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Shaffner Office Hours: by appointment or during lunch Room: 2003A  \nE-Mails: [david_r_shaffner@mcpsmd.org](david_r_shaffner@mcpsmd.org)  \nCourse Description:  \nThe Advanced Placement Human Geography course introduces students to the systematic study of patterns and processes that have shaped human understanding, and the use and alteration of the Earth’s surface. Students learn to employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to analyze human socioeconomic organization and its environmental consequences. Students will also learn about the methods and tools geographers use in their research and applications.  \nContent will be presented thematically, rather than regionally and will be organized around the discipline’s main subfields: economic geography, cultural geography, political geography, and urban geography. There isan emphasis on understanding the world in which students live today. Use of historical information will serve to enrich analysis of the impacts of globalization, colonialism, and human‐environmental relationships.  \nBy the end of this course students will be more geoliterate, more engaged in contemporary global issues, and more multicultural in their viewpoints. Students will develop skills in approaching problems geographically, thinking critically, interpreting cultural landscapes, and applying geographic concepts. Students will learn to see geography as a discipline relevant to the world in which they live, as a source of ideas for identifying, clarifying, and solving problems, and as a key component in building global citizenship, and environmental stewardship.  \nSkills:  \n􀁸 Analyze (by describing, explaining, and comparing) geographic theories, approaches, concepts, processes, or models in theoretical and applied context  \n􀁸 Analyze geographic patterns (by describing and explaining), relationships, and outcomes in applied contexts  \n􀁸 Analyze and interpret quantitative geographic data represented in maps, tables, charts, graphs, satellite images, and infographics (by identifying, describing, explaining, and comparing) .  \n􀁸 Analyze and interpret qualitative geographic information represented in maps, images (e.g. satellite, photographs, cartoons), and landscapes (by identifying, describing, explaining, and comparing) .  \n􀁸 Analyze geographic theories, approaches, concepts, processes and models across geographic scales to explain spatial relationships (by identifying and explaining)  \n􀁸 Analyze the ways cultural values, political policies, and economic forces work together to create particular landscapes (by describing and explaining)  \n􀁸 Define regions and evaluate the regionalization process  \nTopics/Units of Study:  \nI. 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