Course Details
Human Geography (Grade 9-12)
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Course Information
- Subject Area
- Social Sciences and History
- State Course Code
- 04049
- Length
- One Semester
- Total Hours
- 118
In Human Geography: Our Global Identity, you will explore the diverse ways that different people have physically influenced the world around them and how they, in turn, are changed by their surroundings. Discover how beliefs and ideas spread through time, shaping and changing the cultures they encounter. In this course, students will gain tremendous insight into human geography and understand the important relationship between humans and their environments.
Learning Goals
Students will:
- Investigate how culture, religion, and language influence our lives.
- Explore how the world around us shapes who we are.
- Analyze the effects of land on human populations and the effects of people on the land.
- Study cultural patterns and processes of various world regions.
- Study language geography and the distribution of language throughout history.
- Examine the roles of ethnicity, race, and gender in human geography.
- Understand basic aspects of political geography.
- Analyze agriculture's role in human geography.
Choose Curriculum
Human Geography
How do language, religion, and landscape affect the physical environment? How do geography, weather, and location affect customs and lifestyles? Students will explore the diverse ways in which people affect the world around them and how they are affected by their surroundings. Students will discover how ideas spread and cultures form, and learn how beliefs and architecture are part of a larger culture complex. In addition to introducing students to the field of Human Geography, this course will teach students how to analyze humans and their environments.
Online
Items
| Name | Kind | ISBN | Returnable | Shared |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Human Geography | Online Class | No | No |
Timeline
Unit 3: Cultural Patterns & Processes
Unit 5: Religion
Unit 7: Political Geography
Unit 8: Agriculture