Classroom News Course Syllabus

Description:

This course is an introduction to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth’s surface.  Students employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine human social organization and its environmental consequences.  Students are expected to sit for the Advanced Placement exam in May.  We will be studying the following topics in depth.  For more detail in addition to sample AP questions, visit the following address: 

1.      Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives (5-10%)

2.      Population (13-17%)

3.      Cultural Patterns and Processes (13-17%)

4.      Political Organization of Space (13-17%)

5.      Agricultural and Rural Land Use (13-17%)

6.      Industrialization and Economic Development (13-17%)

7.      Cities and Urban Land Use (13-17%)

File ap human geography syllabus 2011-12.doc (DOC 68 KB)
File current events.doc (DOC 30 KB)
File fall semester final review guide 2011.doc (DOC 32 KB)
File us and them is ethnic conflict inevitable.pdf (PDF 1.15 MB)
File political geography review guide 2010.doc (DOC 33 KB)
File shape of state-type of boundary chart.doc (DOC 28 KB)
File political geography ppt.ppt (PPT 6.89 MB)
File development study guide 2011.doc (DOC 36 KB)
File development introduction - measures and theory.ppt (PPT 1.24 MB)
File stiglitz's another world is possible (development).pdf (PDF 1.68 MB)
File agriculture review guide 2011.doc (DOC 39 KB)
File agriculture lecture -discussion.ppt (PPT 15.58 MB)
File ap human geography book review 2011.doc (DOC 35 KB)
File ap human geography book review selection list.doc (DOC 48 KB)
File industry review guide 2011.doc (DOC 33 KB)
File industry and geography notes.ppt (PPT 333 KB)
File services review guide 2010-11.doc (DOC 30 KB)
File urban geography review guide 2010-11.doc (DOC 32 KB)
File services and cities – economic and urban geography1.ppt (PPT 1.34 MB)

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