"How do we remember, use and misuse the past? How do people change the world in the simple act of stepping out into the streets? How do dynasties form and how do those ruling families lose empires? Did we truly sleepwalk to disaster in the summer of 1914 and could we do it again? Why have we not yet founded a lasting peace on Earth? How do national myths form and extreme ideas rise? On what basis do democracies live, or die? How does ideology reshape entire societies? How did ordinary people experience the most extreme events of our age? How do conflicts truly begin, why do they become total and how are they brought to an end? How have people resisted and fought for justice in a world they see as unjust? 

The questions to be asked about your human past are endless. In Modern History, we take you on spectacular journeys that give you the chance to find the answers. 

In so doing, you develop your skills as critical thinkers and problem solvers. In your contemporary world, where democracy is on the retreat, where the global balance of power is shifting and where the ultimate questions of human happiness, peace and security are still being answered, there is no more relevant a time to become a student of Modern History. "

Dayne Stanger,  Course Coordinator and Teacher of Modern History