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| General Studies |
| Course Description |
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Students who follow a course leading to AS or Advanced GCE in General Studies will be encouraged to:
- develop a greater awareness of human knowledge, understanding and behaviour
- integrate knowledge from a range of disciplines in order to develop a synoptic view of how they
- relate to one another and how each may contribute to the understanding if issues being studies
- appreciate that there are various ways of interpreting different types of information and assess the relative merit of evidence in order to understand such concepts as objectivity, neutrality and bias
- think critically, logically and constructively about significant problems, acquire an appreciation of the strengths and limitations of different approaches and demonstrate an ability to justify their own
- develop a critical awareness and understanding of perennial and contemporary issues and
- develop a greater awareness of their historical and contemporary contexts in order to enhance skills of evaluation
- communicate with coherence and clarity in an appropriate format and style.
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| Course Content |
AS Course
Aspects of Culture
Scientific Horizons
Social Perspectives
A2 Course
Cultural Expressions
Modern Society
The Contemporary World
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| General Comments |
| There are no prior knowledge requirements for AS and Advanced GCE in General Studies. The AS and Advanced GCE provide opportunities for students to demonstrate breadth of knowledge, an ability to transfer skills and make connections, integrate ideas and develop concepts, use arguments, make judgements and evaluate evidence, and examine questions from a broader standpoint than that of a single discipline. |
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