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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

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• 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

Entry Requirements

An interest and aptitude for the subject should be displayed at Key Stage 3.

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