residential fieldwork visit in the UK and to improve your investigative geographical skills. This topic will be of great use to you in both geography and in supporting your learning and progress in other subjects where you carry out research, analyse data and draw conclusions from your findings. The skills developed here will also help prepare you for A-level studies in geography and other subjects too.
Assessment
There are three written papers (components 1 and 2 are worth 30% and component 3 worth 40% of the final mark). There is no controlled assessment or coursework.
Each exam paper requires a mix of shorter, data-response answers, plus some longer answers requiring specific case study knowledge. Component 3 of the exam will also ask about your fieldwork experiences and test your geographical skills.
HISTORY (OCR SYLLABUS HISTORY A (EXPLAINING THE MODERN WORLD) - J410)
The course has been designed to help students explain the world around us today. They will consider key themes which demonstrate the relevance of the past in understanding the present. All students are issued with text-books and the department is well stocked with IT equipment.
Students study three eras: Medieval (500-1500), Early Modern (1450-1750) and Modern (1700-present day). The students write three study’s of varying lengths. The course also covers three geographical contexts: historic environment, British and European.
The course comprises of five topics which are assessed in three examinations at the end of the course.
Topic 1 – Period Study on International Relations, 1918-2001
The focus of the period study is on the unfolding narrative of international relations from 1918– 2001. Students will study the forces and events that have come to shape our world as well as interpretations of historical controversies c o n c e r n i n g appeasement a n d
responsibility for Cold War tensions.
The inter-war years and the origins of the Second World War
Students learn about the attempts to keep world peace after the horrors of the First World War and discover why these failed.
The Cold War, 1945-1991
The focus here is the superpower rivalry between the USA and the USSR and cover events such as the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis and Vietnam.
The world after the Cold War
Students learn about the rise of international terrorism, culminating with the attack on the World Trade Centre in 2001.
Topic 2 – Depth Study on Germany, 1925-1955
This depth study focuses on the relationship between the German people and the Nazi regime that ruled Germany from 1933–1945. This topic also looks at the initial post-war period and the Allied policy of de-Nazification.
The rise and consolidation of the Nazi regime, 1925- 1934
Students find out about how the Nazis took advantage of events to achieve power and how they quickly they transformed Germany from a democracy into a dictatorship.
Nazi Germany and its people, 1933-1939
This section the students study how the Nazis used terror and propaganda to maintain power and look at their policies towards workers, women, children and the Jews.
War and its legacy, 1939-1955
Students learn about the effects of the war on Germany, the increasing racial persecution and the division of Germany after the war.
Topic 3 – Thematic Study on War and British Society, c.790- c.2010
This involves the study of different types of conflict, such as 29
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