Text Box: AS/ ‘A’ LEVEL GENERAL STUDIES Text Box: Students are prepared for the AS exams in Year 12 and are then able to choose whether to take the subject through to ‘A’ level in Year 13. The course is broad ranging and is structured around three overlapping areas: Science, Mathematics and Technology Culture, Morality, Arts and Humanities Society, Politics and the Economy The units are as follows: AS Unit 1: Conflict Aggression, scientific controversy, social tensions, popular and performing arts, market forces, stereotyping and stakeholding. AS Unit 2: Power Fuels and physical fitness, education and voting, media influence, advertising and globalisation, powers, social and religious. AS Unit 3: Space Climate change, housing and migration, 3D art and global media, land-use and access, environmentalism. A2 Unit 4: Conflict-Resolution Public understanding of science, sustainability, politics and social contract, equal opportunities, decoding arts and media, industrial relations and personal finance, rights and responsibilities. A2 Unit 5: Power-Resolution Science-use and abuse, political and legal accountability, artistic standards and media ownership, consumerism and free trade, changing norms and values. A2 Unit 6: Space-Time Space Research, measurement, the idea of progress, cultural diversity, social change and reform, new arts, new media, music and literature, heritage, tourism, new patterns of working, history, culture and secularism.