Prerequisites: Must be taken concurrently with English 9 Honors or English 10 Honors

Cost: $95

AP World History Modern is designed to be the equivalent of a two- semester introductory college or university world history course. According to the College Board AP World History Modern students “investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in historical periods from approximately 1200 CE to the present. Students develop and use the same skills, practices, and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; making historical comparisons; utilizing reasoning about contextualization, causation, and continuity and change over time; and developing historical arguments. The course provides five themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: interaction between humans and the environment; development and interaction of cultures; state building, expansion, and conflict; creation, expansion, and interaction of economic systems; and development and transformation of social structures. Students are required to take the College Board AP World History Modern exam in May.