This course explores fundamental questions about the history of the United States. How was American identity defined, maintained, and redefined? How did patterns of individualism and community diverge and converge? How have political systems, social structures, culture, and the economy in the United States evolved? To answer these and other questions, students will study primary sources and develop ideas both through discussion and formal and informal written responses. By the end of the year, students will be able to analyze American history from the Colonial Era to the Cold War.
United States History Year: 1 Credit Prerequisite: None
In AP U.S. History, students investigate significant events, individuals, developments, and processes in nine historical periods from approximately 1491 to the present. Students develop and use the same skills and methods employed by historians: analyzing primary and secondary sources; developing historical arguments; making historical connections; and utilizing reasoning about comparison, causation, and continuity and change. The course also provides eight themes that students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments in different times and places: American and national identity; work, exchange, and technology; geography and the environment; migration and settlement; politics and power; America in the world; American and regional culture; and social structures.
AP United States History Year: 1 Credit Prerequisite: A in AP World History and Instructor Approval
Economics Semester: 0.5 Credits Prerequisite: None
This course introduces students to the fundamentals of economics, including supply and demand, income distributions, finance, stabilization policies, and international economics. Students will understand the basics of micro/macroeconomics and be able to use graphs, charts, and other forms of data to analyze, describe, and explain economic concepts.
Government and Politics Semester: 0.5 Credits Prerequisite: None
This course provides a nonpartisan introduction to key political concepts, ideas, institutions, policies, interactions, roles, and behaviors that characterize the constitutional system and political culture of the United States. Students will study U.S. foundational documents, Supreme Court decisions, and other texts and visuals to gain an understanding of the relationships and interactions within and across political institutions. Students will also engage in skill development that requires them to read and interpret data, make comparisons and applications, and develop evidence-based arguments. In addition, they will complete a political science research or applied civics project.
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