2025-2026 Course Description Guide
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COURSE DESCRIPTION:
AP European History is a college level course that will study the political, diplomatic, social, economic, intellectual, and cultural history of Europe from the Renaissance to the present. Besides covering the relevant historical facts from these eras, the course investigates the major themes important to each time period through analysis and discussion of many different types of primary and secondary sources.
COURSE OBJECTIVE:
Students will examine primary sources, such as documentary material, pictorial and graphic materials, maps, political cartoons, statistical tables, and works of art. Students will examine how people have thought about and written about historical events over the course of time. Students will develop their analytical and interpretive writing skills, practicing both document-based and thematic free response style essays often, and writing at least one essay in every unit.
OPEN TO GRADES: 10, 11, 12
RECOMMENDED GRADES: 10
PREREQUISITES: Students should be able to read a college-level textbook and write grammatically correct, complete sentences.
MAY REPEAT FOR CREDIT: No
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