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Art History Course Requirements
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The AP Program unequivocally supports the principle that each individual school must develop its own curriculum for courses labeled "AP." Rather than mandating any one curriculum for AP courses, the AP Course Audit instead provides each AP teacher with a set of expectations that college and secondary school faculty nationwide have established for college-level courses. AP teachers are encouraged to develop or maintain their own curriculum that either includes or exceeds each of these expectations; such courses will be authorized to use the "AP" designation. Credit for the success of AP courses belongs to the individual schools and teachers that create powerful, locally designed AP curricula.
The AP Art History course should be designed by your school to provide students with a learning experience equivalent to that of an introductory college art history survey. The course should develop an understanding and knowledge of diverse historical and cultural contexts of architecture, sculpture, painting, and other art media. Teachers of AP Art History can come from a variety of backgrounds including history, humanities, and art.
There are no specific curricular prerequisites for students taking AP Art History.
All students who are willing to accept the challenge of a rigorous academic curriculum should be considered for admission to AP courses. The College Board encourages the elimination of barriers that restrict access to AP courses for students from ethnic, racial, and socioeconomic groups that have been traditionally underrepresented in the AP Program. Schools should make every effort to ensure that their AP classes reflect the diversity of their student population.
High schools offering this exam must provide the exam administration resources described in the AP Coordinator's Manual. The testing site must have two properly functioning slide projectors and screens to project two slides side by side and staff that know how to operate and troubleshoot the slide projectors. The light in the testing site should be adjustable and the projected images large enough for all students to adequately see the works of art from their seats.
Requirements
To request authorization to label a course "AP," complete the following two steps:
- Complete and submit an AP Course Audit form, on which the teacher and principal attest that their course includes or exceeds the following curricular requirements delineated by college and university faculty.
- Submit an electronic copy of the course syllabus that demonstrates inclusion or improvement on the curricular requirements (see Syllabus Preparation Guidelines). If your course does not include one or more of the curricular requirements but merits designation as a college-level course, see Instructions for Submitting Materials for the process for describing alternate approaches to the course.
 Syllabus Preparation Guidelines
Instructions for Teachers
Instructions on how to submit AP Course Audit materials via the Web will be posted on AP Central and mailed to principals in January 2007.
Curricular Requirements
- The teacher has read the most recent AP Art History Course Description, available as a free download on the AP Art History Course Home Page.
AP Art History Course Home Page
- The syllabus is organized to include course content material from the ancient world through the twenty-first century.
- The course teaches students to understand works of art within their historical context by examining issues such as politics, religion, patronage, gender, function, and ethnicity. The course also teaches students visual analysis of works of art. The course teaches students to understand works of art through both contextual and visual analysis.
- Roughly 20% of the course content is devoted to art beyond the European tradition. (See the most recent Course Description for further information.)
Resource Requirements
- The school ensures that each student has a college-level art history textbook (supplemented when necessary to meet the curricular requirements) for individual use inside and outside of the classroom.
- The school ensures that each AP Art History class has access to slide or digital projectors and screens for viewing at least two works of art side by side.
- The school ensures that each AP Art History class has access to a set of slides or digital images covering the material addressed in the course.
- The school ensures that the teacher has access to additional appropriate college-level art history books for his or her consultation.
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