WHat is AP Human Geo?

Course Description 

AP Human Geography introduces students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have  shaped human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth’s surface. Students employ spatial concepts and  landscape analysis to examine human social organization and its environmental consequences. Through  the examination of world cultures, human institutions, the effects of new technologies, local, regional and  World Geography, students will investigate the patterns and processes that have shaped the human  understanding of the planet on which we live. They also learn about the methods and tools geographers  use in their science and practice.  

What does this mean? Basically, this course is about the world we live in. It will briefly cover some  historical aspects but this only serves as a means to understand the now. We will learn to develop an  understanding for people, cultures, and places by examining specific units in population geography,  

cultural geography, political geography, agricultural and rural geography, economic geography, and urban  geography. We will examine the why of the where.