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High School AP Human Geography

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Suggested Prerequisites

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Description

This course is designed to provide college-level instruction on the patterns and processes that impact the way humans understand, use, and change Earth’s surface. You will use geographic models, methods, and tools to examine human social organization and its effect on the world in which we live. You will be challenged to use maps and geographical data to examine spatial patterns and processes and analyze the changing interconnections among people and places.

Module One: Thinking Geographically

-Types of maps

-Methods of geographic data collection

-Geographical effects of decisions made using geographical information

-Major geographic concepts that illustrate spatial relationships

-Scales of analysis

-Regions

-Human-environmental interaction


Module Two: Population and Migration Patterns and Processes

-Factors that influence the distribution of human populations at different scales

-Population distribution and density’s impacts on society and the environment.

-Elements of population composition used by geographers

-Contemporary and historical trends in and theories of population growth and decline

-Population and immigration policies

-Factors encouraging migration

-Forced and voluntary migration

-Historical and contemporary geographic effects of migration


Module Three: Cultural Patterns and Processes

-Characteristics, attitudes, and traits of culture

-Characteristics of cultural landscapes.

-How landscape features and land and resource use reflect cultural beliefs and identities

-Patterns and landscapes of language, religion, ethnicity, and gender

-Types of diffusion

-Effects of diffusion on the cultural landscape

-How historical processes impact current cultural patterns

-Factors leading to diffusion of universalizing and ethnic religions


Module Four: Political Patterns and Processes

-Different types of political entities

-Processes that have shaped contemporary political geography

-Political power and territoriality

-Political boundaries

-Nature and function of international and internal boundaries

-Federal and unitary states

-Factors that lead to the devolution of states

-Political, economic, cultural, and technological challenges to state sovereignty

-Centrifugal and centripetal forces

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