History

Course summary

The aims and objectives of the AQA GCE Advanced History are to enable students to: • Study the nature of causes and consequences, of change and continuity, and of similarities and differences over a long period. • Study the links between perspectives, such as political, economic, social, or religious as well as appreciating developments relating to the perspectives separately over time. • Study roles played by individuals, groups, ideas, or ideology. Students are encouraged to understand and think intelligently about aspects of History. It involves much more than just learning vast amounts of factual information. Of course, there is a lot to learn and students will immediately notice how much greater detail a topic is covered than at GCSE. However, what most students find most rewarding in History is the attempt to understand, evaluate, and analyze the past. Questions at the AS/A level will never just ask students to simply recount what happened. They are designed to make you think critically about the material and formulate your judgment. Learners will have several skills relevant to many types of employment, such as the ability to seek information and analyze it to identify facts and motives and to present information clearly for others to understand. The skills you will obtain through studying history will be useful in several careers such as: • Museum Curator • Heritage Director • Teaching • Gallery Manager • Record Offices and Archives Manager • Journalism