Recommended Prerequisite: Honors American Studies 1. This course is designed to provide students with the analytical skills and factual knowledge necessary to deal critically with the problems and materials of US history. The course prepares students for intermediate and advanced college courses by making demands upon them equivalent to those made by full-year introductory college courses. Students learn to assess historical material, their relevance to a given interpretive problem, their reliability, and their importance, and to weigh the evidence and interpretations presented in historical scholarship. Students can expect to participate fully in classroom discussions, written assignments, projects and research. The course has a summer reading requirement. Grade weighted upon successful completion of course.