This course is the follow-up to Part 1, and continues to give you the tools to analyse the past and understand the present. You will engage critically with significant world events and movements and investigate topics such as revolution and reform, global conflict and ideologies. You will explore how power, belief and identity have evolved over time and across societies. With this qualification, you can deepen your historical knowledge and strengthen your analytical, research and essay-writing skills.
The course contains five lessons that follow on from Part 1:
1. Non-Exam Assessment: The Suffragettes and the Great Reform Act
2. Prosperity and Social Change – Germany 1871 – 1990
3. Germany United 1871-1935
4. Germany Divided and Re-united 1945-1990
5. Revision
Entry Requirements: Level 2 English, plus History A-Level Part 1
Format of Course Materials: Paper-based
Assignments: Five written assignments. These do not contribute towards the final grade.
Exams: Three invigilated, closed book exams (135 minutes; 90 minutes; 135 minutes)
Prison Support Requirements: Facilitate tutor support via email. This often requires scanning learner assignments and email them to their tutor. Co-ordinate with NEC to arrange and facilitate exams.
Tutor Support: Yes
What’s Next? Open University Access Module Y031 Arts and Languages, or Y032 People, Work and Society
Find Out More: From NEC here
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