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Explore the history of art across the globe from prehistory to the present. You’ll analyze works of art through observation, discussion, reading, and research.
Open to grades: 11-12
Unit 1: Global Prehistory, 30,000–500 BCE
Unit 2: Ancient Mediterranean, 3500 BCE–300 CE
Unit 3: Early Europe and Colonial Americas, 200–1750 CE
Unit 4: Later Europe and Americas, 1750–1980 CE
Unit 5: Indigenous Americas, 1000 BCE–1980 CE
Unit 6: Africa, 1100–1980 CE
Unit 7: West and Central Asia, 500 BCE–1980 CE
Unit 8: South, East, and Southeast Asia, 300 BCE–1980 CE
Unit 9: The Pacific, 700-1980 CE
Unit 10: Global Contemporary, 1980 CE to Present
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College Course Equivalent: a two-semester introductory art history course
Exam Date: Thurs, May 15, 2024 8 AM Local
Exam Duration: 3 hours
Exam Format: Multiple Choice & Free Response (long and short essays)
Schedule: A/B schedule (every other day)
Credit Earned: 1 Fine Arts credit earned at the end of the year
AP Drawing is an introductory college-level drawing course where students refine and apply drawing skills to ideas they develop throughout the course.
In AP Drawing, you’ll use the skills you learn in the course, and your own ideas, to create unique works of art. Throughout the course, you’ll develop an inquiry that guides art making through practice, experimentation, and revision of materials, processes, and ideas while demonstrating drawing skills through painting, drawing, sequential art, printmaking, illustration, animation, fibers, and others.
Students will submit an AP Art and Design portfolio that consists of two sections: Sustained Investigation and Selected Works.
Open to grades: 11-12
Big Idea 1: Investigate materials, processes, and ideas
Big Idea 2: Make art and design
Big Idea 3: Present art and design
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College Course Equivalent: a one-semester introductory drawing course
Portfolio Submission Date: Fri, May 9, 2025 8 PM ET
*2026 date TBD
Schedule: A/B schedule (every other day)
Credit Earned: 1 Fine Arts credit earned at the end of the year