All AP Classes
We’ve got a complete list of all AP classes offered during the 2024 AP season, and resources for every unit of every subject. Not sure when your 2024 AP exams are scheduled for? Check out the 2024 AP Exam Schedule.
All AP Classes – The Complete List
There are 40 different AP exams offered each year. Here’s the full list and a quick preview of each below.
🧠 Note: If your school does not offer the class or it conflicts with your schedule, you are allowed to self-study for any exam without taking the class. You just have to make sure your AP Coordinator orders the exam for you.
Self-studying can be hard, but it’s certainly possible. Especially if you have Cram Mode :)
Full List of AP Subjects
✊🏿 AP African American Studies (2025)
🎨 AP Art & Design: 2D
🎨 AP Art & Design: 3D
🎨 AP Art & Design: Drawing
🖼️ AP Art History
🧬 AP Biology
♾️ AP Calculus AB
♾️ AP Calculus BC
🧪 AP Chemistry
🇨🇳 AP Chinese
🗳️ AP Comparative Government
💻 AP Computer Science A
⌨️ AP Computer Science P
✍🏽 AP English Language
📚 AP English Literature
♻️ AP Environmental Science
🇪🇺 AP European History
🇫🇷 AP French
🇩🇪 AP German
🚜 AP Human Geography
🇮🇹 AP Italian
🇯🇵 AP Japanese
🏛️ AP Latin
💵 AP Macroeconomics
🤑 AP Microeconomics
🎶 AP Music Theory
🎡 AP Physics 1
🧲 AP Physics 2
💡 AP Physics C: E&M
⚙️ AP Physics C: Mechanics
📈 AP Pre-Calculus
🧠 AP Psychology
🔍 AP Research
💬 AP Seminar
🇪🇸 AP Spanish Language
💃🏽 AP Spanish Literature
📊 AP Statistics
🧑🏽⚖️ AP US Government
🇺🇸 AP US History
🌍 AP World History: Modern
Future courses rumored in development include:
🫀 AP Anatomy & Physiology
👔 AP Business Principles
All Units in Every AP Course — 2024 Exam Edition
Here’s what is covered in each course, according to the CED.
Note: Some changes are coming for the 2025 exam season including updates to all AP Physics courses, and AP Psychology.
🎨 AP Art & Design
- Unit 1: Explore Materials, Processes, and Ideas
- Unit 2: Make Art and Design
- Unit 3: Present Art and Design
🖼️ AP Art History
- Unit 1: Global Prehistoric Art, 30,000-500 BCE
- Unit 2: Ancient Mediterranean Art, 3500-300 BCE
- Unit 3: Early European and Colonial American Art, 200-1750 CE
- Unit 4: Later European and American Art, 1750-1980 CE
- Unit 5: Indigenous American Art, 1000 BCE-1980 CE
- Unit 6: African Art, 1100-1980 CE
- Unit 7: West and Central Asian Art, 500 BCE-1980 CE
- Unit 8: South, East, and Southeast Asian Art, 300 BCE-1980 CE
- Unit 9: Art in the Pacific, 700-1980 CE
- Unit 10: Global Contemporary Art, 1980 CE to Present
🧬 AP Biology
- Unit 1: Chemistry of Life
- Unit 2: Cell Structure and Function
- Unit 3: Cellular Energetics
- Unit 4: Cell Communication and Cell Cycle
- Unit 5: Heredity
- Unit 6: Gene Expression and Regulation
- Unit 7: Natural Selection
- Unit 8: Ecology
♾️ AP Calculus AB/BC
- Unit 1: Limits and Continuity
- Unit 2: Differentiation - Definition and Fundamental Properties
- Unit 3: Differentiation - Composite, Implicit, and Inverse Functions
- Unit 4: Contextual Applications of Differentiation
- Unit 5: Analytical Applications of Differentiation
- Unit 6: Integration and Accumulation of Change
- 6.11, 6.12, 6.13 BC Only
- Unit 7: Differential Equations
- 7.5, 7.9 BC Only
- Unit 8: Applications of Integration
- 8.13 BC Only
- (BC Only) Unit 9: Parametric Equations, Polar Coordinates, and Vector-Valued Functions
- (BC Only) Unit 10: Infinite Sequences and Series
🧪 AP Chemistry
- Unit 1: Atomic Structure and Properties
- Unit 2: Molecular and Ionic Bonding
- Unit 3: Intermolecular Forces and Properties
- Unit 4: Chemical Reactions
- Unit 5: Kinetics
- Unit 6: Thermodynamics
- Unit 7: Equilibrium
- Unit 8: Acids and Bases
- Unit 9: Applications of Thermodynamics
🇨🇳 AP Chinese
- Unit 1: Families in Different Societies
- Unit 2: The Influence of Language and Culture on Identity
- Unit 3: Influences of Beauty and Art
- Unit 4: How Science and Technology Affect Our Lives
- Unit 5: Factors That Impact the Quality of Life
- Unit 6: Environmental, Political, and Societal Challenges
🗳️ AP Comparative Government
- Unit 1: Political Systems, Regimes, and Governments
- Unit 2: Political Institutions
- Unit 3: Political Culture and Participation
- Unit 4: Party, Electoral Systems, and Citizen Organizations
- Unit 5: Political and Economic Changes and Development
💻 AP Computer Science A
- Unit 1: Primitive Types
- Unit 2: Using Objects
- Unit 3: Boolean Expressions and if Statements
- Unit 4: Iteration
- Unit 5: Writing Classes
- Unit 6: Array
- Unit 7: ArrayList
- Unit 8: 2D Array
- Unit 9: Inheritance
- Unit 10: Recursion
⌨️ AP Computer Science Principles
- Unit 1: Big Idea 1: Creative Development
- Unit 2: Big Idea 2: Data
- Unit 3: Big Idea 3: Algorithms and Programming
- Unit 4: Big Idea 4: Computer Systems and Networks
- Unit 5: Big Idea 5: Impact of Computing
✍🏽 AP English Language
- Unit 1: Claims, Reasoning, and Evidence
- Unit 2: Organizing Information for a Specific Audience
- Unit 3: Perspectives and How Arguments Relate
- Unit 4: How writers develop arguments, intros, and conclusions
- Unit 5: How a writer brings all parts of an argument together
- Unit 6: Position, Perspective, and Bias
- Unit 7: Successful and Unsuccessful Arguments
- Unit 8: Stylistic Choices
- Unit 9: Developing a Complex Argument
📚 AP English Literature
- Unit 1: Short Fiction I: Introduction to Short Fiction
- Unit 2: Poetry I: Introduction to Poetry
- Unit 3: Longer Fiction and Drama I: Introduction to Longer Fiction and Drama
- Unit 4: Short Fiction II: Character, Conflict, and Storytelling
- Unit 5: Poetry II: Structure and Figurative Language
- Unit 6: Longer Fiction or Drama II: Literary Techniques in Longer Works
- Unit 7: Short Fiction III: Societal and Historical Context
- Unit 8: Poetry III: Contrast, Ambiguous Language, and Other Techniques
- Unit 9: Longer Fiction or Drama III: Nuanced Analysis
♻️ AP Environmental Science
- Unit 1: The Living World: Ecosystems
- Unit 2: The Living World: Biodiversity
- Unit 3: Populations
- Unit 4: Earth Systems and Resources
- Unit 5: Land and Water Use
- Unit 6: Energy Resources and Consumption
- Unit 7: Atmospheric Pollution
- Unit 8: Aquatic and Terrestrial Pollution
- Unit 9: Global Change
🇪🇺 AP European History
- Unit 1: Renaissance and Exploration
- Unit 2: Age of Reformation
- Unit 3: Absolutism and Constitutionalism
- Unit 4: Scientific, Philosophical, and Political Developments
- Unit 5: Conflict, Crisis, and Reaction in the Late 18th Century
- Unit 6: Industrialization and Its Effects
- Unit 7: 19th Century Perspectives and Political Developments
- Unit 8: 20th Century Global Conflicts
- Unit 9: Cold War and Contemporary Europe
🇫🇷 AP French
- Unit 1: Families in Different Societies
- Unit 2: The Influence of Language and Culture on Identity
- Unit 3: Influences of Beauty and Art
- Unit 4: How Science and Technology Affect Our Lives
- Unit 5: Factors That Impact the Quality of Life
- Unit 6: Environmental, Political, and Societal Challenges
🇩🇪 AP German
- Unit 1: Families in Different Societies
- Unit 2: The Influence of Language and Culture on Identity
- Unit 3: Influences of Beauty and Art
- Unit 4: How Science and Technology Affect Our Lives
- Unit 5: Factors That Impact the Quality of Life
- Unit 6: Environmental, Political, and Societal Challenges
🚜 AP Human Geography
- Unit 1: Thinking Geographically
- Unit 2: Population and Migration Patterns and Processes
- Unit 3: Cultural Patterns and Processes
- Unit 4: Political Patterns and Processes
- Unit 5: Agriculture and Rural Land-Use Pattterns and Processes
- Unit 6: Cities and Urban Land-Use
- Unit 7: Industrial and Economic Development Patterns and Processes
🇮🇹 AP Italian
- Unit 1: Families in Different Societies
- Unit 2: The Influence of Language and Culture on Identity
- Unit 3: Influences of Beauty and Art
- Unit 4: How Science and Technology Affect Our Lives
- Unit 5: Factors That Impact the Quality of Life
- Unit 6: Environmental, Political, and Societal Challenges
🇯🇵 AP Japanese
- Unit 1: Families in Different Societies
- Unit 2: The Influence of Language and Culture on Identity
- Unit 3: Influences of Beauty and Art
- Unit 4: How Science and Technology Affect Our Lives
- Unit 5: Factors That Impact the Quality of Life
- Unit 6: Environmental, Political, and Societal Challenges
🏛️ AP Latin
- Unit 1: Vergil, Aeneid, Book 1
- Unit 2: Caesar, Gallic War, Books 1 and 6
- Unit 3: Vergil, Aeneid, Book 2
- Unit 4: Caesar, Gallic War, Book 4
- Unit 5: Vergil, Aeneid, Book 4
- Unit 6: Caesar, Gallic War, Book 5, Part I
- Unit 7: Caesar, Gallic War, Book 5, Part II, Book 6, and Book 7
- Unit 8: Vergil, Aeneid, Books 6, 8, and 12
💵 AP Macroeconomics
- Unit 1: Basic Economic Concepts
- Unit 2: Economic Indicators and the Business Cycle
- Unit 3: National Income and Price Determination
- Unit 4: Financial Sector
- Unit 5: Long-Run Consequences of Stabilization Policies
- Unit 6: Open Economy - International Trade and Finance
🤑 AP Microeconomics
- Unit 1: Basic Economic Concepts
- Unit 2: Supply and Demand
- Unit 3: Production, Cost, and the Perfect Competition Model
- Unit 4: Imperfect Competition
- Unit 5: Factor Markets
- Unit 6: Market Failure and the Role of Government
🎶 AP Music Theory
- Unit 1: Music Fundamentals I (Pitch, Major Scales and Key Signatures, Rhythm, Meter, and Expressive Elements)
- Unit 2: Music Fundamentals II (Minor Scales and Key Signatures, Melody, Timbre, and Texture)
- Unit 3: Music Fundamentals III (Triads and Seventh Chords)
- Unit 4: Harmony and Voice Leading I (Chord Function, Cadence, and Phrase)
- Unit 5: Harmony and Voice Leading II (Chord Progressions and Predominant Function)
- Unit 6: Harmony and Voice Leading III (Embellishments, Motives, and Melodic Devices)
- Unit 7: Harmony and Voice Leading IV (Secondary Function)
- Unit 8: Modes and Form
🎡 AP Physics 1
- Unit 1: Kinematics
- Unit 2: Dynamics
- Unit 3: Circular Motion and Gravitation
- Unit 4: Energy
- Unit 5: Momentum
- Unit 6: Simple Harmonic Motion
- Unit 7: Torque and Rotational Motion
🧲 AP Physics 2
- Unit 1: Fluids
- Unit 2: Thermodynamics
- Unit 3: Electric Force, Field, and Potential
- Unit 4: Electric Circuits
- Unit 5: Magnetism and Electromagnetic Induction
- Unit 6: Geometric and Physical Optics
- Unit 7: Quantum, Atomic, and Nuclear Physics
💡 AP Physics C: Electricity & Magnetism
- Unit 1: Electrostatics
- Unit 2: Conductors, Capacitors, Dielectrics
- Unit 3: Electric Circuits
- Unit 4: Magnetic Fields
- Unit 5: Electromagnetism
⚙️ AP Physics C: Mechanics
- Unit 1: Kinematics
- Unit 2: Newton’s Laws of Motion
- Unit 3: Work, Energy, and Power
- Unit 4: Systems of Particles and Linear Momentum
- Unit 5: Rotation
- Unit 6: Oscillations
- Unit 7: Gravitation
📈AP Pre-Calculus
- Unit 1: Polynomial and Rational Functions
- Unit 2: Exponential and Logarithmic Functions
- Unit 3: Trigonometric and Polar Functions
- (not on test) Unit 4: Functions Involving Parameters, Vectors, and Matrices
🧠 AP Psychology
- Unit 1: Scientific Foundations of Psychology
- Unit 2: Biological Basis of Behavior
- Unit 3: Sensation and Perception
- Unit 4: Learning
- Unit 5: Cognitive Psychology
- Unit 6: Developmental Psychology
- Unit 7: Motivation, Emotion, and Personality
- Unit 8: Clinical Psychology
- Unit 9: Social Psychology
🔍 AP Research
- Unit 1: Big Idea 1: Question and Explore
- Unit 2: Big Idea 2: Understand and Analyze
- Unit 3: Big Idea 3: Evaluate Multiple Perspectives
- Unit 4: Big Idea 4: Synthesize Ideas
- Unit 5: Big Idea 5: Team, Transform, and Transmit
💬 AP Seminar
- Unit 1: Big Idea 1: Question and Explore
- Unit 2: Big Idea 2: Understand and Analyze
- Unit 3: Big Idea 3: Evaluate Multiple Perspectives
- Unit 4: Big Idea 4: Synthesize Ideas
- Unit 5: Big Idea 5: Team, Transform, and Transmit
🇪🇸 AP Spanish Language
- Unit 1: Families in Different Societies
- Unit 2: The Influence of Language and Culture on Identity
- Unit 3: Influences of Beauty and Art
- Unit 4: How Science and Technology Affect Our Lives
- Unit 5: Factors That Impact the Quality of Life
- Unit 6: Environmental, Political, and Societal Challenges
💃🏽 AP Spanish Literature
- Unit 1: La época medieval
- Unit 2: El siglo XVI
- Unit 3: El siglo XVII
- Unit 4: La literatura romántica, realista y naturalista
- Unit 5: La Generación del 98 y el Modernismo
- Unit 6: Teatro y poesía del siglo XX
- Unit 7: El Boom latinoamericano
- Unit 8: Escritores contemporáneos de Estados Unidos, y España
📊 AP Statistics
- Unit 1: Exploring One-Variable Data
- Unit 2: Exploring Two-Variable Data
- Unit 3: Collecting Data
- Unit 4: Probability, Random Variables, and Probability Distributions
- Unit 5: Sampling Distributions
- Unit 6: Inference for Categorical Data - Proportions
- Unit 7: Inference for Quantitative Data - Means
- Unit 8: Inference for Categorical Data - Chi-Squares
- Unit 9: Inference for Quantitative Data - Slopes
👩🏽⚖️ AP US Government
- Unit 1: Foundations of American Democracy
- Unit 2: Interactions Among Branches of Government
- Unit 3: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights
- Unit 4: American Political Ideologies and Beliefs
- Unit 5: Political Participation
🇺🇸 AP US History
- Unit 1: 1491-1607 (Columbus to Jamestown)
- Unit 2: 1607-1754 (Colonial Society)
- Unit 3: 1754-1800 (American Revolution and Constitution)
- Unit 4: 1800-1848 (American Expansion)
- Unit 5: 1844-1877 (Civil War and Reconstruction)
- Unit 6: 1865-1898 (Gilded Age)
- Unit 7: 1898-1945 (Global Conflict)
- Unit 8: 1945-1980: (Cold War and Protest)
- Unit 9: 1980 to Present (Post-Cold War Shifts)