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History

OVERVIEW

The study is designed to enable students to:

  • Develop an understanding of change, continuity, causation and evidence over time
  • Acquire a knowledge of how people in different times and cultures have interacted, organised their societies and given meaning to their world
  • Develop the knowledge, concepts and skills to analyse the ways in which the past has been represented visually, orally and in written form
  • Develop skills responding to historical evidence creatively and critically to make meaning
  • Acquire a broad historical knowledge, including a historical map within which to locate their detailed studies

Throughout history God has been working to bring His purposes for man to a conclusion. It is this overall perspective on history, and the salvation which God intends, that is central to History.

In specific terms, students will gain and grow from a Biblical perspective of history by:

  • Identifying how closely linked most of history is to the development of Christian ideas
  • Analysing how Christian values have functioned in many historical settings, compared with other value systems. Understanding Christian cultures and communities of the past
  • Learning from the human frailty and misunderstandings of the past
  • Critically comparing non-Christian culture with Christian culture

SUBJECT LENGTH

Each Unit is 1 semester long. Units 3 & 4 must be completed together in a calendar year for a study score to be generated.

TOPICS INCLUDE

UNIT 1: TWENTIETH-CENTURY HISTORY (1918 - 1939)

  • Ideology and Conflict: Nazi Germany
  • Social and Cultural Change: Nazi Germany

UNIT 2: TWENTIETH-CENTURY HISTORY (1945 – 2000)

  • Competing Ideologies: Cold War
  • Challenge and Change: Apartheid in South Africa & Civil Rights in USA

UNITS 3 AND 4: REVOLUTIONS

  • Causes of Revolution

The Russian Revolution from 1896 to October 1917 (Coronation of Tsar Nicholas to the 25th October Revolution 1917)

The Chinese Revolution from 1912 to 1949 (The Chinese Republic to the Communist victory in the Civil War on the 1 October 1949).

  • Consequences of Revolution

The Russian Revolution from October 1917 to 1927 (Early Sovnarkom decrees to the end of the NEP)

The Chinese Revolution from 1949 to 1971 (Communist victory to the death of Lin Biao).

PREREQUISITES

  • No prerequisites

ASSESSMENT

Units 1&2

Coursework assessment tasks over Units 1 and 2 should include the following:

  • A historical inquiry
  • An analysis of primary sources
  • An analysis of historical interpretations
  • An essay
  • Examination

 

  • School Assessed Coursework Unit 1 (35%)
  • School Assessed Coursework Unit 2 (35%)
  • School Based Assessment: Examination (30%)

 

Units 3&4

Coursework assessment tasks over Units 3 and 4 should include the following:

  • A historical inquiry
  • An analysis of primary sources
  • An analysis of historical interpretations
  • An essay

 

  • School Assessed Coursework Unit 3 (25%)
  • School Assessed Coursework Unit 4 (25%)
  • External Examination (2 hours) (50%)