World History AP
Course Description
This course is a college level course that is offered to high school students through the College Board's Advanced Placement Program, designed to help students develop a greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts as well as interactions between different types of human society. The course advances this understanding through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills. Students study all prehistory and history, especially from 8000 BCE to present-day. Students who score passing grades on the AP World History exam in May, can earn college credit. Each individual university's idea of passing varies from a score of 3 to 5. Here is a website you can use to research individual university's scoring criteria:
WHAP is considered the hardest of the AP history classes simply because of its sheer scope and sequence. We study the entire history of the human species throughout the entire globe... That's over 11,000 years! So, you now have bragging rights over those juniors and seniors. That being said, it is a college level class. You will not be successful if you are not doing the assigned reading each and every night for homework. In order to cover 11,000 years of global history effectively, we must read the textbook for homework every night. Please understand this is a necessary part of what is expected at the college level. Please know Assignments #1 and #2 of the Summer Reading Assignment are mandatory.
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