Advanced Placement Human Geography is a challenging two-semester college-level course geared for 10^th grade students who are passionate about learning more about people and how geography shapes people.  Human Geography is the study of the way that humans live in, interact with, and impact the world. 

Content is presented thematically rather than regionally and is organized around the discipline’s main subfields: economic geography, cultural geography, political geography, and urban geography. The approach is spatial and problem oriented. Case studies are drawn from all world regions, with an emphasis on understanding the world in which we live today. Historical information serves to enrich analysis of the impacts of phenomena such as globalization, colonialism, and human– environment relationships on places, regions, cultural landscapes, and patterns of interaction. Specific topics with which students engage include the following:

• problems of economic development and cultural change
• consequences of population growth, changing fertility rates, and international migration
• impacts of technological innovation on transportation, communication, industrialization, and other aspects of human life
• struggles over political power and control of territory
• conflicts over the demands of ethnic minorities, the role of women in society, and the inequalities between developed and developing economies
• explanations of why location matters to agricultural land use, industrial development, and urban problems
• the role of climate change and environmental abuses in shaping the human landscapes on Earth