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AP UNITED STATES HISTORY

Department
Social Studies
# Semesters
2
Credit Type
Social Studies
Prerequisites
Teacher Recommendation. Completion of Social Studies Grade 9-10
Course Description

The AP U.S. History course focuses on the development of historical thinking skills (chronological reasoning, comparing and contextualizing, crafting historical arguments using historical evidence, and interpreting and synthesizing historical narrative) and an understanding of content learning objectives organized around eight themes, such as national and regional identity, geography and peoples' relationship to their environment, and America in the world, and nine distinct periods spanning from 1491 to the present.

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