Explore patterns and processes that shape human understanding, use, and alteration of Earth's surface.
← Back to AP CoursesAP 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.
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You'll learn about the tools and methods geographers use in their study of places.
You'll explore the patterns associated with human populations.
You'll focus on how and why language, religion, and other cultural practices spread over space and time.
You'll build on your knowledge of populations and cultural patterns as you learn about the political organization of the world.
You'll learn where humans first developed agriculture and how farming practices spread throughout the world.
You'll explore the origins and influences of urbanization, examining cities across the world and the role of those cities in globalization.
You'll study the origins and influences of industrialization, along with the role industrialization plays in economic development.