AP World History
Select from the drop down menu above to find the AP World Units, Calendar, Syllabus and Resources. Below you will find information related to the course content and structure as designed by the AP College Board
About the AP World History: Modern Course
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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.
College Course Equivalent
AP World History: Modern is designed to be the equivalent of an introductory college or university survey of modern world history
Prerequisites
There are no prerequisites for AP World History: Modern. Students should be able to read a college-level textbook and write grammatically correct, complete sentences.
AP World At A Glance.pdfHistorical Thinking, Reasoning and Processing Skills
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The AP historical thinking skills describe what students should be able to do while exploring course concepts. The table that follows presents these skills, which students should develop during the AP World History course. The unit guides later in this publication embed and spiral these skills throughout the course, providing teachers with one way to integrate the skills into the course content with sufficient repetition to prepare students to transfer those skills when taking the AP Exam.
