AP Human Geography Course Description
The AP Human Geography course introduces students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth’s surface. Students learn to employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine human socioeconomic organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their research and applications.
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Unit 1: Geography: Nature & Its Perspectives
Unit 2: Population
- UN: Population Division
- Gapminder: World
- UN: Demographic Profiles
- Population Pyramids: International Data Base
- World Bank: All Indicators
- Birth Rate: World Bank
- Death Rate: World Bank
- Natural Increase Rate: World Bank
- Visualizing World Births & Deaths
- Total Population: World Bank
- World Health Organization: Countries
- WHO: Global Health Observatory
- Global Migration Flows
- Shrinking Population: How Japan Fell Out of Love with Love
- FEMA Flood Map Service Center
- 75 Years of Major Refugee Crises
- UNHCR: Against All Odds (Refugee Game)
- Refugee Project
Unit 3: Cultural Patterns and Processes
- Smithsonian Institute: Folkways Recordings
- Hungry Planet Portraits
- One World, Many Voices: Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage
- TED Talk: What Americans Can Learn From Other Food Cultures
- Where Children Sleep
- PBS: Race - The Power of an Illusion
- Great Language Game
- Endangered Languages
- Ethnologue
- Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger
- Convention on the Prevention & Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
- 20th Century Genocides
- Ralph Lemkin's History of Genocide and Colonialism
Unit 4: Political Organization of Space
Unit 5: Agricultural & Rural Land Use
- Country Indicators: Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
- Nutrition Landscape: World Health Organization
- Food Insecurity in the United States
- National Geographic: This Tiny Country Feeds the World
- Global Food Security Index
- FAO: Food Security & Nutrition
- GMO OMG on Amazon Prime
- Are Malthus's Predicted 1798 Food Shortages Coming True?