The aims and objectives of this qualification are to enable students to:
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 	<li>Develop and extend their knowledge and understanding of specified key events, periods and societies in history; and of the wide diversity of human experience</li>
 	<li>Engage in historical enquiry to develop as independent learners and as critical and reflective thinkers</li>
 	<li>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</li>
 	<li>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</li>
 	<li>Organise and communicate their historical knowledge and understanding in different ways and reach substantiated conclusions.</li>
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