First World War Course
This course examines the First World War, covering alliances, major turning points, and profound social changes. Tailored for humanities educators, it connects diplomatic efforts, battlefronts, and home fronts to practical classroom strategies and dynamic primary source activities, equipping teachers with tools for impactful, evidence-driven lessons spanning the war's origins through to postwar outcomes.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
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What will I learn?
This focused First World War course provides a comprehensive overview of the conflict's causes—including alliance systems, imperial rivalries, nationalism, and the July Crisis—key battles and turning points up to 1918, global impacts on colonial soldiers, home fronts, and women's roles, plus postwar settlements. It equips educators with practical teaching strategies, primary source analysis methods, and assessment techniques for delivering engaging, evidence-based history instruction.
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Develop skills
- Analyse First World War alliance systems and explain how they escalated crises into full-scale war.
- Interpret key First World War battles, fronts, and turning points to gain clear historical understanding.
- Evaluate the social impacts of the First World War on civilians, women, and colonial soldiers.
- Utilise First World War primary sources to construct robust, evidence-based historical arguments.
- Develop engaging First World War lessons, debates, and assessments tailored for humanities students.
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