World Geography Advanced (formerly Pre-AP World Geography)

(Standard)

Course No. SS1QA

Semesters: 2; Credits: 1

Prerequisite: Freshman Classification

Recommended: Pre-AP/Advanced Social Studies Courses

This course is designed to prepare students for entry into Advanced Placement (AP) courses and will explore grade-level standards to a greater degree of depth and complexity. In World Geography, students will examine people, places, and environments at local, regional, national, and international levels from a geographic perspective. Topics of study will include aspects of physical, economic and cultural geography. Students will describe the influence of geography on events of the past and present with emphasis on contemporary issues. Problem-solving and decision-making skills are developed as students learn how to ask and answer geographic questions.