History

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Why Study History?

Most jobs require you to work with and understand people, handle information, solve problems and make decisions. History can help teach you some of these skills. History is about PEOPLE - not just leaders like Mandela or Kennedy - but ordinary people too! When you leave school and start work you'll need to be able to co-operate with people.

Studying History will give you the opportunity to discover why people behave as they do. If you want to find out what happened in the past you need to examine the available evidence - but that isn't always easy.

• You must learn to find relevant experience

• You must learn to distinguish between facts and opinion.

• You must decide how reliable your evidence is and how complete a picture it gives you of what happened.

• You must learn to make judgements when two pieces of evidence tell a different story.

The ability to deal confidently with written information and to use it accurately to make decisions is a very important skill - one that will impress employers. You will learn to research topics and to present information on them in different written, oral & visual styles

Course Structure

The course looks at a number of countries that have, in their different ways, made a major impact on 20th Century History. They include USA, the USSR and Vietnam. Also, we study the Civil Rights Movements in the USA, South Africa, Britain and Northern Ireland.

Assessment

The course has 2 examinations on world  history (75%) and 2 coursework assignments on British history (25%).