AP Social studies

1572 AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY         Weighted 0.50

1 SEMESTER         1 CREDIT 

Grades 9, 10, 11, 12

Prerequisite:  None.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: 

AP Human Geography is a course based on the content established and copyrighted by the College Board. The course is not intended to be used as a dual credit course. The AP Human Geography course is equivalent to an introductory college-level course in human geography. The course introduces students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth’s surface. Students employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine socioeconomic organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their research and applications. The curriculum reflects the goals of the National Geography Standards (2012). Topics include: Geography-Nature and Perspectives, Population and Migration, Cultural Patterns and Processes, Political Organization of Space, Agriculture, Food Production, and Rural Land Use, Industrialization and Economic Development, and Cities and Urban Land Use.

Students will be expected to take the AP Human Geography Exam in May. Students absent on the day of the exam are responsible for the unused test fee of approximately $15.00.              

• Counts as an Elective for all diplomas

AP MACROECONOMICS   ADVANCED PLACEMENT Weighted 0.50

1 SEMESTER         1 CREDIT 

Grades 11, 12

Prerequisite:  None.

COURSE DESCRIPTION: Macroeconomics, Advanced Placement is a course based on the content established by the College Board. The course places particular emphasis on the study of national income and price-­level determinations, and also develops students’ familiarity with economic performance measures, the financial sector, stabilization policies, economic growth, and international economics. Topics include: (1) Basic economic concepts, (2) measurement of economic performance, (3) national income and price determination, (4) economic growth, and (5) international finance, exchange rates, and balance of payments.

Students will be expected to take the AP Macroeconomics Exam in May. Students absent on the day of the exam are responsible for the unused test fee of approximately $15.00.               

*A Core 40, AHD and QR course

AP MICROECONOMICS    ADVANCED PLACEMENT   Weighted 0.50                            

1 SEMESTER         1 CREDIT 

Grades 11-12 

Prerequisites: AP Macroeconomics             COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is an introductory college-level course that focuses on the principles of economics that apply to the functions of individual economic decision makers. The course also develops students’ familiarity with the operation of product and factor markets, distributions of income, market failure, and the role of government in promoting greater efficiency and equity in the economy. Students learn to use graphs, charts, and data to analyze, describe, and explain economic concepts. Topics include: Basic Economic Concepts; The Nature and Functions of Product Markets: Factor Markets: and Market Failure and the Role of Government. 

Students will be expected to take the AP Microeconomics Exam in May. Students absent on the day of the exam are responsible for the unused test fee of approximately $15.00 

*A Core 40, AHD and QR course                     

AP UNITED STATES HISTORY   ADVANCED PLACEMENT   Weighted 0.50

2 SEMESTERS       2 CREDIT 

Grades 10, 11 

Prerequisite:  None.

COURSE DESCRIPTION:  The AP program in United States history is designed to provide students with the analytical skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials in United States 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 will develop skills necessary to arrive at conclusions on the basis of an informed judgment and to present reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in an essay format.  Students will be expected to take the AP US History Exam in May. Students absent on the day of the exam are responsible for the unused test fee of approximately $15.00. 

AP WORLD HISTORY MODERN 1612   ADVANCED PLACEMENT      Weighted 0.50                               

2 SEMESTERS   2 CREDITS  

Grades 9, 10, 11, 12 

Prerequisite: None.                                   

COURSE DESCRIPTION:  AP World History Modern is designed to be the equivalent of a two semester introductory college or university world history course. According to the College Board AP World History Modern students “investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in historical periods from approximately 1200 CE to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; making historical comparisons; utilizing reasoning about contextualization, causation, and continuity and change over time; and developing historical arguments. The course provides five themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: interaction between humans and the environment; development and interaction of cultures; state building, expansion, and conflict; creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems; and development and transformation of social structures. Students will be expected to take the AP World History Modern Exam in May. Students absent on the day of the exam are responsible for the unused test fee of approximately $15.00.