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AP® Art History
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 specific course content of 250 works of art characterized by diverse artistic traditions from prehistory to the present, the students develop 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 understanding of individual works and interconnections across history
What is included
10 units and 37 lessons of AP® Art History, free to start in Stellar at your own pace.
Units
10 units in AP® Art History
- 01Global Prehistory, 30,000–500 BCE3 lessonsPreview unit
- 02Ancient Mediterranean, 3500 BCE - 300 CE4 lessonsPreview unit
- 03Early Europe and Colonial Americas, 200–1750 CE5 lessonsPreview unit
- 04Later Europe and Americas, 1750–1980 CE4 lessonsPreview unit
- 05Indigenous Americas, 1000 BCE– 1980 CE4 lessonsPreview unit
- 06Africa, 1100–1980 CE3 lessonsPreview unit
- 07West and Central Asia, 500 BCE–1980 CE3 lessonsPreview unit
- 08South, East, and Southeast Asia, 300 BCE–1980 CE4 lessonsPreview unit
- 09The Pacific, 700–1980 CE3 lessonsPreview unit
- 10Global Contemporary, 1980 CE to Present4 lessonsPreview unit
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