| Grade Range: |
| | 10–11 |
| Prerequisites: |
| | Successful completion of a grade 9 history–social studies course (e.g., Modern World History and Geography 1,2 or Global Political and Economic Decisions 1,2) and/or counselor and teacher recommendation |
| Course duration: |
| | Two-semesters |
| Subject area in which graduation credit will be given: |
| | World History, weighted |
| UC subject area satisfied: |
| | a - History |
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| Course Description: |
| | 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. |
| State Course Code(s): |
| | 9191 - Advanced Placement (AP) World History |
| Basic Texts and Teaching Guides: |
| | Bulliet, The Earth and Its Peoples: A Global History, 4th ed., McDougal Littell, 2008. |