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SOCIAL STUDIES AP COURSE OFFERINGS

ACADEMIC CORE AP SOCIAL STUDIES OPTIONS
AP WORLD HISTORY - 10TH GRADE

Description: The focus of AP World History is to develop a greater understanding of the evolution of
global processes and contacts, in interaction with different types of human societies. The course
highlights the nature of changes in international frameworks and their causes and consequences, as well
as comparisons among major societies.

Skills for Success: Students must have a high level of reading comprehension, be comfortable analyzing
documents, and be a skilled essay writer.

Academic Suitability: There are no prerequisites for AP World History except a love history. However,
students who have taken AP Human Geography or Honors Geography in previous years have expressed
possessing a higher comfort level with the content and rigor of the course. Students who currently have
no social studies class can seek a recommendation from their language arts teacher.

Out of Class Commitments: Students are expected to read 8-10 pages of the textbook each night as well
as study notes (45 min). Furthermore, students will be assigned scholarly articles, lecture notes, historical
skills practice, eClass assessments, and/or reading questions in addition to reading and studying some
evenings.

Summer Work: None

AP World History can be taken in place of World History (a 10th-grade graduation requirement).