Teacher: Mr. Williams | Email: aawilliams@bentonville.k12.ar.us
This Isn’t Your Parent’s World History!
Class: AP World History
Description: Advanced Placement World History is the College Board college-level survey course that introduces students to world civilizations and cultures. The purpose of the AP World History Course is to develop 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. It emphasizes the relevant factual knowledge used 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 and organizing principle for dealing with change and continuity throughout the course. Specific themes provide further organization to the course, along with consistent attention to contacts among societies that form the core of world history as a field of study.
Class: World History
Description: The World History department at Bentonville High School has endeavored to rework the entire World History course. Based on the latest research on teaching World History, the teachers of BHS have chosen to implement a more investigative approach to teaching this class.
Students will be the impetus for this course. They will be asked to investigate research, hypothesize, and synthesize information in new ways. We will be looking at history and evaluating why things have occurred and make connections between civilizations both past and present. Our attempt is to move away from the trivial nature so often associate with history, and give the students the opportunity to more fully understand historical patterns and concepts.