NSS History
S3 Subject Choice
Why should I study History?
Analytical skills can
be applied to current
issues and other
subjects.
Critical mind with Solid foundation
1.
2.
3.
An understanding
of the past
Discover the origins and
development of modern
events
Approach the past and the
present from multipleperspectives
Develop skills of critical
thinking and make sound
judgments
What will you learn in NSS
History?
Theme A:
Modernization and
Transformation in the
Twentieth-Century Asia
• China
• Hong Kong
• Japan
• Southeast Asia
Theme B:
Conflicts and Cooperation in the
Twentieth-Century World
• Major conflicts and the quest
for peace
• The Two World Wars, The Cold
War, International cooperation
and the conflicts in the 1990s
An Introduction – The making of the Modern World
Assessments
Public Examination
(80%)
• Paper 1 (Data-based
questions)
• Paper 2 (Essay
questions)
Elective (20%)
An individual project
A.Comparative Studies
B.Issue-based studies
C.Local heritage studies
S5: Submission of Study
Outline (10%)
S6: Submission of Final
Product (10%)
Examples of SBA titles
1. Characteristics of different totalitarian states: A
comparison between Fascist Italy and Nazi
Germany (Comparative studies)
2. Was the First World War due to German
ambition? (Issue-based studies)
3. Changes and transformation of the Central
Police Station in Hong Kong (Local heritage
studies)
Students’ qualities to study
History
1. An inquiry mind to explore and explain (Why?)
2. A willingness to …
Imagine the situations in the past
Listen to stories
Draw connections to the present
3. Abilities to …
Read, write, memorise and make critical judgment
Have a fair level of English
“History is unrelated to me.”
• …People currently living were paying insufficient
attention to the dead. … young people at schools have
been given the idea of a liberal education, without the
substance of historical knowledge. … They have been
trained in the formulaic analysis…, not in the key skill of
reading widely and fast. They have been encouraged to
feel empathy with imagined … Holocaust victims, not to
write essays about why and how their predicaments
[suffering] arose. …
Niall Ferguson, Civilisation The West and The Rest (Allen
Lane, 2011)
“I’m only interested in the
future.”
• The dead outnumber the living, and we ignore the
accumulated experience of such a huge majority of
mankind. The past is the only reliable source of
knowledge about the fleeting present and to the
multiple futures that lie before us, only one of which will
actually happen. History is not just how we study the
past, it is how we study time itself.
Niall Ferguson, Civilisation The West and The Rest (Allen
Lane, 2011)
Thank you!