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Social Studies
AP European History AP Psychology
Grades 11-12 Grades 11-12
Course Number 279 Course Number 278
Full Year Course - 1 credit Full Year Course – 1 credit
Prerequisite: Recommendation Prerequisite: Recommendation
Estimated Fee: $22.00 and A.P. Test Registration Estimated Fee: $22.00 and AP Test Registration
Recommended For: College Bound Recommended For: College Bound
Career: A,P Career: A, B, H, P
With recommendations from and the With recommendations from and the
approval of the College Board, the Advanced approval of the College Board, the Advanced
Placement European History course work Placement Psychology course work models a
models a semester college course in first semester college course in Psychology.
European History. This course follows guidelines set by the
As the name implies, this course centers on The AP Psychology course is designed to
European history and concentrates on the introduce students to the systematic and
time period from 1450 to the present. scientific study of the behavior and mental
Emphasis is placed on different processes of human beings and other
interpretations of European history and animals. Students are exposed to the
development of skills in working with psychological facts, principles, and
statistical data, charts, graphs, maps, phenomena associated with each of the
documents, and pictorial evidence of major subfields within psychology. Topics
historical events. Students will improve include the biological basis of behavior,
skills in essay composition assessment of sensation and perception, altered states of
historical materials—their relevance, consciousness, learning and memory, testing
reliability and importance—as well as and intelligence, motivation and emotions,
develop an awareness of the developmental psychology, personality
interrelationship between social, economic, theories, abnormal behavior and social
political and international events in psychology.
European history. Students enrolled in this
course are required to take the A.P. exam in
May.
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