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Social Studies
historical evidence. This course is AP World History
recommended for all students planning to Grade 10
enroll in future Social Studies Advanced Course Number 249
Placement offerings. Emphasis on the skills Full Year Course - 1 credit
and knowledge needed to pass the end of Prerequisite: Recommendation
course exam will also be a major focus of the Estimated Fee: $22.00 and A.P. Test Registration
course. Recommended For: College Bound
Career: CORE
The curriculum in these courses will be With recommendations from and the
combined to draw natural connections approval of the College Board, the Advanced
throughout the year. Placement World History course work
models a semester college course in World
World History History.
Grade 10 It is a course that fulfills the World History
Course Number 241 credit requirement required by the State of
Full Year Course - 1 credit Ohio for graduation. The purpose of the AP
Prerequisite: None World History course is to develop greater
Estimated Fee: $11.00
Recommended For: College Bound/Technical understanding of the evolution of global
Education processes and contacts in different types of
Career: CORE human societies. This understanding is
advanced through a combination of factual
This course examines world events from 1600 knowledge and analytical skills. The course
to the present. It explores the impact of the highlights the nature of changes in global
democratic and industrial revolutions, the frameworks and their causes and
forces that led to world domination by consequences, as well as comparisons
European powers, the wars that changed among major societies. It emphasizes
empires, the ideas that led to independence relevant factual knowledge, leading
movements and the effects of global interpretive issues, and skills in analyzing
interdependence. Focus is placed on Western types of historical evidence. Specific themes
civilization with an emphasis on cultural, provide further organization to the course,
philosophical, artistic, economic, social and along with consistent attention to contacts
political growth. The last nine weeks detail the among societies that form the core of world
world since 1945, the role of the U.S., the end history as a field of study. Students enrolled
of the USSR, and the North-South economic
confrontations. The concepts of historical in this course are required to take the A.P.
thinking introduced in earlier grades continue exam in May.
to build with students locating and analyzing
primary and secondary sources from multiple This course is recommended for students
perspectives to draw conclusions. planning on taking AP United States
History, AP European History, and AP
United States Government and Politics.
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