• Discussion and Presentation: It allows students to work together and learn from each other. Students learn through having to present their thoughts and views to others, seeing how the others react to their presentation and having to listen to others' viewpoints which challenge their own.
• Using Information Technology: Internet provides access to libraries, museums and history experts around the world. Students have to tell whether the information in a website contains is reliable or biased which is an important skill in studying history.
• Reading: Reading enhances students' understanding of the topics being studied, and help them to learn to respect different points of view, make sound judgments from different interpretations.
• Preparation and Practice: Preparation assignments help students get ready for activities that will occur in the classroom while practice assignments reinforce newly acquired skills.
• Extension Assignments (include include a mini project and assignment): Students are given chances to learn on their own. They develop a range of skills which can foster critical thinking, the making of sound judgments, creativity and effective communication.
• Career and life development: Activities related to the subject are organized to link learning in the classroom to the community and broaden students' horizon.

• International Conflicts and crises in the 20th century
  • - The two world wars
  • - The Cold War and the post-Cold War period
• The growth and transformation of Hong Kong in the 20th century
• International cooperation since the 20th century (Project-based learning)

• Introduction: The Making of the Modern World
• Theme A: Modernisation and Transformation in Twentieth-Century Asia
  • Modernisation and transformation of Hong Kong
    • Political and institutional changes
    • Development as an international city
  • Modernisation and transformation of China
    • Early attempts at modernization - reforms and revolutions
    • Socialist modernization in the Maoist period and the evolution of "socialism with Chinese characteristics" in the post-Mao period
  • Modernisation and transformation of Japan and Southeast Asia
    • Japan
    • Southeast Asia: from colonies to independent countries
• Theme B: Conflicts and Cooperation in the Twentieth-Century World
  • Major conflicts and the quest for peace
    • International relations from 1900 to 1914
    • The two world wars and the peace settlements
    • Major conflicts after WWII and attempts to make peace
  • The quest for cooperation and prosperity
    • International Economic Cooperation
    • International Social and Cultural Cooperation