{"id":457,"date":"2016-05-11T14:01:17","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T18:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/vhs\/socialstudies\/mgalal\/?page_id=457"},"modified":"2016-05-11T14:01:17","modified_gmt":"2016-05-11T18:01:17","slug":"ap-human-geography-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.nhvweb.net\/vhs\/socialstudies\/mgalal\/ap-human-geography-2\/","title":{"rendered":"AP Human Geography"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Course Outline<\/h1>\n<p><strong>Geography and Human Geography (Chapter 1)<\/strong><strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>What is human geography?<\/li>\n<li>Basic terminology of geography \u2013 globalization, spatial distribution, 5 themes of geography, perception of places, patterns, distribution, scale, location (absolute and relative), environmental determinism, cultural landscape, sense of place, built environment, possibilism, place, centrality, GIS, diffusion (expansion, contagious, hierarchical, stimulus, relocation), cultural barrier, time-distance decay, mental maps, remote sensing, regions (functional, formal, perceptual), mental maps, sequent occupance, hearths, independent invention<\/li>\n<li>Geographic map skills<\/li>\n<li>Examples of Geographic Activities for Unit One\n<ul>\n<li>Making a world map out of an orange<\/li>\n<li>\u201cDriving Miss Daisy: Analyzing how you get around in town.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cMental Mapping: What the heck is wrong with my brain?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Video \u2013 \u201cWhy are we changing maps?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRegions \u2013 Gotta Do the Zelinsky\u201d and \u201cDid the South Move?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Blog \u2013 student discussion on Unit 1F.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>EXAM I \u2013 Multiple Choice and Free Response<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>II.\u00a0Population Patterns and Processes (Chapters 2-3) (Population &amp; Migration)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Population Models and Theories \u2013 Demographic Transition Model, Gravity Model, Malthusian population issues<\/li>\n<li>Models \u2013 What is a model? Why do geographers use models?<\/li>\n<li>Population Policies \u2013 pro-natal and anti-natal policies, case studies from China, India, Japan and Indonesia<\/li>\n<li>Migration \u2013 internal, external, forced and reasons for migration<\/li>\n<li>Population terminology \u2013 distribution, density, arithmetic and physiologic density, dot maps, megalopolis census, demography, dependency ratio, J-curve, fertility, crude birth rate, crude death rate, total fertility rate, infant mortality, child mortality, natural increase, sex ratios, negative population growth, eugenics, carrying capacity, cohort, natal, demographic momentum, exponential growth, doubling time, age-sex diagrams, mortality types\/rates, step migration, chain migration, intervening opportunity, immigration (internal, external, forced, international), transhumance, activity space, emigration, push\/pull factors, refugees, guest workers, quotas, history of US migration\n<ul>\n<li>Fun times with Hans Rosling!!! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gapminder.org\/\">www.gapminder.org<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Choropleth Maps \u2013 \u201cMapping population issues in Arkansas\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Field Work with AP Environmental Science &#8211; Cemetery Study \u2013 collecting, collating and analyzing mortality data<\/li>\n<li>Age-Sex Diagrams \u2013 \u201cUsing age-sex diagrams\u201d via various web sites such as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.prb.org\/\">www.prb.org<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.census.gov\/\">www.census.gov<\/a>, and others<\/li>\n<li>Demographic Calculations \u2013 calculating RNI, total population, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>EXAM II \u2013 Multiple Choice and Free Response<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>III.\u00a0Cultural Geography &#8211; Geographies of Culture, Language, Religion, Gender, Race, Ethnicity and Sexuality (Chapters 4-7)<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Cultural Patterns and Processes)<\/p>\n<p>Geographies of Local (Folk) and Pop Culture and Cultural Landscapes<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Cultural Terms \u2013 folk and pop culture, local culture, material and nonmaterial culture, built environment, acculturation, assimilation, cultural appropriation, neolocalism, ethnic neighborhoods, commodification, distance decay, time-space compression, placelessness, glocalization, maladaptive diffusion, sequent occupance, architecture, folk foods<\/li>\n<li>Race, Ethnicity, Gender, Identity and Sexuality \u2013 changing US populations of race, racial segregation in cities, invasion and succession, identity and space, cultural identity, sexuality and space, queer theory, women, gender issues, power and space, barrioization<\/li>\n<li>Language terminology \u2013 standard language, dialect, groups, families, isogloss, language (family, group, divergence &amp; convergence), Renfrew hypothesis, Indo-European languages<\/li>\n<li>Language theories &amp; diffusion \u2013 agricultural, dispersal &amp; conquest theories<\/li>\n<li>Modern language issues \u2013 lingua franca, Creole, pidgin, multi-lingual states, sound shifts, Esperanto, linguistic transition zones, official languages,<\/li>\n<li>Linguistic revival, extinct languages, languages laws<\/li>\n<li>Toponymy \u2013 post-colonial, postrevolution, memorial, commodification<\/li>\n<li>Difficulties in mapping cultural regions &#8211; Zelinsky<\/li>\n<li>Religion terminology \u2013 secularism, animism, syncretism, ethnic religion, universalizing religion, proselytizing, monotheism, polytheism, Shamanism, diaspora, sacred sites, pilgrimage, geomancy, reincarnation, social distance<\/li>\n<li>Political Conflict and Religion \u2013 ethnic cleansing, enclave, exclave, jihad, fundamentalism, extremism, Israel and Palestine, Northern Ireland, former Yugoslavia, Horn of Africa<\/li>\n<li>Christianity (Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, others), Islam (Sunni, Shi\u2019a, Sufi), Judaism (Orthodox, Conservative, Reform), Buddhism (Theravada, Mahayana), Sikhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shintoism and other religions<\/li>\n<li>Sacred architecture, sacred space, sacred directions, burial practices, Feng Shui,<\/li>\n<li>Issues not in the primary textbook &#8211; Characteristics of Popular and Folk Culture, Ethnocentrism, Cultural Relativism, Homogeneity, Heterogeneity, Material and Nonmaterial Culture, Housing types<\/li>\n<li>Examples of Geographic Activities for Unit Three<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cToponyms: Seriously! Possum Grape and Booger Hollow?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Video \u2013 \u201cIn French, Please!!\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Pop \u2013vs- Soda \u2013 students use the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popvssoda.com\/\">www.popvssoda.com<\/a> webpage to attempt to define cultural regions using linguistic differences among users of soft drinks<\/li>\n<li>\u201cEnglish Will Be the Global Lingua Franca of the Future\u201d \u2013 Classroom debate (pro and con) over this statement<\/li>\n<li>\u201cIs Your Religion What You Think It Is?\u201d \u2013 Students use a SelectSmart.com webpage to learn about 27 different religions<\/li>\n<li>\u201cRe-mapping Africa: Creating non-Colonial Boundaries\u201d \u2013 Students work in groups to create new political boundaries in Africa using cultural data. Students decide if boundaries should be based more on ethnolinguistic, religious, tribal and\/or other cultural characteristics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>K. EXAM III \u2013 Multiple Choice and Free Response<\/p>\n<p><strong>IV.\u00a0The Political Imprint (Chapter 8) (Political Organization of Space)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Political terminology \u2013 sovereignty, territorial integrity, boundary types, evolution of boundaries, territorial morphology types, nation, state, nation-state, stateless nation, Conference of Berlin, mercantilism, Peace of Westphalia, irredentism, enclave, exclave, theocracy, landlocked, centripetal\/centrifugal forces, unitary\/federal states, core, periphery, semiperiphery, tribalism, colonialism, neocolonialism, electoral geography, gerrymandering, reapportionment, majority-minority district, forward capital, primate city, median-line principle, EEZs, law of the sea, devolution, supranationalism, geopolitics, gateway state, Nunavut, raison d\u2019\u00eatre, shatterbelt, Balkanization, annexation, confederation,<\/li>\n<li>Territorial Morphology and Boundaries \u2013 all terms<\/li>\n<li>Political Theories \u2013 Heartland, Rimland, Organic, World Systems Analysis<\/li>\n<li>Examples of Geographic Activities for Unit Four<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cMapping Electoral Change\u201d \u2013 Students map electoral changes using web resources. Major focus during national elections. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redistrictinggame.com\/\">www.redistrictinggame.com<\/a><\/li>\n<li>\u201cDevolution and Supranationalism\u201d \u2013 Students read and use case studies to apply these termsE. EXAM IV \u2013 Multiple Choice and Free Response<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>V.<\/strong>\u00a0<strong>Agriculture (Chapter 11) (Agricultural and Rural Land Use)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>\u00a0Agricultural terminology \u2013 organic agriculture, economic activities (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, quinary), plant\/animal domestication, hunting\/gathering, subsistence farming, shifting agriculture (milpa, swidden, patch, slash and burn), land survey systems (metes &amp; bounds, long-lot, township-&amp;-range, rectangular land), nucleated and dispersed settlements, plantation agriculture, extractive activities, luxury crops, staple crops, cash crops, dairying, livestock, ranching, Mediterranean agriculture, organic agriculture, truck farm, market gardening, yields, double-cropping, transhumance, illegal drug crops, sustainable agriculture, aquaculture, favela, debt-for-nature swap, intertillage, feedlot, loss of productive farmland<\/li>\n<li>Agricultural Revolutions \u2013 1<sup>st<\/sup>, 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, 3<sup>rd<\/sup>, biotechnology, biogenetics, cloning, genetically modified foods<\/li>\n<li>Intensive and Extensive Agriculture<\/li>\n<li>Plant Origins<\/li>\n<li>Agricultural Models and Major Concepts &#8211; von Th\u00fcnen\u2019s Model, Agribusiness, Vertical Integration, Commercial Agriculture, Green Revolution, Organic Agriculture, Genetically Modified Foods\/Organisms (GMF\/O)<\/li>\n<li>Geographies of Illegal Drugs and Alcohol<\/li>\n<li>Gender issues in agriculture<\/li>\n<li>Examples of Geographic Activities for Unit Five\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWhere is What Grown?\u201d \u2013 Students use the 21<sup>st<\/sup> Edition of <em>Goode\u2019s Atlas<\/em> to ascertain what crops are grown where and in what quantities<\/li>\n<li>Scivee.tv videos \u2013 corn, potatoes, genomes and cotton<\/li>\n<li>\u201cVideos\u201d &#8211; <em>The Butcher<\/em> \u2013 study of meat processing and the rise of agribusiness and <em>Harvesters<\/em> \u2013 study of modern agricultural mechanization and hybridization of crops to allow for machine harvest<\/li>\n<li>\u201cVideos\u201d \u2013 <em>The Meatrix I, II and II\u00bd, Grocery Store Wars<\/em><\/li>\n<li>\u201cField Trip\u201d \u2013 time and logistics permitting \u2013 students visit a Tyson chicken slaughterhouse to see applications of agricultural geographic conceptsH. EXAM V \u2013 Multiple Choice and Free Response<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><strong>VI.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Urban Geography (Chapters 9) (Cities and Urban Land Use)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Urban terminology \u2013 urban morphology, agricultural surplus, urban hierarchy, urban function, Sunbelt phenomenon, hinterland, site, situation, central business district, suburbs, exurbs, edge cities, hamlet, village, town, city, metropolis, megalopolis, redlining, blockbusting, white flight, gated communities, tear-downs, McMansions, covenants, zoning, gentrification, NIMBY, DINKs, suburbanization, rank-size rule, basic\/nonbasic sectors, multiplier effect, urban specialization, range of sale (economic reach), threshold, nesting, centrality, megacities, world cities, tenement, census, in-filling, sprawl, bid rent, peak land value intersection, informal economy<\/li>\n<li>Urban Models \u2013 Central Place Theory, Concentric Zone, Sector, Multiple Nuclei, Urban Realms, World City, Latin American, Southeast Asian, African<\/li>\n<li>Gender Issues in Urban Geography<\/li>\n<li>Additional Texts will be used in this unit<\/li>\n<li>Examples of Geographic Activities for Unit Six\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cWho is Moving Where?\u201d \u2013 students study shifting U.S. urban patterns using <a href=\"http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2010\/06\/04\/migration-moving-wealthy-interactive-counties-map.html\">http:\/\/www.forbes.com\/2010\/06\/04\/migration-moving-wealthy-interactive-counties-map.html<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Video &#8211; Veggie Tales (did he say, \u201cVeggie Tales?!) \u2013 Gated Communities<\/li>\n<li>\u201cThree Classic Models of Urban Structure\u201d \u2013 students compare and contrast the three classic urban models<\/li>\n<li>\u201cUrban Geography using the NFL, NHL, MLB and the NBA\u201d \u2013 students map professional sports franchises in 1950 and again today to see the shifts in urban population and patterns.<\/li>\n<li>\u201cVideo\u201d &#8211; Power of Place Video segments on Boston and Chicago<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>F. EXAM VI \u2013 Multiple Choice and Free Response<\/p>\n<p><strong>VII.\u00a0\u00a0Economic Geography &#8211; Development and Industry and Services (Chapters 10, 12) (Industrialization and Development)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Development terminology \u2013 commodity chain, GNP, GDP, GNI, formal and informal economy, HDI, PPP, neo-colonialism, barriers of economic development, export processing zones, maquiladoras, special economic zone (SEZ), NAFTA, government policy and development, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), microcredit<\/li>\n<li>Industry and Services terminology \u2013 industrial revolution, locational interdependence, location theory (agglomeration, deglomeration, transportation costs, labor costs, raw materials), globalization, deindustrialization, outsourcing, offshore, Fordist, post-Fordist, just-in-time delivery, global division of labor, intermodal connections, break-of-bulk point,<\/li>\n<li>Additional Texts &#8211; comparative advantage, friction of distance, distance decay, footloose industries, location theory, substitution principle, variable costs, bid rent, zonal costs, isotim, inputs, economic sectors (primary, secondary, tertiary, quaternary, quinary), weight-gaining and weight-losing industries<\/li>\n<li>Economic\/Industrial\/Development Models and Theories \u2013 Weber\u2019s Least Cost Theory, Dependency Theory, Rostow\u2019s Modernization Model, Liberal Model, World Systems (three-tier)Theory, Structuralist Theory, Hotelling\u2019s Model<\/li>\n<li>Global Shifts in Economic Geography<\/li>\n<li>Examples of Geographic Activities for Unit Seven<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>Exercise &#8211; \u201cWhere Do I Manufacture?\u201d \u2013 Isotim exercise where students have to calculate the best location for a manufacturing plant<\/li>\n<li>Exercise &#8211; \u201cThirsty Town\u201d \u2013 Where would a beer or cola manufacturer locate?<\/li>\n<li>Exercise &#8211; \u201cWhy Don\u2019t We Have a Buffalo Wild Wings?\u201d<\/li>\n<li>\u201cOutsourcing \u2013 Who is doing what and where?\u201d \u2013 A look at global outsourcing<\/li>\n<li>Exercise &#8211; \u201cTransport and Shipping Modes\u201d \u2013 An exercise for students to determine what products are shipped cheapest by which transport mode<\/li>\n<li>\u201cVideo\u201d \u2013 Outsourcing<\/li>\n<li>\u201cVideo\u201d \u2013 Economic Geography &#8211; Trade<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>F. EXAM VII \u2013 Multiple Choice and Free Response<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Course Outline Geography and Human Geography (Chapter 1)\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives) What is human geography? 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