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Overview

This course is designed to offer students the opportunity to study the way societies shape people's ideas and behaviour and how in turn, people interact and shape their societies. Throughout the course students will also have the chance to consider their own experience of the world around and develop the knowledge and skills needed to play a part within the community.

With this qualification, students may 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:

• Develop understanding of the interdependence of individuals, groups, institutions and societies; the nature and significance of cooperation and conflict, and continuity and change; the nature and significance of individual and social differences in their own and other societies.
• Acquire, select and handle information (making use of information and communication technology where appropriate), to analyse critically its nature and source and to base judgements and arguments on evidence.
• Reflect on their own experience of the social world in which they live and acquire knowledge and develop skills which enable them to play informed roles within the community.