NOTE: This course is best suited for students with already well-developed critical reading, writing, and study skills. Students should be prepared to do 75 minutes of reading and note-taking homework per class period, depending on their reading speed.

This challenging college-level course is structured around the investigation of six themes covering four distinct chronological periods from 1200 to 2001 and all regions of the world. History is a sophisticated quest for meaning about the past. This course will continue to deal with the facts – names, chronology, and events – while also emphasizing historical analysis. You will enhance your ability to read critically, write analytically, and think deeply about developments and processes, sourcing and citation, evidence in sources, contextualization, making connections across time and space, and historical argumentation. While the goal of any Advanced Placement course is, at one level, to prepare for the national exam, AP World History: Modern primarily seeks to prepare the student to live and work in the global economy in the 21st century.