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
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:
Relationships and Interests – Socialising and debating
Future Aspirations – Planning and persuading
Spanish Perspectives – Creating and analysing
Language and Identity – Translating and reflecting
Spanish - Global Perspectives
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:
Global Connections – Socialising and debating
Life Choices – Planning and persuading
Spanish Insights – Creating and critiquing
Language Legacy – Translating and reflecting
Creative Arts
Drama
Drama - Foundations
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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:
Body Systems and Energy for Physical Activity
Physical Activity for Health
Physical Fitness
Fundamentals of Movement Skill Development
Sport Studies – Coaching, Pathways, and Performance
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:
Australia's Sporting Identity
Opportunities & Pathways in Physical Activity and Sport
Coaching
Technology, Participation & Performance
Technologies
Agriculture
Agriculture - Animal Husbandry Techniques
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
