Course Syllabus
Wappingers Central School District
Social Studies Department
Course Syllabus
|Course Name |ADVANCED PLACEMENT WORLD HISTORY I |
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|Course Code |D377 |
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|Duration |Full Year |
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|Grade |9 |
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|Credit |1.0 |
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|Rank |1.04 |
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|Prerequisite |1. Completion of Grade 8 Honors Social Studies with a final average of at least 90% or Grade 8 Regular Social Studies |
| |with a final average of at least 95%; and 2. Recommendation of the previous year’s Social Studies teacher. |
| |Note: This course replaces Global History and Geography I. This is a college-level course. It is academically |
| |demanding and requires a significant commitment on the part of the student. |
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|Assessment |For Advanced Placement World History I, a Department final exam based on the content, concepts and themes in this |
| |curriculum and modeled after the World History Advanced Placement exam will be administered in June. The final exam |
| |counts as 20% of the final course average. Students must pass this course in order to graduate. |
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|Textbook |World Civilizations: The Global Experience, 3rd Edition (Pearson Longman, 2003) |
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|Areas of Study |Advanced Placement World History I/II is a two-year Advanced Placement program (grades 9 and 10). The Advanced |
| |Placement Program offers a course and exam in World History to qualified students who wish to complete studies in |
| |secondary school equivalent to an introductory college course in world history. The purpose of this course is to |
| |develop greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts in interaction with different human |
| |societies. This understanding is advanced through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate |
| |analytical skills. The course highlights the nature of changes in international frameworks and their causes and |
| |consequences, as well as comparisons among major societies. It emphasizes relevant factual knowledge used in |
| |conjunction with leading interpretive issues and types of historical evidence. |
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| |Foundations – 8000 BCE – 600 CE |
| |Global Geography, Migration |
| |Locating world history in environment and time |
| |Developing agriculture and technology |
| |Features of Civilizations - Mesopotamia, Egypt, Indus Valley, Huang He Valley, Mesoamerica, Andean |
| |Classical Civilizations – Greece, Rome, China, India |
| |Major Belief Systems – Polytheism/Monotheism, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Christianity, Confucianism, Daoism, Animism |
| |Empires/Collapses – Rome, Han, Gupta |
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| |600 CE – 1450 CE |
| |Periodization |
| |The Islamic World |
| |Interregional networks, contacts, trade routes |
| |China’s internal/external expansion |
| |Developments in Europe |
| |Social, cultural, economic, and political patterns in the Amerindian world – Maya, Aztec, Inca |
| |Demographic and environmental changes |
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| |1450 CE – 1750 CE |
| |Periodization |
| |Changes in trade, technology, gender, and global interactions |
| |Knowledge of empires, political units, and social systems – Ottoman, Mughal, Safavid, England, France, Russia, |
| |Portugal, China, Spain, Kongo, Songhay |
| |Slave systems, and slave trade |
| |Demographic change – Global exploration, trade, diseases |
| |Cultural and intellectual developments – Scientific Revolution, Enlightenment, Renaissance, Reformation, Absolutism. |
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|For Information |For more information about the Advanced Placement curriculum, see |
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| |For a complete review of the NYS Social Studies Learning Standards, see |
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| |For the complete NYS core curriculum for Global History and Geography, see |
| | (pp. 89-120) |
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