AP World History: Modern 

Course Description

This college-level course is designed to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the changes in global processes, human societies, and their interactions throughout time. It focuses on the nature of changes and their consequences in international frameworks as well as comparisons among major societies. Although focused primarily on the past thousand years of global experience, the course builds on an understanding of cultural, institutional, and technological precedents that, along with geography, set the human stage. 

In AP World History: Modern, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes from about 1200 to the present. The course provides six themes that students explore throughout the course to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: humans and the environment, cultural developments and interactions, governance, economic systems, social interactions and organization, and technology and innovation.