Course Overview
Advanced Placement European History is a year long course equivalent to the rigor of a college introductory course. Students are introduced to the social, artistic, cultural, political, and economic developments from 1450 to the modern era. Emphasis is placed on principal themes in modern European History: intellectual, political and social, in addition to students comprehending events, movements and chronology. Aside from providing a basic narrative of time periods, the goals of AP European History are for students to: demonstrate an ability to analyze historical evidence and interpretation through writing, utilize and analyze primary source documents and to not only synthesize data from various chronological periods but to take that data and apply it to interrelated categories of intellectual and cultural history, political and diplomatic history and social and economic history.
The course is intended to prepare students to take the AP European History exam on May 7, 2010. This exam includes 80 multiple-choice questions (to be completed in 55 minutes), one “document based” (DBQ) essay (to be completed in 45 minutes), and two “free-response” essays (to be completed in 70 minutes).