Course title

SOC8000

Pre-requisite

N/A

Course description

This Advanced Placement course is designed to develop a deeper understanding of Geography and it’s nature and perspectives; population and migration; cultural patterns and processes; political organization of space; agriculture; food production and rural land use; industrialization and economic development and cities and urban land use. This understanding is advanced through a combination of selective factual knowledge and appropriate analytical skills. The course emphasizes the interpretation of maps and analyzing geospatial data; understanding the implications of associations and networks among phenomena in places; recognizes and the interpretation of the relationships among patterns and processes at different scales of analysis; defining regions and evaluating the regionalization process and well as the characterization and analyzing the changing interconnections among places. AP Human Geography prepares students for; and students are expected to take the AP Human Geography Examination. Elective course.

School Country

United States

School state

Arizona

School city

Avondale

School Address

1481 N. Eliseo Felix Jr. Way

School zip code

85323

Requested competency code

Social Science

Date submitted

Approved

Yes

Approved competency code

  • SSCI
  • 1 year of other Social Science

Approved date

Online / Virtual

No