Overview: 
Advanced Placement Art history is a college level course that enables students to apply decision-making, analytical and problem-solving skills that will facilitate rational, effective lifelong learning.  Students who successfully complete the requirements can request credit from the college or university they will attend.  Credit will be awarded upon passing the AP Art History exam by the AP College Board.

Art History Units:
1. Global Prehistory
2. The Pacific
3. Indigenous Americas
4. Africa
5. Ancient Mediterranean: The Near East, Ancient Egypt, Greece, Rome
6. South and Southeast Asia
7. Central and East Asia
8. Islamic 400 - 1400
9. Early Europe 400 - 1400
10. Early Modern Atlantic World 1400 - 1750
11. Later Europe and the Americas 1750 - 1900
12. Global Contemporary 1980 to Present

​BIG IDEA 1: Artists manipulate materials and ideas to create an aesthetic object, act, or event.         

• What is art and how is it made?           
• Materials (Environment/Geography)             
• Art making techniques             
• Why make art? (Function)

BIG IDEA 2: Art making is shaped by tradition and change.         

• Why and how does art change?             
• What features/changes of a tradition do you see?             
• Why was the art influential?

BIG IDEA 3: Interpretations of art are variable.         

• How do we describe our thinking about art?             
• What are the formal qualities and content of the art?             
• What is the context of the art? (context = differing interpretations)         
• What attributes of a work can we attribute to other works of art?      (similarities and differences?)