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AP World History Overview: Program: AP World History is offered as an elective course to qualified students. Those enrolled in the course are expected to take the AP Examination. Course Design: The yearlong AP World History course emphasizes non-Western history, tracing human development from the emergence of cities to the present. The course focuses on analytical and writing skills necessary for success in a college-level history course. Considerable time is devoted to the use and analysis of primary and secondary source documents, class discussions and debates, short essays, objective exams, and document-based questions (DBQ). We will use the following A.P. World History themes throughout the course to identify the broad patterns that explain change and continuity over time. Course Themes: Theme 1: Interaction Between Humans and the Environment Theme 2: Development and Interaction of Cultures Theme 3: State-Building, Expansion, and Conflict Theme 4: Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems Theme 5: Development and Transformation of Social Structures Change Analysis Chart/Periodization Analysis: At the end of each time period of study, students use the five themes to analyze how each has changed over the past time period or unit of study. They chart characteristics of each theme at the beginning and end of each era, and then analyze continuities and changes within each theme. Finally, students write a response regarding why they think historians consider these dates a unique period of time, using multiple historians’ arguments about why a period is unique, or by explaining how a region’s events do not fit into the periods historians have chosen. (Component 11). As the year progresses, students will add to their analysis why each previous period now seems even more unique, and how each theme has continued to change or stay the same across time periods. Texts: The Earth and Its Peoples, by Richard Bulliet, et. al., Boston: