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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