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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 course covers twentieth century history up to the present day and approaches it in two different ways. Firstly, students study an outline of developments in international relations from the end of the First World War to the fall of Communism in Eastern Europe, 1919-1989 (the Core). Secondly, students look at studies in depth, over a shorter period, of societies, for example, the USA, 1919-1941. The course also includes an element of British history, which looks at social change in Britain between 1906 and 1918.

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 evidence.
• Develop an interest in and an enthusiasm for History, and to acquire a sound basis for further historical study.