IGCSE History The aims and objectives of this qualification are to enable students to: • develop and extend their knowledge and understanding of specified key events, periods and societies in history; and of the wide diversity of human experience • engage in historical enquiry to develop as independent learners and as critical and reflective thinkers • develop the ability to ask relevant questions about the past, to investigate issues critically and to make valid historical claims by using a range of sources in their historical context • develop an awareness that different people, events and developments have been accorded historical significance and how and why different interpretations have been constructed about them • organise and communicate their historical knowledge and understanding in different ways and reach substantiated conclusions.
Course Content Paper 1: Depth Studies Paper: Germany: development of dictatorship, 1918–45 and A world divided: superpower relations, 1943–72 1 hour 30 minutes 50% of the qualification Paper 2: Investigation and Breadth Studies: The origins and course of the First World War, 1905–18 and Changes in medicine, c1848–c1948 1 hour 30 minutes 50% of the qualification Written examination: 1 hour and 20 minutes 30%* of the qualification Students take one of the following options: 1.Russia and the Soviet Union, 1917–41 2.Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–39 3.Mao’s China, 1945–76 4.The USA, 1954–75: conflict at home and abroad.
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