This course can 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 consists of the following five units:
1. The Growth of Parliamentary Democracy c.1785 – c.1870
2. Industrialisation, Protest and Trade Unionism c.1785 –
c.1785-c.1870
3. Poverty and Pauperism; The Abolition of the Slave Trade
4. The Unification of Germany 1: 1840 – 1851
5. The Unification of Germany 1: 1852 – 1871
Entry Requirements: Level 2 English
Format of Course Materials: Paper-based
Assignments: Five written assignments
Exams: Two invigilated, closed book exams (135 minutes; 90 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? A-Level History Part 2
Find Out More: From NEC here
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