Advanced Placement Human Geography - NCGE - National Council for Geographic Education

AP Human Geography Resources

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Ninth graders and AP® Human Geography Top Ten List

by Sharon Shelerud

This column is designed to help ninth graders be more successful in AP Human Geography. Twice a month I will present a top ten list focused on some aspect of Human Geography and ideas that I use to help ninth graders succeed in APHG. If you have any suggestions for future columns, please contact Sharon Shelerud at sharonmn@aol.com

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AP Human Geography Course Description

Advanced Placement ® Human Geography is a college level course designed to represent a systematic study of the earth & its inhabitants. APHG mirrors a typical undergraduate level Introduction to Human Geography course and covers the following seven units: the geographic perspective; population; cultural patterns and processes; political organization of space; agricultural and rural land use; industrialization and economic development, and cities and urban land use. This course should help students understand how cultural, economic and political systems relate to the distribution of human activities, the nature of places, and people’s interaction with their environment.

In addition to mastering the course content, each student should be prepared to pass the national college-level Advanced Placement Examination in May. Students may be eligible for college credit for successfully completing the exam. This course should prepare students to enroll in intermediate and advanced level human geography courses at the college level.