Advanced World History B
Teen Focus 12+
Advanced World History is a high school level course adapted from college-level materials with a focus on primary source analysis and critical thinking, including a truly global approach to world history. Advanced World History B spans 1450 CE to the present day to expose students to diverse and significant world history stories.
Advanced World History is a high school level course adapted from college-level materials with a focus on primary source analysis and critical thinking, including a truly global approach to world history. Advanced World History B spans 1450 CE to the present day to expose students to diverse and significant world history stories.
Advanced World History B, a semester-long course, uses a global, chronological approach to get students to think like true world historians. As we move from the end of the Middle Ages to the connected world of the moment, students will encounter abundant primary sources, story maps and opportunities to learn from each other through webinar and forum discussions.
Major topics of Advanced World History B:
- Contact, commerce and Colonization (1450 – 1600)
- Worlds entangled (1600 – 1750)
- Cultures of splendor and power (1500 – 1780)
- Reordering the world (1750 – 1850)
- Alternative visions of the nineteenth century
- Nations and empires (1850 – 1914)
- An unsettled world (1890 – 1914)
- Of masses and visions of the modern (1910 – 1939)
- The three-world order (1940 – 1975)
- Globalization (1970 – 2000)
- 2001 – the present
This is a 16-week class for teens working at an advanced high school level. Weekly webinars are 50 minutes long. Recordings are available for students who must miss a session.
Link to Required Book:
- Worlds Together, Worlds Apart with Sources, Concise Fourth Edition by Pollard, Rosenberg and Tignor (W. W. Norton)
This textbook is the latest revision of a text currently in use at respected universities across America. We have selected this particular edition for its inclusion of the new online study technology, InQuizitive. Please be very careful to acquire the 2024 one-volume Concise Fourth Edition with InQuizitive registration card so that your student will be able to fully participate in all aspects of the course. We strongly recommend ordering directly from Norton to ensure you get the correct edition.
| Topics Covered | Beyond the Renaissance |
|---|---|
| Challenge Level | Aimed at students ready for work appropriate to grades 11 through 12. This is an upper high school history course open to students ages 12 and up who are prepared to encounter and discuss challenging historical events at an accelerated pace. |
| Time Commitment | Most students report spending approximately 4-5 hours per week on homework outside of the webinar. |
| Instructor | Headmaster Galahad |
| Reading List | Worlds Together, Worlds Apart Concise 4th Edition (2024) (E-book also available) |
| Usually offered | Spring Semester |
| Prerequisites | Advanced World History A or equivalent. Students must be prepared to read and analyze challenging material at an upper high school/early college level. Students must also be able to write multi-paragraph texts independently and participate actively in written discussion forums and webinars. |
| Available Sessions | Spring 2025 Tues 10am Pacific, Spring 2024 Friday 11am Pacific, Spring 2023 Thursday 11am Pacific |