13HIS - History - NCEA Level 3

We look at topics which are engaging for our students, and which are relevant and help the students to understand the world today.  The course looks at different types of government and political control.

There will be a field trip to the Bay of Islands as part of the New Zealand aspect of the course.

• Colonialism; New Zealand in the 19th Century; looking at early contact, the Treaty of Waitangi; the wars and conflict following the Treaty.

• Totalitarianism; Germany under Hitler and the USSR under Stalin. 

• We also study the Holocaust and the escalating persecution of the Jews by the Nazis.