History

Assessment

Students will also complete a piece of coursework. The purpose of this coursework is to enable students to develop skills in the analysis and evaluation of interpretations of history in a chosen question, problem or issue as part of an independently researched assignment. The focus is on understanding the nature and purpose of the work of the historian. Students will be required to form a critical view based on relevant reading on the question, problem or issue. They will also be specifically required to analyse, explain and evaluate the interpretations of three historians. The coursework will be assessed using a centre-set assignment. Students will have a choice on the focus of their historical controversy from topics such as: the nature of Hitler’s rule and the Nazi state, women’s suffrage, civil rights, the impact of the 1916 Easter Rising; the French Revolution and the causes of the First World War.