RESOURCE via Allison Hunt: 2013 Additions to AP HuGe Course Description

Additions to 2013 AP Human Geography Course Curriculum

Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives
- Identification of major world regions

Population
- Education added under geographical analysis of population
- Environmental impacts of population change on water use, food supplies, biodiversity, the atmosphere, and climate
- Specifies types of migration (transnational, internal, chain, step, seasonal agriculture, and rural to urban)
- Asylum seekers, internally displaced persons
- Instead of just socioeconomic consequences adds to that culture, environmental, and political along with immigration policies and remittance

Cultural Patterns and Processes
- Globalization and the effects of technology on cultures
- For religion specifies sacred space
- For ethnicity adds nationalism
- Cultural conflicts, and law and policy to protect culture
- The formation of identity and place making
- Specifies indigenous people under cultural landscapes and cultural identity

Political Organization of Space
- ASEAN specified as an example of a regional alliance in the description
- Political power
- Function of boundaries
- In addition to federal and unitary states adds confederations, centralized government, and forms of governance
- Adds spatial relationships between political patterns and gender
- Political ecology is used as a term
- Fall of communism and the legacy of the Cold War
- Patterns of local, regional, and metropolitan governance
- Specifies the terms centripetal and centrifugal forces
- Adds armed conflicts and war to terrorism

Agriculture, Food Production, and Rural Land Use
- Title of unit adds food production
- Specifies agriculture types (subsistence, cash cropping, plantation, mixed farming, monoculture, pastoralism, ranching, forestry, fishing, and aquaculture)
- Adds roles of women in agricultural production and farming communities
- Specifies environmental issues (soil degradation, overgrazing, river and aquifer depletion, animal wastes, and extensive fertilizer and pesticide use)
- Crop rotation, value-added specialty foods, regional appellations, fair trade, and eat local food movements

Industrialization and Economic Development
- In the description talks about growth poles and uses as examples Silicon Valley, the Research Triangle, universities, and medical centers
- Specifies Wallerstein and Rostow
- Specifies measures of development (GDP, GDP per capita, HDI, GII, Gini index changes in fertility and mortality, access to health care, education, utilities, and sanitation)
- The rise of service and high technology economies
- Manufacturing in newly industrialized countries

Cities and Urban Land Use
- Specifies site and situation characteristics for beginning cities
- Borchert’s epochs of urban transportation development
- Primate cities
- Founders of models are specified for concentric zone, sector, and multiple nuclei
- Galactic city model
- Models of cities in Latin America, North Africa and the Middle East, sub-Saharan Africa, East Asia, South Asia
- For urban planning and design includes as examples gated communities, New Urbanism, and smart-growth policies
- For edge cities specifies boomburgs, greenfields, and uptowns
- Housing and insurance discrimination, and access to food in stores
- Zones of abandonment, disamenity, and gentrification
- Problems with suburban sprawl and urban sustainability are emphasized- land and energy use, cost of expanding public education services, home financing, and debt crises
- Urban environmental issues- transportation, sanitation, air and water quality, remediation of brownfields, and farmland protection