IGCSE History Online Course
Looking for a flexible and effective way for your child to study History at home? TLC LIVE Online School’s IGCSE History course follows the Pearson Edexcel linear specification, helping students develop critical thinking, research and interpretation skills as they examine diverse perspectives on global events.
Taught live by qualified, UK-based teachers, our online lessons are interactive, supportive and designed to strengthen both confidence and mastery of history.
Discover our full online IGCSE curriculumIGCSE History Course Aims
This Edexcel IGCSE course aims to enable learners to:
- develop and extend their knowledge and understanding of specified key events, periods and societies in history; and of the wide diversity of human experience
- engage in historical enquiry to develop as independent learners and as critical and reflective thinkers
- develop the ability to ask relevant questions about the past, to investigate issues critically and to make valid historical claims by using a range of sources in their historical context
- develop an awareness that different people, events and developments have been accorded historical significance and how and why different interpretations have been constructed about them
- organise and communicate their historical knowledge and understanding in different ways and reach substantiated conclusions
Component 1: Depth Studies
Paper code: 4HI1/01
Written examination: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total marks available: 60 marks
Percentage of final grade: 50%
Content overview
- Germany: development of dictatorship, 1918–45
- A world divided: superpower relations, 1943–72
Component 2: Investigation and Breadth Studies
Paper code: 4HI1/02
Written examination: 1 hour 30 minutes
Total marks available: 60 marks
Percentage of final grade: 50%
Content overview
- Russia and the Soviet Union, 1905–24
- The Middle East: conflict, crisis and change, 1917–2012
Things to know
Course Name: International GCSE in History
Course Code: 4HI1
Exam Board: Pearson Edexcel
Examination Type: In-person or online
Course Duration: 2 years
Course Delivery: Online lessons (live) and access to course materials at all times
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