Chelmsford County High School for Girls

Subjects

History - Sixth Form

AS and A2 History, distinct but complementary, will give students the opportunity to explore a variety of historical periods, issues and personalities.

Edexcel is our exam board for AS and A2. This is a unique course which will enable students to pursue this subject at university, as very few centres study pre-twentieth century history.

Furthermore, History is an invaluable subject for anyone who wishes to pursue careers in management, politics, law or business. This is because history, as the "mother of all social science", not only provides an education about the past, but also an understanding of political systems, philosophy, economics, psychology, media and sociology.

NATO

Here are some useful documents for the NATO unit. The documents are in word format and may not load on computers which do not support this format.

• AS Student Guide to History

Scheme of Assessment

Year 12 - AS = 3 units	Year 13 - A2 = 3 units
Unit 1 Votes for Women, c-1880-1918 (1 hour 30 mins) Sourcework analysis, similar to Paper II in GCSE	Unit 4 Settlement and security: Elizabethan England, 1558-88 (1 hour 15 mins)
Unit 2 Pursuing 'Life and Liberty': Civil Rights in the U.S.A. 1945-68 (1 hour)	Unit 5 Coursework on "The Golden Age of Spain 1474-1598" c-2,500 words
Unit 3 France in Revolution 1776-94. Coursework c-2000 words.	Unit 6 The Crisis of the Tudor State, 1547-58 (1 hour 45 mins)

Philosophy of History

The Department is also proud to be able to offer an Advanced Extension Award course in the Philosophy of History. This is entirely optional and taught in staff and students' own time. It provides very able students with a space in which to reflect on the nature and function of the discipline of history, and to consider questions far beyond the ever-narrowing confines of examination syllabi. Who, for example, really won the Second World War? Is the history of fashion always frivolous? Has any revolution ever improved the lot of the common people? Is history always written by the winners? These and other questions help our students to develop as intellectual thinkers, rather than simply as learners of examination syllabi.

For further details, please see Dr. H. Graham, Head of History