GT AP Human Geography

(Enrollment Based)

Course No. SS1GPA

Semesters: 2; Credits: 1

Prerequisite: Freshman Classification

Satisfies World Geography Credit when taken in its entirety

* Must meet qualification for GT placement

GT AP Human Geography is designed to apply gifted education practices in order to appropriately challenge and develop the potential of gifted learners. GT AP Human Geography is an Advanced Placement course that can substitute for World Geography or Advanced World Geography and is equivalent to an introductory college-level course. The course introduces students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth's surface. Students will learn to employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to examine socioeconomic organization and its environmental consequences. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their research and applications. The curriculum reflects the goals of the National Geography Standards. This course will prepare students to take the AP Human Geography exam, which may allow them to qualify for college credit.

* According to Texas Education Code §113.56, students who opt to "level down" from AP Human Geography after only one semester are only allowed to receive elective course credit for the fall semester. The elective credit a student receives for the first semester of AP Human will be a weighted elective credit with whatever grade the student earned during the fall semester of AP Human. The student will need to demonstrate mastery of first semester World Geography TEKS (options provided by counselors) in order to satisfy graduation requirements for the freshman Social Studies credit.