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AP HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

H900 *^

Offered at Canyon, El Modena, & Villa Park High School only
The AP Human Geography course introduces students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped
human understanding, use and alteration of Earth’s surface. Students learn to employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis
to examine human socioeconomic organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and
tools geographers use in their research and applications.

WORLD HISTORY
H400 *^
H410 CTP ACADEMY *^
E423 SPECIAL ED *^

CTP is offered at El Modena only
Within the World History course, multiple geographical factors, historical and cultural backgrounds will be studied to explain
the importance of emerging leadership and the challenges they face in the world of today. Studies will include Latin America,
the Middle East, the Indian Sub-Continent, China, Africa, Southeast Asia, Japan, and the former republics of the Soviet Union.
AP WORLD HISTORY

H997 *^
Offered at El Modena, Orange, Villa Park High School only
SOCIAL SCIENCE AP World History is equivalent to one year of college level preparation. The purpose of the course is to develop greater

understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts in interaction with different types of human societies. The course
highlights the nature of changes in international frameworks and their causes and consequences, as well as comparisons among
major societies. The course builds upon an understanding of cultural, institutional, and technological precedents that, along with
geography, set the human stage prior to 1000 C.E. The course is organized by era and specific themes focusing on contacts
among societies that form the basis of world history. The areas covered are: Asia, Latin America, Europe, Africa and the United
States.

AP EUROPEAN HISTORY
H986 *^

Offered at Canyon & El Modena High School only
The AP European History course focuses on developing students’ understanding of European History from approximately 1450
to the present. The course has student investigate the content of t European History for significant events, individuals,
developments, and processes in four historical periods, and develop and use the same thinking skills and methods (analyzing
primary and secondary sources, making historical comparisons, chronological reasoning, and argumentation) employed by
historians when they study the past. The course also provides five themes (interaction of Europe and the world, poverty and
prosperity, objective knowledge and subjective visions, states and other world institutions of power, and individual society) that
students explore throughout the course in order to make connections among historical developments indifferent times and places.
UNITED STATES HISTORY
H500 *^
H510 CTP ACADEMY *^
E424 SPECIAL ED *^

CTP is offered at El Modena only
This course is an examination of major turning points in American history in the twentieth century. Themes to be emphasized are
the expanding role of the federal government and federal courts and tensions between the individual and the state. The
movements for equal rights for racial minorities and women and the role of the United States as a major world power should
also be included.

KEY * meets UC approval for “A-G” ^ meets course requirements for NCAA
An “E” at the end of the course number indicates that the class is offered online through Virtual Learning