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Ap world history course overview
Course: World History (Asian Perspectives) Since 1800 (HIST 106)
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AP® WORLD HISTORY
About the Advanced Placement Program® (AP®)
The Advanced Placement Program® has enabled millions of students to take college-level courses and earn college credit, advanced
placement, or both, while still in high school. AP Exams are given each year in May. Students who earn a qualifying score on an AP Exam are
typically eligible, in college, to receive credit, placement into advanced courses, or both. Every aspect of AP course and exam development
is the result of collaboration between AP teachers and college faculty. They work together to develop AP courses and exams, set scoring
standards, and score the exams. College faculty review every AP teacher’s course syllabus.
AP History Program
The AP Program offers three history courses: AP European History,
AP United States History, and AP World History. All three history
courses focus on helping students develop historical thinking
while learning required course content. Course themes foster deep
analysis by making connections and comparisons across different
topics.
AP World History Course Overview
AP World History is designed to be the equivalent of a two-
semester introductory college or university world history
course. In AP World History students investigate significant
events, individuals, developments, and processes in six historical
periods from approximately 8000 B.C.E. 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
comparisons; and utilizing reasoning about contextualization,
causation, and continuity and change over time. 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.
PREREQUISITES
There are no prerequisites for the AP World History course.
Students should be able to read a college-level textbook and write
grammatically correct, complete sentences.
AP World History Course Content
The AP World History course is structured around themes and
concepts in six different chronological periods from approximately
8000 BCE to the present:
• Technological and Environmental Transformations (to c. 600 BCE)
• Organization and Reorganization of Human Societies (c. 600 BCE
to c. 600 CE)
• Regional and Transregional Interactions (c. 600 CE to c. 1450)
• Global Interactions (c. 1450 to c. 1750)
• Industrialization and Global Integration (c. 1750 to c. 1900)
• Accelerating Global Change and Realignments (c. 1900 to the
Present)
Within each period, key concepts organize and prioritize historical
developments. Themes allow students to make connections and
identify patterns and trends over time.
AP History Disciplinary Practices and Reasoning Skills
The AP history courses seek to apprentice students to the practice
of history by emphasizing the development of disciplinary practices
and reasoning skills while learning historical content. The practices
and skills that students should develop in all AP history courses are
listed below, along with a condensed description of what students
should be able to do with each. Every AP Exam question will assess
one or more of these practices and skills.
AP HISTORY DISCIPLINARY PRACTICES
Practice 1: Analyzing Historical Evidence
Primary Sources
• Explain the relative historical significance of a source’s point of
view, purpose, historical situation, and/or audience.
• Evaluate a source’s credibility and/or limitations.
Secondary Sources
• Explain how a historian’s claim or argument is supported with
evidence.
• Analyze patterns and trends in quantitative data in non-text-
based sources.
• Evaluate the effectiveness of a historical claim or argument.
Practice 2: Argument Development
• Make a historically defensible claim in the form of an evaluative
thesis.
• Support an argument using specific and relevant evidence.
• Use historical reasoning to explain relationships among pieces
of historical evidence.
• Consider ways that diverse or alternative evidence could be
used to qualify or modify an argument.
AP HISTORY REASONING SKILLS
Skill 1: Contextualization
• Use context to explain the relative historical significance of a
specific historical development or process.
Skill 2: Comparison
• Explain the relative historical significance of similarities and/
or differences between different historical developments or
processes.
Skill 3: Causation
• Explain the difference between primary and secondary causes
and between short- and long-term effects.
• Explain the relative historical significance of different causes
and/or effects.
Skill 4: Continuity and Change Over Time
• Explain the relative historical significance of specific historical
developments in relation to a larger pattern of continuity and/or
change.