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SYLLABUS
Centennial High School
2016-17
Course #: 5230 and 5232
Course Name: AP World History 1 and 2
Semester 1
Semester 2
Prerequisite: See Course Guide
Teacher Name: Leonore Heino/Eric Ripken
Room Number: E317/E315 Phone #: Heino
(763-792-5267), Ripken (763-792 -5266)
E-Mail: [email protected], [email protected]
Credit Earned: 1
Course Description:
Advanced Placement World History is equivalent to an introductory college survey course. The course has a
three-fold purpose. First, it is designed to prepare students for successful placement into higher-level college and
university history courses. Second, it is designed to develop skills of analysis and thinking in order to prepare
students for success in our ever changing world. Finally, it is the intent of this class to make the learning of world
history an enjoyable and enlightening experience. Students will be able to show their mastery of the course goals
by taking part in the College Board AP World History Exam on May 11th, 2017.
Course Objective:
Advanced Placement World History is structured around the investigation of five themes woven into 19 key
concepts covering six distinct chronological periods. History is a sophisticated quest for meaning about the past,
beyond the effort to collect and memorize information. This course will continue to deal with the facts –names,
chronology, events, and the like but it will also emphasize historical analysis. This will be accomplished by
focusing on four historical thinking skills: crafting historical arguments from historical evidence, chronological
reasoning, comparison and contextualization, and historical interpretation and synthesis.
World history requires the development of thinking skills using the processes and tools that historians employ in
order to create the historical narrative. Students will also be required to think on many different geographical and
temporal scales in order to compare historical events over time and space.
This course relies heavily on college-level resources. This includes texts, a wide variety of primary sources, and
interpretations presented in historical scholarship. These resources are designed to develop the skills required to
analyze point of view and to interpret evidence to use in creating plausible historical arguments. These tools will
also be used to assess issues of change and continuity over time, identifying global processes, comparing within
and among societies, and understanding diverse interpretations.
Students will be required to participate in class discussions and prepare class presentations in order to further
develop higher level habits of mind or thinking skills and broaden content knowledge. No more than 20% of the
course time is devoted to European history. The course is designed to be rigorous and rewarding, and will allow
students to take a global view on the historical processes and contact between people in different societies.
The five AP World History Themes that connect the key concepts throughout the course and serve as the
foundation for student reading, writing, and presentations requirements are as follows:
Theme 1: Interaction Between Humans and the Environment: Demography and disease, Migration,
Patterns of settlement, Technology
Theme 2: Development and Interaction of Cultures: Religions, Belief systems, philosophies and
ideologies, Science and technology, The arts and architecture
Theme 3: State-building, Expansion, and Conflict: Political structures and forms of governance,
Empires, Nations and nationalism, Revolts and revolutions, Regional, trans-regional, and global
structures and organizations
Theme 4: Creation, Expansion, and Interaction of Economic Systems: Agricultural and pastoral
production, Trade and commerce, Labor systems, Industrialization, Capitalism and Socialism
Theme 5: Development and Transformation of Social Structures: Gender roles and relations, Family
kinship, Racial and ethnic constructions, Social and economic classes
Course Expectations:
Our goal is to introduce you to several of the most important documents in the history of the world as well as to
several of the most prominent historians past and present, who have shaped our knowledge of the world. This
course will be an ongoing quest to decipher, define, and debate history. That’s why it is so much fun!
Our primary text: Strayer, Robert W. Ways of the World: A Global History. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2009.
A variety of other readings and resources are utilized throughout the course, including multiple primary source
documents.
Course Schedule:
Unit One: The Neolithic Revolution to 600 BCE (Congratulations! You have read these chapters! We will
highlight key points in class, and then move on to Chapter 4.)
Key Concepts:
Big Geography and the Peopling of the Earth
Neolithic Revolution and Early Agricultural Societies
Development and Interactions of Early Agricultural, Pastoral, and Urban Societies
Topics for Overview:
Civilizations, Early Sumer, Mesopotamia, Egypt and Nile River Civilizations, Indus River and Yellow
River, the Americas, sub Saharan Africa, Papua New Guinea
Strayer, (Chapters 2 and 3)
Unit Two: The Classical Period, 600 BCE to 600 CE (5 weeks)
Key Concepts:
Development and Codification of Religious and Cultural Traditions
Development of States and Empires
Emergence of Transregional Networks of Communication and Exchange
Topics for Overview:
Similar trends in Roman, Han, and Gupta Empires,
Contacts among major population centers
Catalyst for changes in Political, Economic and Communication Structures
Role of women and slaves
(Strayer, Chapters 4-7)
Unit Three: The Post Classical Period, 600 CE to 1450 CE (8 weeks)
Key Concepts:
Expansion and Intensification of Communication and Exchange Networks
Continuity and Innovation of State Forms and Their Interactions
Increased Economic Productive Capacity and Its Consequences
Topics for Overview:
The Rise and Spread of Islam (Including India, Indonesia and Africa)
Decline of Abbasid Empire
Early African Civilizations (Ghana, Mali, and Songhai)
Byzantine Empire and The Spread of Eastern Orthodox Christianity
Pre-Columbian Americas
Tang and Song Dynasties in China
Diffusion of Chinese Culture to Korea, Japan, Vietnam
The Mongol Khanates
Polynesian Migration
Indian Ocean Trade Networks
(Strayer, Chapters 8-13)
Unit Four: The World Shrinks, 1450 to 1750 (5 weeks)
Key Concepts:
Globalizing Networks of Communication and Exchange
New Forms of Social Organization and Modes of Production
State Consolidation and Imperial Expansion
Topics for Overview:
Becoming a world economy
Europeans to the Americas
Rise of Russia
Atlantic Slave Trade and Columbian Exchange
Emergence of Latin American Colonies
Asia and its role in Globalization
(Strayer, Chapters 14-16)
Unit Five: Industrialization and Western Global Hegemony, 1750 to 1900 (6 weeks)
Key Concepts:
Industrialization and Global Capitalism
Imperialism and Nation-State Formation
Nationalism, Revolution and Reform
Global Migration
Topics for Overview:
Industrialization in Western Societies
Connecting Industrialization and Empire Building
Industrialization in Japan and Russia
Age of Revolutions (America, France, Latin America, Scientific)
Decline of the Ottomans, Qing, and Islamic Heartland
Colonization
(Strayer, Chapters 17-20)
Unit Six: The 20th Century, 1900 to Present (6 weeks)
Key Concepts:
Science and the Environment
Global Conflicts and Their Consequences
New Conceptualizations of Global Economy and Culture
Topics for Overview:
WWI and WWII
Russian, Chinese, and Cuban Revolutions/Communism
Cold War Conflicts
The Green Revolution
Decolonization: Africa, Asia, India
(Strayer, Chapters 21-24)
Attendance: (Three unexcused tardies are equivalent to one unexcused absence)
I follow CHS policies. See Handbook
Behavior:
I follow CHS policies. See Handbook
Materials Needed:
Strayer Text
Notebook
3 Ring Binder
Writing Utensils
Misc:
Electronic Devices may be used for academic purposes only.
Parents and students, please access our course on Schoology. The access code will be provided on the first day of
class. We will utilize Schoology regularly for many reasons, including: links to pertinent articles, lecture notes,
discussions, polls, etc…
Because this class requires that we remain on a strict timeframe, late work will be penalized ½ credit. If you have
extenuating circumstances for any late assignments, please talk to me individually.
Grades will be weighted as follows:
Tests/Quizzes/Summative Assessments = 60%
Activities/Projects/Formative Assessments = 30%
Participation = 10%
I look forward to working with you this semester!
Ms. Heino/Mr. Ripken
GRADING
A = 100 – 93
A- = 92 – 90
B+ = 89 – 87
B = 86 – 83
B- = 82 – 80
C+ = 79 – 77
C = 76 – 73
(Exemplary work – 90%-100% mastery of subject goals)
(Proficient/thorough work – 80%-89% mastery of subject goals)
C- = 72 – 70
D+ = 69 – 67
D = 66 – 63 (Mediocre work – 60%-69% mastery of subject goals)
D- = 62 – 60
NC = 59 – 0 (Unacceptable work – less than 50% mastery of subject goals)
(Acceptable work – 70%-79% mastery of subject goals)
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