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Exam Board: AQA History Specification B
Examination Structure:
Unit 1 Written Paper 1 hour 45 minutes 37.5% total marks
Unit 2 Written Paper 1 hour 45 minutes 37.5% total marks
Unit 3 Controlled Assessment 25% total marks
Why study GCSE History? It is hard to imagine you would ever regret taking History to GCSE level. History is a subject which stands in its own right but, equally, complements ALL your other subjects too, sitting comfortably alongside the Arts and/or Sciences. As a subject which demands high standards and rigour, Oxbridge and other prestigious universities welcome a History qualification. Your studies of 20th C world history will help you make more sense of the modern, contemporary world. You will find yourself understanding and taking an interest in news and current affairs programmes far more readily.
Studying History will help prepare you for hundreds of career opportunities from science and medicine through to law, media and finance because History teaches you not only how to read material and interpret it but to communicate complex ideas, to discriminate between fact and opinion and arrive at valid conclusions. Doctors, vets, lawyers, engineers, journalists, teachers, designers all need to communicate ideas effectively; History teaches you how.
Most importantly, of course, History is fascinating because it is the most human of all subjects; people, their characters, motives, strengths and weaknesses parade across the world stage to be honoured or vilified…sometimes even both. You will discover that History has no ‘right’ or ‘wrong’ definitive answers; historians interpret the past and they often disagree with each other. Those of you who enjoy lively debate will enjoy History lessons.
Course Content
Unit 1: International Relations: Conflict & Peace in the 20th C:
• Origins of First World War
• Peacemaking 1918-19 and the League of Nations
• Hitler’s Foreign Policy & the Origins of World War Two.
Unit 2: 20thC Depth Studies:
• The Roaring 20s: The USA 1919-29
• Depression & the New Deal: The USA 1929-1941
• Hitler’s Germany 1929-1939.
Unit 3: Historical Enquiry:
• A two part Historical Enquiry on The Changing Role & Status of Women since 1900.
The controlled assessment is a piece of work of approximately 2000 words set by AQA. Girls will study this topic with their teacher and then carry out independent research using the library, the internet, TV/radio, personal testimonies etc. The assignment will be written up during normal timetabled History lessons.
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