425 AP UNITED STATES HISTORY

This course 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. Students will 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. This course will develop the skills necessary to arrive at conclusion on the basis of informed judgment and to present reasons and evidence clearly and persuasively in essay format. Students selecting this course are expected to take the Advanced Placement United States History examination.