The CCEA GCSE History specification provides opportunities to study a range of topics, from Hitler’s dictatorship, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Northern Ireland’s civil unrest, to the USA’s response to 9/11.

This specification is unitised, so we aim to take part of the assessment at the end of the first year of study.

The specification has two units:

Unit 1: Section A: Modern World Studies in Depth and Section B: Local Study – within this we study ‘Life in Nazi Germany, 1933-1945 and ‘Changing Relations: Northern Ireland and its Neighbours, 1965–98’. (Worth 60% of final qualification)

Unit 2: Outline Study International Relations, 1945–2003. This unit covers a range of events from the time period known as the Cold War and takes us up to and including the recent War on Terror which developed throughout the 1990s and early 2000s. (Worth 40% of final qualification)

The A Level specification contains four units, two at AS (40%) and two at A2 (60%)

• Unit AS 1: Historical Investigations and Interpretations

  • We study AS 1: Option 5 – Germany 1919-45

• Unit AS 2: Historical Conflict and Change

  • We study AS 2: Option 5 – Russia 1914-41

• Unit A2 1: Change Over Time

  • We study A2 1: Option 2 – Ireland Under the Union 1800-1900

• Unit A2 2: Historical Investigations and Interpretations

  • We study A2 2: Option 4 – The Partition of Ireland 1900-25

Website:

https://ccea.org.uk/history