The Higher course focusses on 8 challenging areas of employability each with its own industry application. These include town planning and estate agency, land use management and sustainable land use planning, climate sustainability, renewable energies, soil science, atmospheric studies and weather prediction and map work.

There is an outdoor fieldwork element to the course, this is an important part of Geography and develops team working skills whilst gathering scientific measurements from coastal ecosystems for further analysis.

The course is designed to use numeracy and literacy in a balanced way. The emphasis is on use of data, tables, graphs, maps and diagrams to form short response answers. Click here to visit our Faculty's dedicated Geography website where you can preview all of the lessons for the entire Higher course to see if it is of interest to you.

The Higher RMPS course consists of three units:  

World Religion: Buddhism – a study of the lives, beliefs and practices of Buddhists 

Morality and Belief: Medicine & the Human Body – a study of the morality of embryo research, organ donation and euthanasia 

Religious & Philosophical Questions: Origins – religious and non-religious responses to the Origins of the Universe, Origins of Life and compatibility between the two.  

RMPS aims to encourage students to reflect on their own life experiences, and to extend and develop their knowledge and understanding of Religious, Moral & Philosophical issues.  

Students will develop key employability skills in forming personal opinions, enquiry, debate, analysis and evaluation, essential career skills for social work, philosophy, NGOs and charities, journalism, research, law, archaeology, civil service or teacher. 

Go to the Social Subjects Faculty's own website to see examples of topics and resources used in Higher RMPS. 

 The Higher/ Senior Modern Studies course studied at Dunfermline High School in covers three units which are assessed by the final exam.

These are Democracy in Scotland and the UK, Social inequality and World Power: The USA. Whilst undertaking these key units’ pupils will learn three key enquiry skills based upon a pupil’s ability to link between sources, address the reliability of various written and numerical sources plus the key skill of using source evidence to reach valid conclusions. Pupils will also compliment these skills by learning structured long responses. Both of these types of questions are embedded throughout the whole course.

The course is designed to provide pupils with key employability skills such as analysis, synthesis of argument and presentation skills.

Modern Studies links to many great jobs and areas of further study such as journalism, the law, the police, teaching, politics, phycology and many more exciting opportunities.

 The Higher RMPS course consists of three units:  

World Religion: Buddhism – a study of the lives, beliefs and practices of Buddhists 

Morality and Belief: Medicine & the Human Body – a study of the morality of embryo research, organ donation and euthanasia 

Religious & Philosophical Questions: Origins – religious and non-religious responses to the Origins of the Universe, Origins of Life and compatibility between the two.  

RMPS aims to encourage students to reflect on their own life experiences, and to extend and develop their knowledge and understanding of Religious, Moral & Philosophical issues.  

Students will develop key employability skills in forming personal opinions, enquiry, debate, analysis and evaluation, essential career skills for social work, philosophy, NGOs and charities, journalism, research, law, archaeology, civil service or teacher. 

Go to the Social Subjects Faculty's own website to see examples of topics and resources used in Higher RMPS.