The course aims to develop each students’ ability to

•  develop and extend their knowledge and understanding of specified key events, periods and societies in history; and of the wide
  diversity of human experience
•  engage in historical enquiry to develop as independent learners and as critical and reflective thinkers
•  develop the ability to ask relevant questions about the past, to investigate issues critically and to make valid historical claims by
  using a range of sources in their historical context
•  develop an awareness that different people, events and developments have been accorded historical significance and how and why
  different interpretations have been constructed about them
•  organise and communicate their historical knowledge and understanding in different ways and reach substantiated conclusions.