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High AP Human Geography

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  • Number of Credits

    1

  • Estimated Completion Time

    2 Semesters

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Pre Requisites

This course is for students with advanced reading and writing skills. Completion of previous advanced or honors level English/ Language Arts courses with a C or above strongly recommended.

Description

AP Human Geography introduces high school students to college-level introductory human geography or cultural geography. The content is organized around the discipline’s main subfields: economic geography, cultural geography, political geography, and urban geography. The approach is spatial and problem-oriented. Case studies are drawn from all world regions, with an emphasis on understanding the world in which we live today. Historical information serves to enrich analysis of the impacts of phenomena such as globalization, colonialism, and human–environment relationships on places, regions, cultural landscapes, and patterns of interaction. Students also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their research and applications.

The goal for the course is for students to become more geoliterate, more engaged in contemporary global issues, and more informed about multicultural viewpoints. Students will see geography as a discipline relevant to the world in which they live; as a source of ideas for identifying, clarifying, and solving problems at various scales; and as a key component of building global citizenship and environmental stewardship.

Access the site link below to view the standards from the Florida Department of Education:

http://www.cpalms.org/Public/PreviewCourse/Preview/4509

Access the site link below to view the course description from the College Board:

http://apcentral.collegeboard.com/apc/public/repository/ap-human-geography-course-description.pdf

Note: This course provides elective credit only.

Segment 1

  • Human geography as a field of study
  • Evolution of geography
  • Key questions geographers seek to answer
  • Cartography, including history, tools, and evolution of field of study
  • Types of maps
  • Geographical technologies including GIS and GPS
  • Sources of geographical data
  • Toponymy
  • Interpreting maps
  • Map bias
  • Five themes of geography
  • Absolute and relative location
  • Spatial perspective
  • Physical and human characteristics of place
  • Types of regions
  • Population distribution, density, and scale
  • Analyze population trends
  • Population pyramids
  • Population growth theory
  • Demographic transition model
  • Population policy
  • Impact of population growth
  • Population and natural disasters
  • Migration: Push and pull factors
  • Newton’s gravity model
  • Internal and global migration patterns
  • Involuntary and voluntary migration
  • Impacts of migration on home and host country
  • Cultural diffusion, acculturation, assimilation, and globalization
  • Cultural differences in language, religion, ethnicity, gender
  • Pop and folk culture
  • Cultural landscape and identity

Segment 2

  • Nationality and nationalism
  • Nation-state concept
  • Territorial morphology
  • Boundaries: Identify, interaction, and exchange
  • Federal and Unitary States
  • Electoral geography
  • Imperialism and colonialism
  • International alliances
  • Devolution
  • Political conflict and terrorism
  • Agriculture revolutions
  • Agriculture and place
  • Commercial agriculture
  • Scientific agriculture
  • Economics of agriculture
  • Major agricultural regions
  • Linkages and flows among agricultural regions
  • Rural land use models
  • Rural settlement patterns
  • Environmental impacts of agriculture; deforestation, desertification
  • Green revolution
  • Bio agriculture
  • Economic indicators of development
  • Development models
  • Industrial Revolution
  • Deindustrialization
  • Industrial growth and diffusion
  • Industrial location models
  • Industrial regionalism, economic development, and world systems
  • Environmental impact of industrialization
  • Natural resources and environmental concerns
  • Women in development
  • Sustainable development
  • Globalization of industry; trade
  • Commodity chains
  • Industrial interdependence; transnational corporations
  • Millennium development goals
  • Development of cities; origin, growth; suburbanization; megacities
  • Urban development models
  • Internal city models
  • Urban planning and design
  • Urban housing
  • Urban transportation and infrastructure
  • Changing demographics
  • Urban social structure patterns

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