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  • The Advanced Placement Program® has enabled millions of students to take college-level courses and earn college credit, advanced placement, or both, while still in high school. AP Exams are given each year in May. Students who earn a qualifying score on an AP Exam are typically eligible, in college, to receive credit, placement into advanced courses, or both. Every aspect of AP course and exam development is the result of collaboration between AP teachers and college faculty. They work together to develop AP courses and exams, set scoring standards, and score the exams. College faculty review every AP teacher’s course syllabus.

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  • Classes Currently Offered

    AP STUDIO ART:     The AP Art and Design Program includes three different courses: AP 2-D Art and Design, AP 3-D Art and Design, and AP Drawing. In each course, you’ll investigate materials, processes, and ideas. You’ll make works of art and design by practicing, experimenting, and revising, and you will communicate your ideas about art and design through written and visual expression.

     

    Your Goal for the Course: You’ll create a portfolio of college-level work and submit it for evaluation (instead of taking a year-end paper-and-pencil AP Exam). A qualifying portfolio score can earn you college credit and/or advanced placement. Want to see examples of portfolio submissions? Check out the 2020 AP Art and Design Exhibit, which showcases outstanding artwork created by students for the May 2020 exam.
     
     
    AP ART HISTORY: Explore the history of art across the globe from prehistory to the present. You’ll analyze works of art through observation, discussion, reading, and research. 
     

    AP Art History is an introductory college-level art history course. Students cultivate their understanding of art history through analyzing works of art and placing them in historical context as they explore concepts like culture and cultural interactions, theories and interpretations of art, the impact of materials, processes, and techniques on art and art-making, and understanding purpose and audience in art historical analysis.

     

AP College Board Course Overview

 Course Overview
(Length - 55 minutes)
Target Audience: 11th-12th Graders
 
The AP Art History course welcomes students into the global art world to engage with its forms and content as they research, discuss, read, and write about art, artists, art-making, and responses to and interpretations of art. By investigating the specific course content of 250 works of art characterized by diverse artistic traditions from prehistory to the present, the students develop an in-depth, holistic understanding of the history of art from a global perspective. Students learn and apply skills of visual, contextual, and comparative analysis to engage with a variety of art forms, developing an understanding of individual works and interconnections across history.

Equivalency and Prerequisites

College Course Equivalent: A two-semester college introductory art history course
Recommended Prerequisites: AP Art History is the equivalent of a two-semester introductory college or university art history survey course
 
What you will learn 
  • Evaluating works of art from different eras and cultures
  • Seeing connections to artistic traditions, styles, or practices in a work of art
  • Developing a theory about the meaning of a work of art and explaining and supporting your interpretation

Course Content

  • Unit 1: Global Prehistory, 30,000–500 BCE
  • Unit 2: Ancient Mediterranean, 3500 BCE–300 CE
  • Unit 3: Early Europe and Colonial Americas, 200–1750 CE
  • Unit 4: Later Europe and Americas, 1750–1980 CE
  • Unit 5: Indigenous Americas, 1000 BCE–1980 CE
  • Unit 6: Africa, 1100–1980 CE
  • Unit 7: West and Central Asia, 500 BCE–1980 CE
  • Unit 8: South, East, and Southeast Asia, 300 BCE–1980 CE
  • Unit 9: The Pacific, 700-1980 CE
  • Unit 10: Global Contemporary, 1980 CE to Present

Exam Overview:
(Length - 3 HOURS)

The AP Art History Exam assesses student understanding of the skills and learning objectives outlined in the course framework. The exam is 3 hours long and includes 80 multiple-choice questions and 6 free-response questions.

 

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https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/courses/ap-art-history

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