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. 



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.