AP WORLD HISTORY: MODERN
About AP World History: Modern
In AP World History: Modern, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes from 1200 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change over time.
The course provides six themes that students explore throughout the course in order 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.
Skills You'll Learn
Evaluating primary and secondary sources
Analyzing the claims, evidence, and reasoning you find in sources
Putting historical developments in context and making connections between them
Coming up with a claim or thesis and explaining and supporting it in writing
Prerequisites
Grade 10 or older
College Course Equivalent
AP World History: Modern is designed to be the equivalent of an introductory college or university survey of modern world history.
Summer Homework
Textbook & Vocabulary Assignments
Expectations
Pick up textbook before year is over and bring completed assignments on first day of school.
Teacher Corner
Contact Information
Teacher - Eric Reichert (Room C24)
AP Coordinator - Dave Haluga
College/Career Counselor - Liz Emmons