Description: This is a one year world history course for students who would like to prepare for college level work.  The purpose of the course is to develop an understanding of the evolution of global processes and contacts, in interaction with different types of human societies in the past thousand years.  The course highlights to nature and changes of international frameworks and their causes and consequences, as well as comparisons among major societies.  This course emphasizes relevant factual knowledge with leading interpretive issues and types of historical evidence, document based questions, and compare contrast essays.