"Light" and "Heavy" AP courses

SculptorDad
Wed, 29 Nov 2017 19:24:32 +0000

^ Great point. Well, I didn’t mean it exclusively. AP World is also very valuable. Either is better than none but USH.

Our current APUSH is heavily focused on its British Colony period. Therefore learning UK and surrounding Europe’s history up to the point is highly helpful.

Personally, I think we are too focused on the short period of time and end up memorizing minuscule timeline and names, and not enough historical understanding of dynamic movement, etc. Other countries learn thousands years of their own history and then put an equal value on the world history, leading to a big picture understanding of civilization. We learn 300 years of our history with not enough value on world history and don’t get that benefit.