventions in melodrama and reflect on how performance choices affect an audience.

Content

Drama: Foundation includes 4 courses

1. Elements of Drama

2. Theatre Sports

3. Masks & Movement

4. Scripted Melodrama

Drama - Specialised Techniques

Students perform across specialised theatre styles, using character, improvisation and ensemble skills. They manage staging transitions and adapt screen texts into effective live performance for an audience.

Content

Drama: Specialised Techniques includes 4 courses

1. Children's Theatre

2. Commedia dell'Arte

3. Transitions & Transformations

4. Screen to Stage

Dance

Dance - Fundamentals

Students perform fundamental and introductory modern dance skills with safe practice and control. They apply stylistic features across popular and social dance and describe how movement choices communicate meaning.

Content

Dance: Fundamentals includes 4 courses

1. Dance Choreography

2. Basic Modern/Contemporary Dance

3. Popular Dance Styles

4. Social Dance Techniques

Dance - Advanced Techniques

Students perform and refine advanced dance technique, demonstrating expressive control and confidence. They choreograph and analyse dance in cultural contexts, applying feedback to strengthen performance outcomes.

Content

Dance: Advanced Techniques includes 4 courses

1. Creative Choreography in Context

2. Expressive Modern Dance

3. Popular Dance in Culture

4. Social Dance & Musical Theatre

Music

Music - Contemporary & Popular Music

Students perform, compose and listen critically across contemporary popular genres including jazz and rock. They apply genre conventions and ensemble skills to explain and create music that communicates intended meaning.

Content

Music: Contemporary includes 4 courses

1. Music & Instruments

2. Popular Music

3. Jazz Music

4. Rock Music

Music - History & Genres

Students analyse and perform music across historical and cultural genres, explaining how context shapes style. They compose short works using music concepts and communicate evaluations with accurate musical terminology.

Content

Music: History & Genres includes 4 courses

1. Australian Music

2. Medieval Music

3. Cultural Music

4. Classical Music

Photography

Photography - Essentials

Students apply camera fundamentals and composition to create controlled still photographs for specific purposes. They analyse postmodern and historical photography and refine their own images using purposeful editing and visual reasoning.

Content

Photography: Essentials includes 4 courses

1. Fundamentals of Photography

2. Still Photography Techniques

3. Postmodern Digital Photography

4. Historical Photography Interpretations

Photography – Advanced Digital Media

Students create ethical digital media by analysing practitioner work and applying responsible production practices. They design interactive and moving works through iterative development and justify choices using accurate media terminology.

Content

Photography: Advanced Digital Media includes 4 courses

1. Ethical Issues in Media

2. Photographers & Digital Artists

3. Interactive Digital Media

4. Digital Moving Works

Visual Arts

Visual Arts – Human & Natural Art

Students create resolved artworks exploring human and natural themes across 2D and 3D forms. They analyse artists and contexts using art terminology and explain how visual choices communicate meaning and viewpoint.

Content

Visual Arts: Human & Natural Art includes 4 courses

1. Portrait Art

2. Art & Humanity

3. Art & Nature

4. Humanity vs Nature

Visual Arts – Concepts and Structures

Students create artworks that explore structure, symbolism, light, text and time to communicate ideas. They analyse artworks in context and evaluate how artistic choices influence meaning and audience interpretation.

Content

Visual Arts: Concepts & Structures includes 4 courses

1. Man-Made Structures

2. Light and Text

3. Art Symbolism

4. Art and Time


PDHPE

Child Studies

Child Studies – Development Foundations

Students explain early human development and apply newborn care knowledge to support health and wellbeing. They use basic research skills to communicate evidence-based strategies for supporting growth and development.

Content

Child Studies: Development Foundations includes 4 courses

1. Fetal Development and Birth

2. Newborn Care

3. Supporting Growth & Development

4. Thinking, Researching & Communicating

Child Studies – Early Learning Techniques

Students explain toddler development and apply childcare knowledge to support safe, nurturing environments. They design play-based learning experiences and propose nutrition choices that support healthy growth.

Content

Child Studies: Early Learning Techniques includes 4 courses

1. Toddler Development

2. Childcare Essentials

3. Play-based Learning

4. Feeding Young Minds

Sports Studies

Sport Studies – Movement and Health Foundations

Students explain body systems, energy and fitness concepts and analyse how physical activity supports health. They develop movement skills and propose basic strategies to improve performance, participation and safe engagement.

Content

Sport Studies: Movement and Health Foundations includes 4 courses:

  1. Body Systems and Energy for Physical Activity

  2. Physical Activity for Health

  3. Physical Fitness

  4. Fundamentals of Movement Skill Development

Sport Studies – Coaching, Pathways, and Performance

Students analyse Australia's sporting identity and identify pathways and roles in sport and physical activity. They apply coaching principles and evaluate how technology influences participation and performance, communicating informed and ethical recommendations.

Content

Sport Studies: Coaching, Pathways and Performance includes 4 courses:

  1. Australia's Sporting Identity

  2. Opportunities & Pathways in Physical Activity and Sport

  3. Coaching

  4. Technology, Participation & Performance


Technologies

Agriculture

Agriculture - Animal Husbandry Techniques

Students explain livestock enterprise practices across beef, poultry, sheep and dairy using safe and welfare-focused principles. They evaluate basic management strategies and communicate how ethical, sustainable practices support productivity and animal wellbeing.

Content

Agriculture: Animal Husbandry Techniques includes 4 courses:

1. Beef Enterprise Techniques

2. Layer Production Systems

3. Sheep Enterprise Skills

4. Dairy Enterprise Management

Agriculture – Crop & Plant Production

Students explain crop production processes for vegetables and grains, applying safe and appropriate agricultural practices. They compare growing conditions and sustainability strategies and explain how innovation supports food security and environmental care.

Content

Agriculture: Crop & Plant Production includes 4 courses:

1. Vegetable Cultivation

2. Wheat Production

3. Agricultural Systems & Solutions

4. Innovation & Industry Practices

Automotive Technology

Automotive Technology – Electric Vehicles

Students apply safe workshop practices and explain how traditional automotive systems compare with emerging electric vehicle technologies. They evaluate social and environmental impacts of automotive futures and communicate informed perspectives on industry change.

Content

Automative Technology: Electric Vehicles includes 4 courses:

1. Safety and Workshop Basics

2. Engines and Automotive Systems

3. Materials, Tools and Workshop Practices

4. Society, Environment and Automotive Futures

Automotive Technology – Traditional Engine Mechanics

Students apply safe workshop practices and explain key vehicle systems, tools and maintenance processes. They evaluate how design, materials and environmental factors influence automotive practice and communicate findings using accurate terminology.

Content

Automative Technology: Traditional Engine Mechanics includes 4 courses:

1. WHS and Risk Management in Automotive Contexts

2. Automotive Design and Materials

3. Automotive Systems and Tools

4. Environment, Industry and Society

Carpentry

Carpentry – Basics & Tools

Students apply WHS and tool-handling skills to plan and produce basic carpentry outcomes using suitable timber materials. They explain design and industry connections and communicate processes using accurate technical terminology.

Content

Carpentry: Basics & Tools includes 4 courses:

1. WHS and Risk Management of Tools, Equipment and Techniques

2. Design

3. Materials

4. Links to Industry

Carpentry – Projects & Techniques

Students will learn practical skills essential for carpentry work, such as accurately measuring and cutting materials, assembling structures, and finishing projects to industry standards. This elective emphasizes hands-on learning and project-based assessments to ensure students gain real-world experience.

Content

Carpentry: Projects & Techniques includes 4 courses:

1. Carpentry & Joinery

2. Carpentry Setting Out

3. Carpentry Project Completion

4. Carpentry Career Foundations

Computer Technology

Computer Technology – Game & Media Development

Students plan and build a beginner game or media project by defining requirements and applying structured development processes. They test and evaluate outcomes against criteria, identify improvements and communicate decisions including relevant ethical considerations.

Content

Computer Technology: Game & Media Development includes 4 courses:

1. Identifying & Defining Games and Simulations

2. Researching & Planning

3. Producing & Implementing (Beginner Projects)

4. Testing & Evaluating

Computer Technology – Software Applications

Students apply digital citizenship skills to participate safely and ethically online and use data responsibly. They use design thinking to prototype and evaluate a digital product, communicating decisions based on user needs and usability criteria.

Content

Computer Technology: Software Applications includes 4 courses:

1. Introduction to Digital Connections

2. Safe and Smart Online

3. Designing for Growth

4. From Prototype to Product

Design Technology

Design Technology – Concepts & Materials

Students apply the design process to develop and evaluate solutions in packaging, architecture and engineered systems contexts. They justify material and process choices and evaluate impacts using functional, sustainable and user-focused criteria.

Content

Design Technology: Concepts & Materials includes 4 courses:

1. Design Processes

2. Packaging Design Concepts

3. Architecture Design Processes

4. Engineered Systems Technology

Design Technology – Emerging & Ethical Technologies

Students analyse how emerging technologies shape design decisions and apply ethical, sustainable principles in varied contexts. They identify risks and evaluate solutions using clear criteria focused on user safety, responsibility and impact.

Content

Design Technology: Emerging & Ethical Technologies includes 4 courses:

1. Activity of Designers

2. Ethical Multimedia Design

3. Food Risk Management

4. Social Media Design

Food Technology

Food Technology – Cultural & Special Foods

Students explain how culture and equity shape food practices and access, and analyse how food choices affect health outcomes. They apply product development processes to design and evaluate food products and communicate informed recommendations.

Content

Food Technology: Cultural & Special Foods includes 4 courses:

1. Food in Australia

2. Food Equity

3. Food Product Development

4. Food Selection and Health Outcomes

Food Technology - Safety & Selection

Students apply food safety and hygiene principles to plan and evaluate catering and food preparation for varied contexts. They propose food choices for specific needs and analyse trends that influence consumer decisions and the food industry.

Content

Food Technology: Safety & Selection includes 4 courses:

1. Food Service and Catering

2. Food for Specific Needs

3. Food for Special Occasions

4. Food Trends

Marine Technology

Marine Technology – Life & Ecosystems

Students explain aquatic environments, water systems and ecosystem threats using safe investigation practices. They complete a marine mammals study, describing adaptations and conservation needs and communicating findings with accurate marine terminology.

Content

Marine Technology: Life & Ecosystems includes 4 courses:

1. Aquatic Environments

2. Water Systems and Cycles

3. Threats to Aquatic Environments

4. Marine Mammals Study

Marine Technology – Environment & Engineering

Students evaluate management strategies and technology applications that support healthy aquatic environments. They analyse pests, threats and marine species characteristics and communicate informed responses using accurate marine terminology.

Content

Marine Technology: Environment & Engineering includes 4 courses:

1. Management of Aquatic Environments

2. Technology and the Aquatic Environment

3. Marine Pests and Threats

4. Fish and Marine Species

Textiles

Textiles – Apparel & Costume Design

Students design and construct apparel and costume items, demonstrating accurate textile techniques and quality finishing. They document and evaluate design decisions, explaining how fabric and construction choices influence function and aesthetics.

Content

Textiles: Apparel & Costume includes 4 courses:

1. Design Basics

2. Pyjama Construction

3. Denim Apparel

4. Costume Capes

Textiles – Application & Art

Students design and construct non-apparel textiles, furnishings and toy art using appropriate materials and safe techniques. They analyse cultural textiles and evaluate their own work using clear criteria and accurate textile terminology.

Content

Textiles: Application & Art includes 4 courses:

1. Non-Apparel Textiles

2. Cultural Textiles

3. Textile Furnishings

4. Textile Toy Arts


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