sophomore level classes
World History
AP & GT world history
402110 World History
Prerequisite: World Geography (all levels)
Credit: 1
World History is a two-semester core course for 10th-grade students. This course is the study of the cultural, economic, political, and social developments that have shaped the world from c. 1200 CE to the present. Each unit includes general characteristics of a period a detailed analysis of one or two sample cultures and a mapping of associated geographical features.
402130 AP World History
Prerequisite: none.
Previous Honors/AP level class experience is highly recommended
Credit: 1
AP World History is a two-semester core course for 10th-grade students. The purpose of the AP World History course is to develop a 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 consistent attention to contacts among societies that form the core of world history as a field of study.
Students who obtain a qualifying score on the AP exam may receive college/university credit, advanced placement, or both.
Students who take this course are eligible for a 15-point “bump” in their GPA.
402135 GT AP World History
Prerequisite: GT Identification
Previous Honors/AP level class experience is highly recommended
Credit: 1
GT AP World History is a two-semester core course for 10th-grade students. The purpose of the GT AP World History course is to develop a 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 consistent attention to contacts among societies that form the core of world history as a field of study.
Students who obtain a qualifying score on the AP exam may receive college/university credit, advanced placement, or both.
Students who take this course are eligible for a 15-point “bump” in their GPA.