AP United States History

Credits: 1 -- 2 terms

Prerequisites: World History or AP European History and placement by Division Coordinator

Level: Junior required

Course Description:

The AP U.S. History course is designed to provide students with the analytic skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in U.S. history. The program prepares students for intermediate and advanced college courses by making demands upon them equivalent to those made by full-year introductory college courses. Students should learn to assess historical materials—their relevance to a given interpretive problem, reliability, and importance—and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. An AP U.S. History course should thus develop the skills necessary to arrive at conclusions on the basis of an informed judgment and to present reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in essay format. AP United States History is intended to help prepare students to successfully take the Advanced Placement History Exam which may possibly earn students college credit.