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WAPPINGERS CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT Social Studies Department Course Syllabus Course Name ADVANCED PLACEMENT WORLD HISTORY I Course Code D377 Duration Full Year Grade 9 Credit 1.0 Rank 1.04 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 collegelevel course. It is academically demanding and requires a significant commitment on the part of the student. 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. Textbook World Civilizations: The Global Experience, 3rd Edition (Pearson Longman, 2003) 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. -1- I. 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 II. 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 III. 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. For Information For more information about the Advanced Placement curriculum, see http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/courses/teachers_corner/4484.html For a complete review of the NYS Social Studies Learning Standards, see http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/pub/sslearn.pdf For the complete NYS core curriculum for Global History and Geography, see http://www.emsc.nysed.gov/ciai/socst/pub/sscore2.pdf (pp. 89-120) -2-