The Specialist Schools Trust

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• The Specialist Schools Trust
• Humanities Expert Panel Meeting March 3 2005
• GCSE Humanities Specifications
• Mariéa Christodoulou
• Humanities Association/Tideway School

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GCSE Humanities Specifications2004 Entries and
Market Share
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Specifications Available
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AQA Humanities Content

• Optional Units
• 2 from 5 units must be selected.
• Patterns of Family Life
• Prejudice and Persecution
• Power and Democracy
• Global Inequality
• People and Work
• Exam paper 2
• Knowledge and Understanding 20, Skills 10

• Core
• Culture and Beliefs
• Conflict and Co-operation
• Environmental Issues
• Exam Paper 1 pre release source materials in
  February in the year of the examination
• Knowledge and Understanding 30, Skills 15

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OCR Humanities Content

• Module 1
• Techniques of Research
• Exam Paper 2. Evidence used draws on Modules
  2,3,4,5,6. Knowledge and understanding 5,
  Interpretation and Evaluation 20

• M2 Issues of Citizenship
• M3 Economic and Industrial Issues
• M4 Environmental Issues
• M5 Religious and Moral Issues
• M6 Issues of Health and Welfare
• Exam Paper 1. Knowledge and Understanding 45,
  Interpretation and Evaluation 5

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WJEC Humanities Content
Core Option

• Geography
• People Environments
• Pattern Places
• History
• The United Kingdom, 1929-1945
• The United States of America, 1960-1990
• Religious Studies
• Christianity and Contemporary
• Lifestyle
• Christianity and one World
• Religion
• Christianity and Judaism
• Christianity and Islam
• Christianity and Hinduism
• One unit from each Geography, History and
  Religious Studies must be chosen

• Option one Contemporary Issues unit must be
  chosen from
• Tourism Travel and Leisure
• The Changing World of Work
• Health and Social Care
• Rights and Responsibilities
• War and Peace
• Each of the contemporary
• issues is cross-curricular in nature and contains
  elements drawn from all three constituent
  humanities

Knowledge and Understanding 41, Application 4,
Skills 12, Interpretation 3, Evaluation 15