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402110 World History
Prerequisite: World Geography, Honors World Geography or AP Human Geography Credit: 1
This course is the study of the historical development of mankind from ancient civilization on to the 20th century. Each unit includes general characteristics of a me period and a detailed analysis of one or two sample cultures and mapping of associated geographical features.
402120 Honors World History
Prerequisite: World Geography, Honors World Geography or AP Human Geography Credit: 1
This course is the study of the historical development of mankind from ancient civilization on to the 20th century. Each unit includes general characteristics of a me period and a detailed analysis of one or two sample cultures and mapping of associated geographical features. This course is designed to help students develop and further content-specific writing sills to further prepare for AP coursework.
402130 AP World History
Prerequisite: World Geography or AP Human Geography Credit: 1
The purpose of the AP World History course is to develop greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts, in interaction with different types of human societies. This understanding is advanced through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills. The course highlights the nature of changes in international frameworks and their causes and consequences, as well as comparisons among major societies. The course emphasizes relevant factual knowledge deployed in conjunction with leading interpretive issues and types of historical evidence. The course builds on an understanding of cultural, institutional, and technological precedents that, along with geography, set the human stage. Periodization, explicitly discussed, forms an organizing principle for dealing with change and continuity throughout the course. Specific themes provide further organization to the course, along with the consistent attention to contacts among societies that form the core of world history as a field of study.
402135 GT AP World History
Prerequisite: World Geography or AP Human Geography & GT Identification Credit: 1
The purpose of the AP World History course is to develop greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts, in interaction with different types of human societies. This understanding is advanced through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills. The course highlights the nature of changes in international frameworks and their causes and consequences, as well as comparisons among major societies. The course emphasizes relevant factual knowledge deployed in conjunction with leading interpretive issues and types of historical evidence. The course builds on an understanding of cultural, institutional, and technological precedents that, along with geography, set the human stage. Periodization, explicitly discussed, forms an organizing principle for dealing with change and continuity throughout the course. Specific themes provide further organization to the course, along with the consistent attention to contacts among societies that form the core of world history as a field of study.
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