b'History Advanced General Certificate of EducationSubject OverviewHow lessons are taughtIt is difficult to avoid the impact of History in ourHistory lessons are taught using a wide range of active modern world. We are living with the consequences oflearning approaches including personal enquiry, group past events every day. A good historical education isactivities and fieldwork, as well as formal classroom essential to understand the world!based activities. We also include a trip to Berlin to study 6.1the Cold War and origins of the Holocaust at the end of Y12Unit 1: Y107 England 15471603: the Later Tudors:ProgressionThis covers the stability of the monarchy during the reigns of Edward VI, Mary Tudor and ElizabethHistorians develop enquiry, decision-making and I, including the issue of religious disputes betweenresearch skills, which will prepare them well for higher Catholic and Protestant and the causes and nature ofeducation courses or a wide range of career choices, rebellion and unrest.such as the legal profession, journalism and the Unit 2: Y223the Cold war in Europe 1941 to 1995:media, research, the police, teaching, advertising and Students will study the causes of the Cold War and howmarketing. History A Level is recognised as a facilitating it developed up to 1955, including the wartime tensions,A Level by most universities including the Russell Group. Iron Curtain speech, Soviet actions in Eastern Europe,Equally, employers and universities know that students Truman Doctrine and Marshall Plan. Students will alsoof History have a huge amount of transferable skills. The study the impact of key events such as the Hungarianresearch, analytical and presentational skills you learn in and Czech uprisings in the 1950s and 60s. FinallyHistory, to be able to interrogate and challenge different students will examine the collapse of communism inarguments whilst substantiating your own, are precisely USSR in 1991 and the war in Bosnia. the skills you need to operate in the world of work.6.2Unit 3: Y318 Russia and its Rulers 18551964: ThisExam Board OCRtheme focuses on the nature of Russian government andSubject Leader Mr R Furlongits impact on the Russian people and society. StudentsSpecific Entry Requirements: should understand the similarities and differences6 GCSEs (Grades 9-5) including Mathematics between the autocratic rule of the tsars to 1917 and theGrade 6 in GCSE History and Englishsubsequent Communist dictatorship to 1964. Unit 4: Y100 Independent Historical Investigation: This is a coursework unit of a 4000 word essay. Students have a free choice of what they wish to study. In the past many students have been very successful with the following: 1. Oliver Cromwell 1599-1658 2. British India 1815-78 5. Napoleon I 1795-1815 3. America between the wars 1918-41 4. The Cold War and its leaders 1940 to 1989 5. The War in Vietnam 1955-75 5. The Development of Rights for Women in Great Britain 1867-1918 6. Nazi Germany and the Holocaust 1933-45.History Trip to Berlin36 www.ttsonline.net'