Intermediate 2
Pupils for whom higher grade in S5 is inappropriate, can continue with the subject at a lower level.
Areas of Study
The department offers 3 modules, each of 40 hours duration. Pupils will complete all 3 in the course of one session. However, pupils dropping into Intermediate 2 from Higher may only complete 1 or 2 modules in a session.
- The Road to War, 1933-39
- In the Shadow of the Bomb: The Cold War 1945-85
- From the Cradle to the Grave
Methodology
A wide variety of methodologies is used:
- oral recreation
- work-guides
- videos
Resources
- school-based information sheets and work-guides
- text-books:
- Appeasement and the Road to War - Cameron:
- The Cold War - Josh Brooman
- The Making of the Welfare State
- videos:
- Why Appeasement? The League of Nations;
- Hungary 1956; Berlin - The Last Days of the Wall;
- Eastern Europe - The End of an Empire?
- Cold War Confrontation; Cold War 1945; UN?
- Korea 1950; People Century - The End of Communism, 1989
- The Brambles of Poverty; The Liberal Reforms; The Hungry Thirties;
- Labour 1945-51; A Picture of Health