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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY
What is Human Geography?
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Human Geography is the study of where humans
— their activities and institutions such as ethnic groups, cities, and industries—
are located and why they are there.
Human Geography also examines
interactions of humans with their
environments and draws on basic elements
of physical geography.
Why? Why There?
Bubonic Plague
World Cup
BP Gulf Oil Spill
HIV/AIDS Worldwide
Pedagogy
How to teach APHG?
tolerance
Globalization
ethnocentrism
Future Leaders
Goals: On completion of the course, the student
should be able to:
•Use and think about maps & spatial data
•Understand and interpret the implications of associations
among phenomena in places
•Recognize and interpret at different scales the relationships
among patterns and processes
•Define regions and evaluate the regionalization process
•Characterize and analyze changing interconnections among
places
Content Areas of Study:
• Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives
• Population
• Cultural Patterns & Processes
• Political Organization of Space
• Agricultural & Rural Land Use
• Industrialization & Economic Development
• Cities & Urban Land Use
1. Geography – 5%-10%
•Field of inquiry
•Maps and geographers
•Geographic concepts:
•Location, Space, Place, Scale, Pattern,
Regionalization, & globalization
•Skills - How to use, interpret, recognize, and/or
define:
•maps/spatial data
•phenomena in places
•Relationships at different scales of patterns &
processes
•Regions & regionalization process
Robinson Projection
•New technologies
•GIS, GPS
•Sources of Geographical ideas
•Census data
2. Population - 13-17%
•Geographical analysis
•Consequences of density, distribution, and scale
•Patterns of composition: age, sex, race, &
ethnicity
•Natural hazards: past, present & future
•Growth & decline over time/space
•Trends – historical & future projections
•Theories & Models
•Patterns of fertility, mortality, & health
•Regional variations of demographic transitions
•Effects of population policies
•Population Movement
•Push/Pull factors
•Voluntary involuntary migration various scales
•Migration selectivity
•Short-term, local movements, pace
Demographic Transitional Model
3. Cultural Patterns & Processes
13-17%
•Concepts of Culture
•Traits, Diffusion, Acculturation, Cultural regions
•Cultural Differences
•Language, Religion, Ethnicity, Gender, Popular & Folk
Culture
•Environmental impact of cultural attitudes &
practices
•Cultural landscapes & identity
•Values & preferences
•Symbolic landscapes & sense of place
4. Political Organization of Space
•Territorial dimensions of
politics
13-17%
•Territoriality concept
•Challenges to inherited
political—territorial
arrangements
•Changing nature of
sovereignty
•Boundaries
•Nature & meaning
•Fragmentation,
unification, alliance
•Influences on
identity,
interaction,
•Spatial relationships
between political patterns
& patterns of ethnicity,
economy, & environment
•& exchange
•Electoral geography,
including gerrymandering
•Evolution of contemporary
political patterns
•Nation-state concept
•Colonialism &
imperialism
•Federal & unitary states
5. Agriculture & Rural Land Use –
13-17%
•Major Ag production regions
•Development & Diffusion
•Neolithic Ag Revolution
•Second Ag Revolution
•Rural land use & settlement patterns
•Ag systems – bioclimatic zones
•Variations within zones &
effects of markets
•Linkage & flows among regions
of food production &
consumption
•Models – Von Thunen
•Settlement patterns & major ag types
•Modern Commercial Ag
•3rd Ag Revolution
•Green Revolution
•Biotechnology
•Spatial Organization & diffusion of
industrial ag
•Future food supply &
environmental impact
6. Industrialization & Economic
Development – 13-17%
•Key concepts
•Growth & Diffusion of
industrialization
•Changing roles of energy & technology
•Industrial Revolution
•Evolution of economic cores and
peripheries
•Geographic critiques of models of
economic localization, (i.e., land rent,
comparative costs of transportation),
industrial location, economic
•Development, & world systems
(i.e., Wallerstein…)
•Contemporary patterns &
impacts of industrialization &
development
•Spatial organization of the world
economy
•Variations in levels of development
•Deindustrialization & economic
development
•Pollution, health, & quality of life
•Industrialization, environmental
change, and sustainability
•Local development initiatives:
government policies
7. Cities & Urban Land Use
•Functional
character of
contemporary cities
•Definitions of Urbanism
•Origins & evolution of
cities
•Changing
employment mix
•Changing
demographic & social
structures
•Historical patterns of
urbanization
•Rural-urban migration & urban
growth
•Global cities & megacities
•Models of urban systems
•Built environment & social space
•Comparative models of internal city
structure
•Transportation & infrastructure
•Political organization of urban areas
•Urban planning & design
• Patterns of race, ethnicity, gender, & class
•Uneven development, ghettoization, and
gentrification
•Impacts of suburbanization & edge cities
Human Geography in Action
Unit of Study
Field Trip Location
Overview
Geography
Campus Walk
Create Map
Cultural Patterns &
Processes
Visit Houses of Worship: Islam
(Sunni & Sh’a), Judaism,
Buddhism, other religions
On a map identify ethnicity &
race conflicts worldwide and
examine origins of conflicts
Political Organization
of Space
State Board of Elections or General Population, apportionment
and drawing district lines
Assembly
Agriculture & Rural
Land Use
Local working farm, biotechnology
firm or university depart., food
processing plant
Collect data and predict future
ag production & rural land
use; critique models
Industrialization &
Economic Development
Chamber of Commerce or local
manufacturing plant
Examine the changing
geography of jobs; critique
models
(judgeships, congressional
districts)
Cities & Urban Land Use City Planning/Zoning Department
Exam past, present planning for
population city’s vision for land use;
making projections using all
models; integrate terms (i.e.,
gentrification and gehttoization,
blockbusting, redlining…)
Debriefing: Field Trip
•Examine data
•Complete
assignment
•Presentations
•Discussions
•Evaluation Field
Work
Getting Started
•AP Coordinator
•One or Two Semesters
•Parents
•Resources & Support
•Permission
•AP Night/Nature of Course
•E-mail lists
•Summer Assignment
•Collaboration
•Choosing textbooks
•Professional Development/Training
•AP Exam
•Colleges & Universities-Credits & Acceptance
•Format
•Preparation
•Professional Organizations & Identify resources
•AP Central
•Syllabus
•AP Designation
•listserve
Resources
Type
Address
Overview
Data
•www.cia.gov/library/publications/theworld-factbook/geos/gz.html
•http://cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
Countries A-Z
•www.atlaspedia.com/online/country_index.htm
Map sites
•http://showmappingworlds.com/
Videos – all units
http://www.learner.org/powerofplace/
*Power of Place
Census Bureau
•http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en
•www.prb.org
•http://demography.anu.edu.au/VirtualLibrary/CensusData.html
Population data
AP Central
•apcentral.collegeboard.com
•apcentral.collegeboard.com/humangeo
Course description, teaching tips, sample syllabi,
lesson plans, articles, teacher resources, discussion
groups, newsletter, information on exam, sample freeresponse and scoring guides
Reading Assignments
•The World is Flat, Thomas Friedman
•Guns, Germs, & Steele, by Jared Diamond (video)
Global Connections
•www.pbs.org/wghb/globalconnections
•www.nationalgeographic.com/
Textbooks
Kuby, Rubenstein, Knox/Marston, DeBlij, etc.
Multilingual Newspaper
Translator
www.humanits-international.org/newstra/index.html
Teacher Guides
National Council for Geographic Education. The Journal of
CIA. The World Factbook
Provides broad view of the different units of study in
References
de Blij, H.J., and Alexander B. Murphy. Human Geography: Culture, Society, and Space.
7th ed. New York: John Wiley, 2003.
Knox, Paul L., and Sallie A. Marston. Places and Regions in Global Context: Human
Geography. 3rd ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: W.H. Freeman, 2003.
Kuby, Michael, John Harner, and Patricia Gober. Human Geography in Action.3rd ed.
New York: John Wiley, 2004.
National Council for Geographic Education. The Journal of Geography 99, no. 2/3 (MayAugust 2000).
The Power of Place: Geography for the 21st Century series. N.p.: Annenberg/CPB,
2003. Video.
Rubenstein, James M. The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human Geography.
7th ed. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2002.
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