Advanced Placement World History
Advanced Placement World History is offered to the serious student who desires the challenge of a collegelevel course in high school. The course covers world history from the dawn of man to the present and emphasizes the analysis of events and eras. Extensive reading and writing is required. Students are expected to take the Advanced Placement History Examination in May. All students, regardless of whether they take the Advanced Placement exam will take the World History II Standards of Learning test. College credit may be granted, subject to the requirements of the college or university. Introduction to World History In order to deepen the knowledge and understanding of people and events, as well as providing insight into the work of practicing historians, students will be required to maintain an “historian’s journal”. Entries in this journal will focus on the processes and issues of historical research. Specific questions for each reading will guide journal responses. The first assignment serves as an introduction to the historian’s craft. How do historians select, analyze, and reconstruct evidence? What problems do they encounter; and how do they seek to resolve those problems? These questions are evident in the Themes, Key Concepts and Historical Thinking Skills promoted by AP World History. Themes in Advanced Placement World History (CR2) AP World History highlights five overarching themes that should receive approximately equal attention throughout the course: 1. Interaction between Humans and the Environment 2. Development and Interaction of Cultures 3. State Building, Expansion and Conflict 4. Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems 5. Development and Transformation of Social Structures Key Concepts (CR3) 1.1 Big Geography / Peopling of the Earth 1.2 Neolithic Revolution and Early Agricultural Society 1.3 Development and Interactions of Early Agricultural, Pastoral, Urban Societies 2.1 Development and Codification of Religious and Cultural Traditions 2.2 Development of States and Empires 2.3 Emergence of Transregional Networks of Communication and Exchange 3.1 Expansion and Intensification of Communication and Exchange Networks 3.2 Continuity and Innovation of State Forms and Their Interactions 3.3 Increased Economic Productive Capacity and Its Consequences 4.1 Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange 4.2 New Forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production 4.3 State Consolidation of Imperial Expansion 5.1 Industrialization and Global Capitalism 5.2 Imperialism and Nation State Formation 5.3 Nationalism, Revolution and Reform 5.4 Global Migration 6.1 Science and Environment 6.2 Global Conflict and Consequences 6.3 New Conceptionalization of Global Economics, Society, and Culture
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AP World History Syllabus