AP World History (Period 5)

AP World History is an intensive and rigorous course of study of World history from 8000 BCE  to the present.  Students will grasp historical concepts and patterns across a huge breath of time and space, and the course will enable students to take and be prepared for the AP Exam in May.  The class will motivate students to pay particular attention to a broad spectrum beyond political and military events, including significant emphasis on social, economic, religious, technological and cultural history.  The course will encourage students to think analytically and comparatively through the inclusion of primary sources, as well as additional documents and texts.  It is designed to enable students to see the world today in the light of past history of each major geographical region and therefore to understand the problems of today from a complimentary and opposing perspectives.