Human Society and Its Environment (HSIE) is the key learning area where students gain an enhanced sense of personal, community, national and global identity and where they are enabled to participate effectively in maintaining and improving the quality of their society and environment. 

The four strands of the HSIE syllabus are: 

• Change and Continuity
• Cultures
• Environments
• Social Systems and Structures

Through these strands students explore the content of history, geography, Aboriginal education, citizenship, environment and multicultural education. HSIE is often integrated with relevant religious education, science or english topics. 

In HSIE, students develop skills of identifying and gathering information, historical inquiry, critical thinking, mapping, presenting information and participating with others.