AP US History

Term: Year

Prerequisites: None (See note below)

Credit: 1

Fee: Cost of AP Exam

Grade: 10, 11, 12

AP U.S. History designed to be the equivalent of a two-semester introductory college or university U.S. History course.

In AP U.S. History, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in nine historical

periods from approximately 1491 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

comparisons; and utilizing reasoning about contextualization, causation, and continuity and change over time. The

course also provides seven themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among

historical developments in different times and places: American and national identity; migration and settlement; politics

and power; work, exchange, and technology; America in the world; geography and the environment; and culture and

society.

Note: Students should be able to read a college-level textbook and write grammatically correct, complete sentences.