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AP Human Geography

Scope and Sequence

2013-2014

Instructor: Alejandro Martinez

Email: Alejandromartinez@

Introduction:

Human Geography deals with issues such as population, culture, economic development, politics and urbanization. We can better understand the world that we live in and circumstances that affect all of the world’s citizens by analyzing these facets of society. Ultimately, the study of Human Geography helps us better understand the complex issues in today’s world.

Goals:

The College Board sets fourth that upon completion of the AP Human Geography course, students should be able to complete the following five tasks:

1. Use and think about maps and spatial data sets: This goal is achieved when students learn to use maps and spatial data to pose and solve problems.

2. Understand and interpret the implications of associations among phenomena in place: Students are able to understand how tastes, values, political regulations, and economic constraints work together to create particular types of cultural landscapes.

3. Recognize and interpret at different scales the relationships among patterns and processes: Students should know how to look to process operations on multiple scales when seeking explanations of geographic patterns and arrangements (e.g. the local, the regional, the national or the global scale).

4. Define regions and evaluate the regionlization process: Students should be able to move beyond just locating and describing regions to considering how and why they came into being.

5. Characterize and analyze changing interconnections among places: Students should learn to view places and patterns not in isolation but in terms of their spatial and functional relationships with other places and patterns.

Geographical Concepts:

Throughout this course students will incorporate the fundamental concepts of Geography: location, distance, direction, scale and place. These concepts will assist the student in understanding spatial interaction and behavior, patterns of culture, the dynamics of population growth and movement, human settlement patterns and urbanization.

Textbooks / Ancillary Materials / Required Reading

De Blij, H.J., Murphy, A. B., & Fouberg, E.H. (2007). Human geography: People, place, and culture. (8th Ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Fuller, C., De Blij, H.J., Murphy, A. B., & Fouberg, E.H. (2007). Advanced placement student companion to human geography: People, place, and culture. (8th Ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Kuby, M., Harner, J., & Gober, P. (2007). Human Geography in Action. (4th Ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Web Sites:

• U.S. Census Bureau –

• Digital Atlas of the United States –

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Course Outline

Unit 1 – Introduction to Human Geography?

Basic Concepts / Course Introduction:

1. Introduction to Geography and Human Geography.

2. What Do Maps Tell Us?

3. What Is Scale and Why Worry About It?

4. The Earth: Concepts of Geography.

Unit 1 Test

Unit 2 - Population

Population Patterns and Processes:

1. Where Do People Live?

2. Why Do They Live In Particular Places?

3. Population Composition.

4. How Do Governments Affect Population Change?

Unit 2 Test

Unit 6 – Language

The Global Linguistic Mosaic:

1. The Role of Language.

2. The Distribution of Languages.

3. The Diffusion of Language.

4. The Role of Language in Making Places.

Unit 6 Test

Unit 7 – Religion

The Geography of Religion

1. What Role Does Religion Play in Culture?

2. Where did Religions Originate?

3. What is the Role of Religion in Politics? Political Conflicts?

Unit 7 Test

Unit 9 – Urban Geography

Land and Land Use

1. When and Why did People Start Living in Cities?

2. Where are Cities Located?

3. How do People Make Cities?

4. GLOBALIZATION.

Unit 9 Test

Unit 5 – Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Sexuality

The Construction of Identity

1. What is Identity?

2. How do Places Affect Identity?

3. How do Power Relationships Subjugate Certain Groups?

Unit 5 Test

Unit 3 – Migration

The Migration of People

1. What is Migration and do people Migrate?

2. How do Governments affect Migration?

3. What is the long term effect of migration?

Unit 3 Test

Unit 4 – Local Culture, Popular Culture, and Cultural Landscapes

Local and Popular Cultures

1. What is local and popular culture?

2. How is culture diffused?

3. How can culture be seen in the physical landscape?

Unit 4 Test

Unit 8 – Political Geography

The Political Organization of Space

1. How are States and Nations organized?

2. How do the states organized their government?

3. How can we use geopolitics to understand the world?

4. What are supranational organizations?

Unit 8 Test

Unit 10 - Development

The Definition of Development

1. How do we define and measure development?

2. How does geography affect development?

3. What are the barriers to development?

4. Why do countries experience uneven development?

Unit 10 Test

Unit 11- Agriculture

The Definition and Beginning of Agriculture

1. What is agriculture?

2. How did industrialization change agriculture?

3. How does agriculture leave an imprint on the landscape?

4. What is agribusiness and how is it approached on a global scale?

Unit 11 Test

Unit 12- Industry and Services

The Industrial Revolution and Its Lasting Effects

1. Where did the Industrial Revolution begin?

2. Where are the major industrial belts?

3. What is the service economy?

4. How does the service economy affect work training?

Unit 12 Test

Unit 13- The Human Environment

Changes in the Earth’s Environment

1. How has the Earth changed over time?

2. What impact have humans had on Earth?

3. What is climate change?

4. How are we attempting to mitigate climate change?

Unit 13 Test

Unit 14- Globalization

The Macro and Micro effects of Globalization

1. What is globalization?

2. How has the Information Technology sector contributed to globalization?

3. How have identities changed in the global environment??

Unit 14 Test

Assessments

• Each unit will conclude with a 75 question Unit Test

• Chapter quiz’s will be given periodically

• All review questions must be printed, answered, and presented to the instructor on the day requested.

Nine –Weeks Projects

1st Nine Weeks

• Developing country NPR Reports (weekly)

• Current Event from National Geographic (monthly)

2nd Nine Weeks

• World Map/ Continents (weekly)

• Cultural Exploration

3rd Nine Weeks

• Political Abstracts (weekly)

• Religion Presentations

4th Nine Weeks

• Current Event from National Geographic (monthly)

• Industrialization and Urbanization in Miami

Notebook

Each student is responsible for maintaining a notebook solely for this class. You will receive a notebook schedule which will provide you with the specific format for taking notes and the dates each set are due. Rubrics will be given before each assignment is due.

Course Concepts and Ideas:

AP Human Geography will focus on the following concepts (bold) and supporting ideas:

Population:

1. Distance Decay 7. Malthus

2. Demographic transition model 8. Walter Christaller – Central Place Theory

3. Migratory patterns – voluntary/involuntary 9. Migration chain

4. Von Thunen model 10.Mobility transition–relates migration stages / demographic transition

5. Gravity model 11. Ravenstein – Laws of Migration

6. J curve / S curve 12. Sequent Occupancy – immigrant settlement

Culture:

13. Culture – material, non – material 18. toponyms

14. Von Humboldt, Alexander 19. Survey systems

15. Cultural regions – formal, functional, vernacular 20. Cultural continuum: Folk / Popular, characteristics of each

16. Possibilism 21. Ethnic geography

17. Settlement types

Industrial/Economic Development:

22. Economic landscape – assembly, processes, 31. GDP/GNP – economic indicators, easy measurement data

Stores, redistribution of goods, people/ideas 32. Localization model – (example: maquiladoras)

23. Spatial margin of profitability 33. Rostov’s Development theory

24. Economic sectors: primary, secondary, tertiary 34. Core periphery model

quaternary, quinary 35. Berlin Conference of 1884

25. Global economic interdependence 36.Economic impact of colonialism/imperialism

26.circulation systems 37. Weber model

27. De-industrialization 38.NAFTA

28. Location of industrial activity

29. Shifting workforce

30. Economic costs of overcoming distance

Politics:

39. Nation-state, Nation, State 43. Trends/balance of power

40. Centrifugal/centripetal forces 44. Boundaries: function, model of science method, empirical approach

41. Conflict – territorial, ethnic theoretical approach (compare last two)

42. Enclaves/exclaves

Agriculture:

46. Subsistence agriculture – extensive/intensive 49. Commercial agriculture

47. Boserup thesis 50. Characteristics of agricultural regions

48. Green Revolution

Urbanization:

52. Urban models: Concentric Zone, Sector, 57. Megalopolis

Multiple-Nuclei, Urban Realms 58. Function of cities

53. Surburbanization 59. Infrastructure

54. Edge cities 60. Land use dynamics

55. Primate city

56. Gentrification

Curricular Requirements

|C1 |C2 |C3 |C4 |

|The course provides a systematic study of |The course teaches the use of |The course teaches spatial |The course teaches students how to |

|human geography, including the following |spatial concepts and landscape |relationships at different scales |use and interpret maps, data sets, |

|topics outlined in the Course Description: |analysis to examine human |ranging from the local to the |and geographic models. GIS, aerial |

|Nature of and Perspectives on Geography |organization of space. |global. |photographs, and satellite images, |

|Population | | |though not required, can be used |

|Cultural Patterns and Processes | | |effectively in the course. |

|Political Organization of Space | | | |

|Agricultural and Rural Land Use | | | |

|Industrialization and Economic Development | | | |

|Cities and Urban Land Use | | | |

Instructor reserves the right to change the order of the units presented without prior warning.

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