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Studying History helps make sense of the modern world and provides a broad general knowledge background that will stand you in good stead at university interviews and in life in general. History is a course that involves reading and discussing past events and making sense of the relative significance of these moments in time. At HSDC these skills of analysis and evaluation will be developed so that you can effectively think, read, communicate, and write about history to a higher level, whether directly for your exams, for further studies in humanities at university, or to be a successful person in modern society.
Five GCSEs at grade 4 or above including English Language and Mathematics.
On this History A Level course, you will have the opportunity to study a mix of British and American history covering the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries.The Making of a Superpower: USA, 1865-1975. This option allows you to study in breadth issues of change, continuity, cause and consequence within the context of American history from 1865-1975, starting with the end of both the Civil War and the practice of slavery in America. You will explore the political decisions of governments at times of great crises; study the roles of individuals and groups who sought equality and the challenges they faced; and understand how an isolated country began to dominate world affairs. The Making of Modern Britain: 1951 – 2007. This option provides for the in-depth study of the key political, economic, social and international changes that helped to mould Britain in the second half of the 20th century. It explores concepts such as government and opposition, class, social division and cultural change. It encourages you to reflect on Britain’s changing place in the world, as well as the interrelationship between political policies, economic developments and political survival.
Coursework – A focus on the different causes of witch-hunts in early modern Europe. In the second year, you will take two exams and produce one piece of coursework of approximately 4,000 words.
Our past students have gone on to a wide variety of Higher Education courses and out into various positions in the world of work. Degrees that our students have studied include history, history with qualified teacher status (primary and secondary teaching), modern history, medieval history, war studies, peace studies, American studies, international history and heritage conservation. Our students applying for law, politics or philosophy have also found their History A Level advantageous.
