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Overview

This course offers students the opportunity to study history and its development, including the study of change and cause over a long period of time. Students then study the subject more in depth by looking at key events, people, changes and issues concerning certain periods of history.

The content covers areas which include, Elizabethan England, Britain 1815-51, Medicine Through Time, Crime and Punishment Through Time and The American West. The course allows students to progress either directly to employment, or to study for an Advanced level qualification.

Specification aims

The aims of this specification are to encourage students to:

• Acquire knowledge and understanding of the human past.
• Investigate historical events, changes, people and issues.
• Develop understanding of how the past has been represented and interpreted.
• Use historical sources critically in their historical context.
• Organise and communicate knowledge and understanding of history.
• Draw conclusions and appreciate that these and other historical conclusions are liable to reassessment in the light of new or reinterpreted objectives.
• Develop an interest in and an enthusiasm for History, and to acquire a sound basis for further historical study.