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8 Humanities
Weather & Climate
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1. Introduction to weather & climate
2. Types of rainfall
3. Factors influencing weather & climate
4. Weather & climate of China
5. Climate change
China 1900-1938
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1. Introduction to China
2. The fall of the Qing dynasty
3. What is History?
4. Who was Sun Yat-sen?
5. The warlord era
6. The Mukden incident
7. Field trip and formal assessment
Settlement
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1. Site and the early development of settlements
2. Settlement concepts
3. Urban land-use models - MEDC's
4. Benefits and problems of urban places - MEDCs
5. Urbanisation and land use models in LEDCs
6. Urbanisation in China
7. Problems of urban places in LEDCs
8. Shanty town experience
World religions
9 Humanities
Population
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Why study human population?
Population distribution
Population structure
Population growth
China's one child policy
Population unit reflections
Change
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Causes & consequences of change
The invention convention
World War One
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Entry Points
Europe in 1914
Long Term Causes
Short Term Causes
How the war was fought
Peace Treaties
Interpreting cartoons
Summative assessment - Treaty of Versailles essay
Revolution
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Marxism
Mao Zedong
The Great Leap Forward 1958
The Cultural Revolution
Processes of Erosion
10 Humanities
Tectonic activity
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Introduction to plate tectonics
Plate boundaries
Earthquakes & volcanoes
Business enterprise
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Starting a business
Business organisation
Marketing the business
Financial planning
The business plan
Trading & evaluation
The Cold War
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The origins of the Cold War
Design Thinking - Causes of the Cold War
The Korean War
Turning points in the Cold War
Cold War case study
End of the Cold War and fall of the Soviet Union
Globalisation
Diploma choices
DP Geography
BMS
1. Business Organisations
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1.1 Nature of business activity
1.2 Types of organisation
1.3 Organisational objectives
1.4 Stakeholders
1.5 External environment
1.6 Organisational planning tools
1.7 Growth & evolution
1.8 Change & the management of change
1.9 Globalisation
2. Human resources
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2.1 Human resource planning
2.2 Organisational structure
2.3 Communication
2.4 Leadership & management
2.5 Motivation
2.6 Organisational & corporate cultures (HL)
2.7 Employer & employee relations (HL)
2.8 Crisis management & contingency planning (HL)
3. Accounts & Finance
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3.1 Sources of finance
3.2 Investment appraisal
3.3 Working capital
3.4 Budgeting (HL)
3.5 Final accounts
3.6 Ratio analysis
4. Marketing
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4.1 The role of marketing
4.2 Marketing planning
4.3 Product
4.4 Price
4.5 Promotion
4.6 Place (Distribution)
4.7 International marketing
4.8 E-commerce
5. Operations Management
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5.1 Production methods
5.2 Costs & revenues
5.3 Break-even analysis
5.4 Quality assurance
5.5 Location
5.6 Innovation (HL)
5.7 Production planning
5.8 Project management (HL)
6. Business strategy
Business in the news
Revision (including RDB case study)
History
Units of Study
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World War One
Peacekeeping and Peacemaking
Imperial Russia 1853 - 1924
International Relations 1919 - 1939
The Weimar Republic and Hitler
Stalin
Internal Assessment
Second World War
Spanish Civil War
Mao
China: 1949 to 2000 (HL)
Imperial Japan 1912 - 1952 (HL)
China 1912 - 1949 (HL)
Origins of the Cold War
Essay writing and Exam technique
Review
Extended Essay
Business enterprise
Unit Question:
What makes an effective plan ?
Area of Interaction:
Human Ingenuity
Significant concept:
Systems