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Course Description:
The AP program in United States History is designed
to provide students with the analytical skills
and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically
with the problems and materials in United States
history. The program prepares students for intermediate
and advanced college courses by making demands
upon them equivalent to those made by full-year
introductory college courses. Students should
learn to assess historical materials - their relevance
to a given interpretive problem, their reliability,
and their importance - and to weigh the evidence
and interpretations presented in historical scholarship.
An AP United States History course should thus
develop the skills necessary to arrive at conclusions
on the basis of an informed judgment and to present
reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively
in an essay format.
Source: CollegeBoard.com
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