Social Science Advanced Placement (AP)
2772 AP Comparative Government and Politics
This course offers students a basic understanding of the world's diverse political structures and practices. Topics include sources of public authority and political power; the relationship between state and society; the relationships between citizens and states; political and institutional frameworks; political change; and the comparative method.
2774 AP European History
This course examines European civilization from the High Renaissance period to the recent past and provides a basic exposure to the factual narrative. Students develop an understanding of some of the principal themes in modern European history and an ability to analyze historical evidence and express that understanding and analysis in writing.
2777 AP Human Geography
AP Human Geography introduces students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth's surface. Students employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine human social organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their science and practice.
2770 AP Macroeconomics
This course provides students with a thorough understanding of the principles of economics that apply to an economic system as a whole, emphasizing the study of national income and price determination. The course develops students' familiarity with economic performance measures, economic growth, and international economics.
2771 AP Microeconomics
This course provides students with a thorough understanding of the principles of economics that apply to the functions of consumers and producers, emphasizing the nature and functions of product markets while also including a study of factor markets and the role of government in the economy.
2776 AP Psychology
This course introduces students to the systematic and scientific study of the behavior and mental processes of human beings, exposes students to each of the major sub fields within psychology, and enables students to examine the methods that psychologists use in their science and practice.
2773 AP United States Government and Politics
This course provides students with an analytical perspective on government and politics in the United States, involving both the study of general concepts used to interpret U.S. politics and the analysis of specific case studies. Topics include constitutional underpinnings of U.S. government, political beliefs and behaviors, political parties and interest groups, the institutions and policy process of national government, and civil rights and liberties.
2775 AP United States History
This course provides students with the analytical skills and factual knowledge necessary to understand the course of United States history. Students learn to assess historical materials and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. The course examines time periods from discovery and settlement of the New World through the recent past.
2778 AP World History
AP World History course is designed for students to develop a greater understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts, in interaction with different types of 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. The course emphasizes relevant factual knowledge deployed in conjunction with leading interpretive issues and types of historical evidence. The course builds on an understanding of cultural, institutional, and technological precedents that, along with geography, set the human stage. Periodization, explicitly discussed, forms an organizing principle for dealing with change and continuity throughout the course. Specific themes provide further organization to the course, along with the consistent attention to contacts among societies that form the core of world history as a field of study.
