AP European History

The AP European History course focuses on developing students’ understanding of European history from approximately 1450 to the present. The course has students investigate the content of European history for significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in four historical periods, and develop and use the same thinking skills and methods (analyzing primary and secondary sources, making historical comparison, chronological reasoning, and argumentation) employed by historians when they study the past. The course also provided five themes (interaction of Europe and the world, poverty and prosperity, objective knowledge and subjective visions, states and other institutions of power, and individual and society) that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places.

Advanced Placement courses provide students the opportunity to earn college credit through the successful completion of the course and a qualifying score on the AP exam.

Duration: Full Year

Pre-requisites: None

Credits: 1.0 (1.0 Social Studies credit; college credit may be available) (This class may also be available for college credit through the Edmonds Community College, College in the High School program)

Grade Level: 12