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Option Subject – GCSE History

Course Overview

The course aims to:

• develop and extend your knowledge and understanding of specified key events,
periods, and societies in local, British, and wider world history;
• 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 of why 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

There are 5 main topic areas which you will study:

9) Thematic study : Medicine in Britain, c1250 – present day
10) Historic Environment study : The British Sector of the Western Front 1914 – 1918 :
Injuries, treatment, and the trenches
11) British Depth study : The reigns of King Richard I and King John 1189 – 1216
12) Period study : The American West c1835 – 1895
13) Modern Depth Study : Weimar and Nazi Germany 1918 – 1939

These are assessed by a mixture of question types including analysis of source material.

This course can guide many students in careers such as Tourism and leisure, Journalism,
Drama, Social work, Law, Archaeology, Museums / archives, Teaching amongst others.

Specification: Edexcel History 9 – 1.

Final exam: June of Year 11.

Course Code: 1H10.