AP Human Geography - Winston-Salem/Forsyth County Schools



AP Human Geography

Syllabus

Course Overview:

AP Human Geography is a year long course designed to provide a systematic study of the effects of human populations in the world. The following units will be covered: the nature of geography, cultural geography, population geography, political organization of space, industrialization, urban and rural land use. Students will learn to analyze maps, data, and geographic models. Not only will students learn about the world, but we will use local issues for case studies. Analysis of current world events and opinion writing will be required. Students may receive college credit for successful completion of the College Board AP test. Acceptable scores vary among colleges. Students must take the AP test in order to receive AP credit.

Requirements:

Rubenstein, James M., The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography, 8th Edition. Upper Saddle River, NJ. Pearson Education, 2005.

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Semester 1, 1000 Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseni

Additional source materials and readings will be provided in class.

Because this class involves complex and controversial cultural and political issues, students must be respectful of the opinions of their classmates.

Each unit will be followed with an objective test, free response questions and an analytical essay.

There will be a short quiz every Friday on current events that pertain to our discipline with a corresponding map quiz.

Changing events in the world may necessitate the revision of our case studies.

Additional projects are as follows:

1st quarter 1000 Splendid Suns

2nd quarter Cultural Comparison scrapbook

3rd quarter research paper on world issue

4th quarter NGO creation and presentation to solve problem addressed in research paper

Rubrics will be provided for each assignment

APHUG

Unit 1-Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives

8/25 Intro to HUG, GQ Reading: Rubenstein, 1

8/26 Five themes, analysis of Forsyth Co. / CIA Homework

8/27 World map test Physical geography

8/30 FRQ on Poisonwood Bible

8/31 Maps, Scale & Projection/ Historical and Political/ Must have 1000 Splendid Suns

9/1 Cartograms and Chloropleths

9/2 Region / FRQ practice

9/3 Region analysis formal, functional, vernacular/ UN Wire

9/7 Culture

9/8 Connection and Diffusion/ homework observation

9/9 FRQ

9/10 Riverrun at East-analysis

Unit 2 Population and Movement Rubenstein, 2/3

9/13 Population-Environmental determinism/ Possibilism

9/14 Reading tables and Acronyms

9/15 interpreting the Why of population figures

9/16 Demographic Transition model

9/17 Application and UN Wire

9/20 population pyramids

9/21 Using pyramids to interpret and predict/ practice

9/22 Malthus

9/23 Swift and Neo Malthusian Theory

9/24 Analysis/UN Wire

9/27 Case Studies-Cairo Plan/ A Million Girls are Missing

9/28 Specific gender issues in population

9/29Current political issues/ immigration

9/30 Disease/ AIDS Mapping and data due

10/1 Current disease challenges and geography/ UN Wire QUIZ

10/4 Migration-push pull-US Immigration history

10/5 Immigration debate

10/6 Refugees UNHCR/lab

10/7 Diaspora of the Palestinian Community-effects of refugee containment

10/8 Katrina’s victims—Refugees-reading analysis?/ UN QUIZ

10/11 Newton’s First Law of Migration

10/12 Assimilation, Acculturation, Intervening Obstacles

10/13 Analysis essay

10/14 Objective test

10/15 FRQ_______________________________________________________

Unit 3 Cultural Patterns and Processes Rubenstein 4,5,6,7

10/18 Components of Culture/ “All Cultures are Equal” David Brooks

10/19 Mapping Cultural Realms and Regions/ Identifying Hearths

10/20 Understanding “Southern” realm region analysis

10/21 Diffusion ”Gansta Culture” reading

10/22 FRQ 1000 Splendid Suns

10/25 Material World

10/26 Folk and “pop” culture

10/27 Food and relationship to place

10/28 Death practices and superstition around the world____________________

11/1 Folk music listening exercises and identification

11/2 Clothing relationship to place

11/3 Architecture and relationship to place/

11/4 American residential architecture

11/5 Language roots/ Film clip The Gods Must Be Crazy /UN Wire Quiz

11/8 Language diffusion

11/9 language and it effects on the cultural landscape

11/10 History of the Basque Conflict

11/11 Veteran’s Day

11/12 Objective test on 4/5

11/15 FRQ

11/16 Religion-diffusion and maps

11/17 Universalizing vs. ethnic religion

11/18 Animism and nature religions-folk readings

11/19 Hinduism

11/22 Religion case studies

11/23 “Thanksgiving” in world cultures

11/29 Judaism-People of the book and the patriarchy of Abraham

11/30 Comp lab-religion

12/1 Comp lab History of Israeli/ Palestinian conflict

12/2 Buddhism

12/3 Christianity/UN Wire

12/6 Islam

12/7 Sunni vs. Shia/ Iraq

12/8 History of the Northern Ireland Conflict

12/9 Religion on the Cultural landscape—sacred space

12/10 Field Study-Wholefoods, World Villages, Nawab. Temple Emanuel,

Architectural tour of Buena Vista, Warthogs Stadium site visit

(This is tentative!!!!!!)

12/13Comp lab-Culture research for your project

12/14 Effects of Globalization on Culture/ Articles from NY Times on the

Bushman/ Essay

12/15 Objective test –Ch. 6

12/16 FRQ

12/17 Int’l Food Day ____________________________________________

1/3 Samuel Huntington-“Clash of Civilizations”-Robert Kaplan The Coming Anarchy and response

1/4 Ethnicity and American ethnic patterns/race

1/5 Effects of Colonialism on ethnic conflict/ Rwanda case study

1/6 Hotel Rwanda

1/7 Hotel Rwanda

1/10 Collapse of the USSR and rise of regional nationalism

1/ 11 John Merschimer-

Why We will Soon Miss the Cold War-- PROJECT DUE

1/12 Hyper nationalism”/” Balkanization”

1/13 Genocide-A brief world history

1/14 Objective Test-Ch 7 (The exam schedule has not been set so be flexible here—I will keep you posted!)

1/18-1/20 Semester Exam Week_____________________________________

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