History

Course summary

Component 1: Breadth study - Tsarist and Communist Russia, 1855– 1964. In Year 2 students will study the significance of historical developments within Tsarist Russia and the Soviet Union over a period of around 100 years and associated interpretations. This option allows students to study in breadth, issues of change, continuity, cause and consequence in this period of the Tsars, Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev. Component 2: Depth study - The Making of Modern Britain, 1951– 2007. In Year 1 students will study this option which will consider in depth, the key political, economic, social and international changes which helped to mold 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 students to reflect on Britain’s changing place in the world as well as the inter-relationship between political policies, economic developments and political survival - this involves the study in depth of a major historical change or development and associated primary evidence. Component 3:Historical investigation – Tudors 1485-1603. (Coursework component) A personal independent study based upon an allocated question. This should take the form of a question in the context of approximately 100 years.