Title: AP Art History (Fall Semester)
Credit: 0.5 units
Lessons: 16 lessons, 16 submitted
Exams: 2 exams
Grading: Computer and Faculty Evaluated
Prerequisites: None
Description: This course offers a chronological survey of Western art from the dawn of civilization through the present. AP Art History is an engrossing course that provides with students to the same degree of intensity as an introductory college art history survey. Lessons in the fall semester cover the history of art from the Paleolithic period through the late Gothic era in Northern Europe. Students will engage in critical thinking and critical analysis as they develop a contextual understanding of diverse examples of art forms, including architecture, sculpture, painting, and design. The history of art is also an examination of how and why art functions as it does, including such issues as patronage, gender, and the cultural purposes of works of art. Students will be expected to complete a rigorous course of study, with a heavy emphasis upon independent research, analysis, and academic synthesis. Successful completion of both semesters of this course will help prepare students for the College Board Advanced Placement Art History Exam.
Note: College Board authorized this course.
Gifted: This course is academically challenging. Any student who has an interest in the subject and has met the prerequisites (if any), may enroll.
Special Instructions: Enrollment begins the first business day of May; course starts August 31, 2009. Class size is limited.
Students must have an email acccount to enroll and agree to participate in online discussions. The course content
will be viewable two weeks prior to the start date. Enrollment in the spring semester of this course, which starts in Janaury, begins the first business day of October.
Note: AP courses follow a specific calendar, and the normal 9-month
completion policy does not apply to these courses. Therefore, students who have not completed all work by the due
date for the course final (listed on the course calendar) will automatically be withdrawn from the course.
Note: Textbooks purchased through CDIS include the required access code for ArtStudy Online. The code is not valid with used copies, but could be purchase separately. Contact CDIS for further information.
