Course Overview

AP ® Human Geography is a semester course designed to fulfill the curriculum expectations of a one semester university human geography course. The course focuses on the processes and cause and effect relationships of human populations. Emphasis throughout the course is on the spatial distribution, differences in scale and cultural determinants influenced by global interaction and integration. Major themes that transcend the course of study at multiple levels of scale include globalization, diffusion, assimilation, acculturation, integration and interaction. The course provides a systematic study of human geography in a prescribed set of topics:

 

◊Nature of and Perspectives on Geography

◊Population

◊Cultural Patterns and Processes

◊Political Organization of Space

◊Agricultural and Rural Land Use

◊Industrialization and Economic Development

◊Cities and Urban Land Use

 

Course Objectives:

•The student will develop a geographic perspective to better understand the intricate relationship between peoples and events at varying degrees of scale.

•The student will use interpretive abilities to develop spatial concepts at different scales.

•The student will use spatial concepts, geographic terminology and landscape analysis to examine human organization of space at multiple levels of scale.

•The student will use and interpret maps, data sets, and geographic models from different sources to evaluate the human landscape. This includes sources from GIS, aerial photographs, and satellite images and data sets from NGO’s and Government agencies.