AP® Human Geography
Syllabus
Course Overview
The course is structured according to the course outline found in the most recent AP®
Human Geography Course Description published by the College Board. There are seven
units of study. At the beginning of each unit, students receive a unit calendar that
indicates the topics and activities for each unit, the reading assignments, assessment dates,
and other information about the unit.
Textbook
Rubenstein, James M. The Cultural Landscape: An Introduction to Human
Geography, 8th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2005.
Additional textbooks are used to prepare lessons.
Course Outline and Planner
Topic
Geography: Its
Nature and
Perspectives
Population
Cultural Patterns
and Processes
Political
Organization of
Space
Semester Exam
Agricultural Rural
Land Use
Industrialization and
Economic
Development
Cities and Urban
Land Use
Exam Review
Multiple-Choice
Coverage on the Exam
readings from the
main textbbook
C1: The course provides a
systematic study of human
geography, including the following
topics in the Course Outline and
Planner
time used for unit
5%-10%
Chapter 1
4 Weeks
13%-17%
13%-17%
Chapters 2 and 3
Chapters 4-7
5 Weeks
5 Weeks
13%-17%
Chapter 8
5 Weeks
50%
13%-17%
Chapters 1-8
Chapters 10 and 14
4 Weeks
13%-17%
Chapters 9, 11, and
14
4 Weeks
13%-17%
Chapters 12 and 13
5 Weeks
100%
Chapters 1-14
2 Weeks
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Unit Calendars
Unit 1: Geography: Its Nature and Perspectives
Week
Readings
Subtopic
Class
Activities
1. Review of
syllabus
2. Philosophic
and
definitional
terms of
geography
3. Traditions of
geography
1. PowerPoint
presentations
on space,
maps, and
human
interactions
2. Video:
Physical
Geography
series (CNN)
1. Five themes
of
geography
2. Study of
areas using
the themes
1
Pages 6-12
Why do
Geographers
Address
Where
Things Are?
2
Pages 15-29
Why is Each
Point on
Earth
Unique?
3
Pages 30-40
Why are
Different
Places
Similar?
4
Pages 4, 14,
21, 33, 34,
41
 Case Study
 Contemporary
Geographic
Tools
 Global
Forces, Local
Impacts
 Key Terms
 Summary
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1. Map
laboratory:
Constructing
Maps
2. Case study on
map
projections
3. Map 101
(Nystrom
resources and
atlas on web)
C2: The course teaches the use of
spatial concepts and landscape
analysis to examine human
organization of space
homework
assessment
Map studies
Quiz on terms
packet
and traditions if
Comparisons of geography
ways to study
geography
Definitions on
location and
place
Graphic
organizers on
concepts and
subtopics
Primary source
(DBQ) analysis
on writings of
early mapmakers
Using various
maps to locate
the same area
Develop a
presentation on
maps
GIS freeresponse
question for
practice using a
photograph, a
drawing, and a
short excerpt
from an
advertisement
Practice freeresponse similar
to that found on
the AP exam
Practice essays:
narrative,
expository,
persuasive,
compare/
contrast, and a
cause/effect
answers required
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C4: The course teaches students how to use and interpret maps,
data sets, and geographic models: GIS, aerial photographs, and
satellite image; though not required, can be used effectively in
the course
Unit 2: Population
Week
Readings
Subtopic
1
Pages 47-52
Where is the
World’s
Population
Distributed?
1. Special Purpose Map
Laboratory
2. Graph reading and
interpretation
3. Speculation discussions
2
Pages 53-56
Where Has
the World’s
Population
Increased?
1. Demographics vocabulary:
define and use
2. Readings from Malthus
and Riccardo
3. Map Laboratory on
Projected Populations
based on current rates
4. Video: CNN, Population
Crisis
3
Pages 57-68
1. Mapping laboratory:
Nystrom kit
2. Construction of population
pyramids; and other
graphic interpretations of
lists and charts
Accumulation
of an annotated
bibliography on
population
trends
4
Pages 69-76
Why is
population
Increasing
at Different
Rates in
Different
Countries?
Why Might
the World
Face an
Overpopulation
Problem?
DBQ from
writing of
Malthus and
Riccardo;
political cartoons
on population
growth in regions
Multiple-choice
practice questions
on population
from the AP
exam
1. Mapping laboratory:
internet search for
declining resources in
countries with the greatest
population increases
2. Photographs of earth from
satellites and aerial photos
to demonstrate the earth’s
temperature and energy
produced in developed
countries
Outline of
topics from
hypothesis and
labeling of note
cards to form
annotated
bibliography
Test on graphic—
maps, graphs,
photos, political
cartoons in
multiple-choice
and free response
formats
5
Page 46, 65,
68, 77, 78,
79. and 80
Case Study,
Contemporary
Geographic
Tools,
Global
ForcesLocal
Impacts,
Summary,
Key Terms,
Internet
Study
1.
Writing an
introduction and
structure of a
research paper
dependent on
the hypothesis
(type of essay)
Making review
cards: what is
salient and what
is not in
preparation for
the AP exam
Can the students
sort out facts?
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Class Activities
2.
3.
4.
PowerPoint presentations
on population
Internet activity using
www.worldgeography.ab
c-clio.com
Videos from PrenticeHall on regions of Africa,
Southeast Asia, and Latin
America to demonstrate
the effect of human
organization of space
Discussion of population
decline in developed
nations
homework
Packet on
statistics and
graphic plotting
Research on
statistics and
mapping
Forming a
hypothesis versus
a thesis
Research sources
for local statistics
versus state and
national numbers
assessment
Multiple-choice
practice
Forming a thesis
statement for a
question
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C3: The course teaches spatial
relationships at different scales
ranging from the local to the global
Unit 3: Cultural Patterns and Processes
Week
Readings
Subtopic
Class Activities
1
Pages 115139
Folk and
Popular
Culture
1. Role of housing, food,
clothing, environment,
media, and history on folk
and popular culture
2. Team presentations on
cultures in specific
regions
3. Globe-Pearson video
series on culture
2
Pages 147182
Language
1. “Family tree” of language
groups
2. Discussion on the
preservation of native
language
3. Globalization of language
for business
3
Pages 184222
Religion
4
Pages 225259
Ethnicity
5
Pages 116,
131, 138,
142, 143,
148,176,
177, 178,
180, 181,
182, 185,
212, , 215,
219, 221,
222,
Clashing of
Cultures
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1.
Video Series on World
Religions
2. Encyclopedia of World
Religions
3. Passages on religions and
religious practices as a
cause of conflict in world
regions
1. Ethnicity as a factor to
unite and divide a nation
2. Internet activity on
ethnicity in historical
context, i.e., genocide,
nationalism, war,
revolution
1. Cultural diffusion
PowerPoint presentation
2. Minorities in the US,
New York Times
video/newspaper series
3. Quebec French
movement; Hispanic
Spanish in the US; Dalai
Lama in China; Rwanda;
Dafar; Kurds in Iraq from
Internet activity to find
periodical acticles
homework
Photo search on
the internet of
assigned
cultural groups
Effect of
Western media
on folk cultures
Research to
graph
distribution of
languages
globally
Develop a
report using
appropriate
vocabulary on
two religious
wars
Personal family
tree
Essay: On one
area in conflict
because of
ethnicity
Use articles
form internet
search to find
similar reasons
for the impact
of religious,
language, or
ethnic
minorities in a
country or
region
assessment
Free response
questions on
changes in folk
culture by popular
culture and the
media in less
developed regions
Multiple-choice
questions on
language and
development of
language
groups/words
through
economics and
the media
Test using maps
and other
graphics and
terminology for
free response
questions
Debate on
“superiority” and
“inferiority”
labeling
Test using articles
as a DBQ exam
with multiplechoice (factual)
and free response
(interpretive)
answers
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Unit 4: Political Organization of Space
Week
1
Readings
Pages 263269
Subtopic
Class Activities
1. Development of the state
Where are
as a concept
States Located?
2
Pages 270280
Why Do
Boundaries
Cause
Problems?
3
Pages 281287
Why Do States
Cooperate with
Each Other?
4
Pages 288291
Why Has
Terrorism
Increased?
5
Pages 261,
162, 285,
286, 292.
293, 294
Case Study,
Summary, Key
Terms,
Thinking
Geographically,
Contemporary
Geographic
Tools, Global
Forces/ Local
Impacts
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2. Problems of defining
states
3. World: A Television
History, The NationState Video
4. Map laboratory: Nystrom
kit, political boundaries
1. Natural v cultural
boundaries: mapping
boundaries on a physical
relief map
2. Shapes of states outlining
national borders
3. Superficial borders within
nations
1. Military alliances
2.Political alliances
3.Economic alliances
4.Timeline
5.Chart reasons for various
alliances and impact of
those alliances in
historical and global
context
1. Terrorism by
Individuals: Developing
a Profile
2. Terrorism by
Organizations, charting
dates, affiliation,
actions, long-term and
short-term effects
3. State support for
terrorism: mapping
countries by support
and impact of action
1. Mapping laboratory:
changing borders in
Europe in the 20th
century
2. Concept of the state in
Europe and the EU:
charting the
characteristics of a state
3. Viewing satellite photos
homework
Map of Europe
with political
boundaries
Map of Spain,
pre-1492 with
states
Reading on the
border between
France and
Germany from
1914-1946.
Highlight
rationale for
changes
Readings on
United Nations
NATO
Neutrality
(from source
book, Readings
in World
History)
assessment
Test: Multiplechoice with at
least 50% from
the AP exam on
political space
Test: Using a
map of the
Europe and
numbers as
labels, state the
probable
rationale for the
shape of the
countries
Quiz: multiplechoice questions
on multi-national
alliances and
organizations
Internet search
for biographies
of known
terrorists
Free response test
on terrorism as
an action and
justifications for
the actions
Essay: Positive
and Negative
Aspects of
NAFTA
Graphic Skills
Test with
multiple-choice
questions for
interpretation of
charts, maps, and
data sets
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Unit 5: Agriculture and Rural Land Use
Week
1
Readings
Pages 333345
Subtopic
Where Did
Agriculture
Originate?
Where Are
Agricultural
Regions in
Less
Developed
Countries?
Class Activities
1. Timeline:
2.
3.
4.
2
Pages 347363
Where are
Agricultural
Regions in
More
Developed
Regions? Why
Do Farmers
Face Economic
Difficulty?
3
Pages 475497
Why Are
Resources
Being
Depleted?
Why Are
Resources
Being
Polluted?
4
Pages 498507
Why Are
Resources
Renewable?
Why Can
Resources Be
Conserved?
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Development of
Agriculture
World: A
Television Series,
The River
Civilizations (PBS)
PowerPoint
presentation:
Agriculture
Mapping laboratory:
Indicate agricultural
regions using a key
to display time
periods and level of
development
(Nystrom kit)
1. List and describe
stages of agricultural
development to
agribusiness
2. Develop a key for each
stage and apply on a
physical relief map
3. Video: The
Depression
(Schlesinger)
4. Video: TVA
(American Experience)
1. From a list of
resources, give the
cause and impact of
pollution and depletion
of each
2. Presentation in pairs of
a resource (assigned)
using transparencies
3. Map laboratory: key for
symbols of resources
and another for status
of resources
1. Video: Resources
(CNN)
2. PowerPoint
presentation:
Conservation of
Natural Resources
3. Debate: Renewable?
Conservation?
Alternative Resources?
homework
assessment
Pictorial
representations
of stages of
agricultural
development
Test: Free
Response to
questions on
development stages
of agriculture and
location on a map
Chart: You are a
farmer, What
difficulties do
you face in
maintaining your
annual income,
how might your
overcome each
one?
Test: Map—locate
areas of less and
more development;
label with name of
state; key for type
of agriculture
(nomadic,
subsistence, mixed,
etc.)
Develop a chart
using the
resources given
in the readings
and class; major
countries of
supply; status of
supply; possible
solution to
depletion and/or
pollution
Internet research
for facts on
debate topic
Free Response
test—resources,
problems,
alternative
solutions
Debate using rubric
and format of
process
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Unit 6: Industrialization and Economic Development
Week
Readings
1
Pages 297320
2
Pages 321329
Pages 369393
3
Pages 393400
Subtopic
Class Activities
1. Charting:
Why Does
Development:
Development
Economic, Social,
Vary Among
and Demographic
Countries?
Indicators of
Where Are More
Development
and Less
2. Venn Diagram: Less
Developed
Developed v More
Countries
Developed Countries
Distributed?
3. Mapping laboratory:
political map to
Where Does
indicate gender and
Level of
development
Development
(Nystrom kit)
Vary by Gender?
1. Factors of selfWhy Do Less
sufficiency,
Developed
international trade,
Countries Face
and fiancé in
Obstacles to
development search at
Development?
www.worldgeograph
Where Did
y.abc-clio.com
Industry
2. Mapping laboratory:
Originate?
locate countries with
Where is
various levels of
industry and make a
Industry
key based on the
Distributed?
levels (Nystrom kit)
Why Do
3.
PowerPoint
Industries Have
presentation: Industry
Different
Distributions?
1. Chart needs to develop
Why Do
industry, obstacles to
Industries Face
needs, possible
Problems?
2.
4
Pages 310,
326, 492,
494, 508
Cleaning Up
After
Communism in
Eastern Europe
Debt Service in
Latin America
Climate Changes
Water Loss
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solutions
Video: World: A
Television History
(PBS)
1. Student Presentations
2. Student Generated
Graphics
homework
Use the graphics
developed in
class to write one
paragraph on
each using key
terms of the unit
assessment
Free response
quiz: items from
the AP exam on
development and
industry
Chart: Industry—
Where; Type,
Resources
Needed, Products
Imported,
Products
Exported,
Difference in
Percent of GNP
Multiple-Choice
test on Statistics
and Key Terms
Essay: You are
Country X and
wish to make a
product. What
resources do you
need, which to
you have? And
how do you
procure those
needed?
Test: based on
study cards
submitted by
students on unit
from readings
Students assign
homework for
presentations
and score
papers
Student generated
quizzes
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Unit 7: Cities and Urban Land Use
Week
Readings
1
Pages 403416
2
Pages 418434
3
Pages 437452
4
Pages454469
5
Pages 404,
408, 415,
432, 433,
434, 438,
453, 464,
467, 468,
and 469
Subtopic
Where Did
Services
Originate?
Why Are
Consumer
Services
Distributed in a
Regular Pattern?
Why Do
Business
Services Locate
in Large
Settlements?
Why Do
Services Cluster
Downtown?
Where Have
Urban Areas
Grown?
Where Are
People
Distributed
Within Urban
Areas?
Why Do Inner
Cities Have
Distinctive
Problems?
Why Do Suburbs
Have Distinctive
Problems?
Case Studies
Key Terms
Summaries
Thinking
Geographically
Global Forces,
Local Impacts
Contemporary
Geographic
Tools
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Class Activities
1. Mapping laboratory: make a
time line of urban
development and chart the
type of services needed then
create a key and apply to a
world political map
(Nystrom kit)
2. Video: Economic
Geography (CNN)
1. Mapping laboratory: use the
internet to find urban plans,
e.g., Chicago Plan,
Riverside IL Plan, Central
Park Plan, color code and
compare
2. PowerPoint presentation:
Urban Geography
1. Source book reading:
Urbanization in the 19th
Century
2. Medieval towns—
population and service
locations
3. Three Models of Urban
Structure reading
4. Compare models to city
maps
1. Mapping laboratory: use of
several suburbs and plot
location of various types of
residential structures,
services and industry; use
specific labels
2. Localized characteristics
and problems: list of areas,
crime rates (local police
department public records),
school report cards; chart
and analyze
1. Writing practice for open
ended questions
2. Compare and Contrast
3. Cause and Effect
4. Narrative
5. Expository
6. Persuasive
homework
Map community
for types of
services,
residential
patterns, and
transportation
facilities
assessment
Product
Assessment:
Community Map
On a map of the
public
transportation
routes in the
city, locate and
block out
clusters of
services
Make a list of
problems
associated with
the inner city.
After each give
what you
believe is the
cause and a
possible
solution to the
problem
Free Response:
Analyze data
from urban maps
and urban
planning models
Secure materials
for urban plans
and problems—
maps, statistics,
school report
cards (Illinois
State Board of
Education)
Multiple-choice
using questions
from prior AP
exams on urban
models
Edit writing for
factual
statements,
style, and
mechanics
Open-ended
questions using
examples from
prior AP exams
DBQ: Inner City,
Urban Area,
Suburban Area;
Compare and
Contrast
Elements
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Exam Review
Week
Readings
Subtopic
Class Activities
Salient Points
1. Pre-test after review using
an outline and the studentgenerated study flip notes
2. Pre-test using study flip
cards organized by outline
points and remediated for
missing points
3. Practice Test 1 self-scored
1. Read and make additional
study flip cards of
summaries for each chapter
1-14
2. Review and make additional
study flip cards from each
test or other assessment
filed in class binder
1. Practice Test 1 repeated
2. Practice Test 1 scored in
class
3. Practice Test 2
4. Practice Test 2 scored in
class
1
Note
Cards
2
Summaries Context
3
Class
Binder
Practice Tests
homework
assessment
Match note
cards to
points in an
outline
Pre-test 1
Pre-test 2
Practice Test 1
Match note
cards to
points in
outline
Quizzes on
each summary
Study flip
note cards;
make
additional
ones as
needed
Practice Tests 1
and 2 taken and
scored in class
Each test takes
two class
sessions
Teaching Strategies
AP® Human Geography uses a wide variety of strategies as shown in the course outline
and planner. Included, but not limited to these, are interactive lectures, debates, mapping
laboratories using the Nystrom mapping kit for World Geography and Cultures,
PowerPoint presentations, the CNN video series Geography, PBS series World: A
Television History, the source book—Readings in World History, debates, studentgenerated presentations to the class, practice exam questions, and study note flip cards.
The school has a website, www.Amundsen.enschool.org which is used to communicate
between the school and the learning community. Assignments and weekly work is posted
as is e-mail of instructors, links to research sites, and the school calendar.
Writing assignments are varied and given in each unit of study. Lessons are given on
style as well as content as practice for the AP examination in May. Students are given
assessment employing analytical thinking and consistently more demanding so the
student will do well in the free-response section of the exam. The College Board rubric
is reviewed often and used to score all writing assignments and assessments.
Laboratory Component
Students are required to use two forms of lab work—the Nystrom mapping kit which has
laminated desk maps, markers, atlases, black line masters which are duplicated as a lab
manual. Much of the homework labs are done using the website licensed to the school
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with the kit, www.maps101.com, and www.worldgeography.abc-clio.com. The school
subscribes to all three sites and students may access the sites through links from the
school website. All are useful in doing research as the second form of lab work assigned.
Student Evaluation
Student evaluation is based on prediction of how well the student will do on the AP®
Human Geography examination. Each unit exam is composed on the AP model with
50% multiple choice and 50% free-response. Quizzes have one or the other question type
indicated by the need of the majority of student as practice. Each question is
progressively challenging or taken directly from prior AP® examinations. Laboratory
assignments are assessed on the product and the procedure. Method is evaluated on
logical sequence, while the product score is scored on accuracy and creative effort in the
use of materials and data analysis. Flip note cards are used as study material. Students
are to organize the cards (5 x 7) by points on an outline of the course. Review of the note
cards—flip cards—is done weekly to assure students of having vocabulary, models,
names, and other factual items in their hands. Although each activity, assessment, and
homework assignment is important, the greatest weight is on the AP® practices at the
conclusion of each unit. To the greatest extent possible, scoring well on this examination
is the goal of the course.
Student Activities
Unit 1: Map Construction and Analysis
Students use a world map two-sided (relief physical and political) and identify
elements—scale, location, place distribution, distance, projection—by comparison
between among ten points on each side of the map. Approach is that of a cartographer.
Conclusions are made in a essay to address the four traditions and five themes of
geography. Advantages and disadvantages of the elements of design must be included.
Unit 2: Population Theorists
Students are to write and essay on the population theories of Malthus and Riccardo. The
essay is to summarize the two population philosophers, evaluate the usefulness of the
theories, and project the impact each had on his intellectual peers.
Unit 3: Cultural Diffusion
A research assignment is developed to include traditional folk culture and the defects of
western media or popular culture upon it. Assignment is to include photos of traditional
housing, food, and dress and changes made when magazines films and television from
Anglo-America and Western Europe reach the culture, again using photos as evidence
cited on the internet at www.classzone.com or www.loc.gov.
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Unit 4: Comparative Religious Practices in the Community Field Work
Arrangements are made for parent permission and house of worship leaders of many of
the congregations or parishioners for visits to churches, reading rooms, mosques, and
synagogues. With permission, drawings or photos are made of the architecture and
interviews with the leaders to answer questions in order for students to made comparisons
and contrasts of the houses of worship
Unit 4: Political Issues Debate on Resources
Students are divided into six teams to examine three issues—resources distribution,
global warming and energy supplies. Teams have one issue and at random are selected to
take a pro or con side of the issue assigned. Research is done via the internet to find facts
on both sides of the issue in order to present the issue and anticipate the points that will
be argued on the opposing side. Students will write a one page summary of the issue,
giving a persuasive argument on the stance chosen.
Unit 5: Menu Map
Students are to write out the menu for a dinner of four courses. From there, a shopping
list of ingredients is devised. Students are to use a world map to trace the ingredients
from origin to the table. A chart is made of ingredients, place of origin, growth cycle,
and climatic conditions that reflects the diffusion of the plant or animal.
Unit 6: Models of Industrial Development
Students write a short summary and make models of the Rostow model, Weber model,
Core-periphery model, Industrial Revolution model, and social class model of industrial
development.
Unit 7: Walking/Riding Tour of the Main Shopping Areas Field Work
Students will be given a tour by the Chicago Architectural Foundation and the
Neighborhood Ethnic Tours. Students are to map out the downtown and neighborhood
distribution of services using a map of the city and a guide on what to expect in each of
the ethnic areas. A reflective journal will be kept on what was seen, what they expected
to see, and the emotional impact of the areas—fear, sympathy, phobias, and/or
disappointment—traveled on the tour.
Additional Readings
Unit 1: Maps
Journal Articles
Annals of the Association of American Geographers
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Antopade
Area
Focus: The Dictionary of Human Geography
Geographical Analysis
Geographical Review
Journal of Geography
Professional Geographer
Progress in Human Geography
Excerpts from…
Ayers, Edward L. et al. All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions. Baltimore:
John Hopkins University Press, 1996.
Hgerstrand, Torsten. Innovation Diffusion as a Spatial Process. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press, 1967.
Hanson, Susan, ed. Ten Geographic Ideas That Changed the World. New Brunswick
NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1997.
Johnston, R. J., et al., eds. Dictionary of Human Geography, 4th ed. Oxford UK:
Blackwell, 2000.
Massey, Doreen B. Space, Place, and Gender. Minneapolis: university of Minnesota
Press, 1994.
Wagner, Phillip L. and Marvin W. Mikesell, eds. Readings in Cultural Geography.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962.
Unit 2: Population
Journals
American Demographics
Population and Development Review
World Population Data Sheet
Excerpts from….
Beaujeu-Garnier, Jacqueline. Geography of Population, 2nd ed. London: Longman,
1978.
Carr-Saunders, A. B. World Population: Past Growth and Present Trends. London:
Cass, 1964.
Homer-Dixon, Thomas F. Environmental Scarcity and Global Security. Euphata, PA:
Science Press, 1991.
Malthus, Thomas. An Essay on the Principles of Population. 1978 Reprint, London:
Royal Economic Society, 1926 (first published 1798)
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The Human Population. Scientific American. San Francisco: W. H. Freeman, 1974.
Simon, Julian. Theory of Population and Economic Growth. Oxford and New York:
Blackwell,1986.
United Nations. Demographic Yearbook. New York: United Nations, Published
annually.
World Bank. World Bank Development Report. New York: Oxford University Press,
published annually
Unit 3: Cultural Patterns and Diffusion
Journals
International Folk Music Council Journal
Journal of American Culture
Journal of American Folklore
Journal of American Studies
Journal of Popular Culture
Journal of Sports History
Excerpts from…
Al Farqui, Isma’il R. and Lois Lamaya’ Al Farqui. The Cultural Atlas of Islam. New
York Macmillian, 1993.
Bigsby, C. W. E., ed. Superculture: American Popular Culture and Europe. Bowling
Green OH: Bowling Green Popular Press, 1975.
Carney, George O. ed. Baseball, Barns, and Bluegrass: A Geography of American
Folk Life. London MD: Roman and Littlefield, 1998.
Lewis, Donald C. After Atheism: Religion and Ethnicity in Russia and Central Asia.
Richmond, Surrey UK: Curzon, 2000.
Ling, Trevor. A History of Religion East and West. London: Macmilliam, 1968.
Lomax, John A. and Alan Lomax. American Ballads and Folk Songs. New York:
Dover, 1994.
McCrum, Robert, et al. The Story of English. New York: Viking, 1986.
Rapoport, Amos. House, Farm, and Culture. Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1969.
Thompson, Jan and Mel Thompson. The R.E. Atlas: World Religion in Maps and
Notes. London: Edward W. Arnold, 1986.
Williams. Colin H. ed. Language in Geographic Context. Cleveland UK: Multilingual
Matters, 1988
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Unit 4: Political Organization of Space
Journals:
American Journal of Political Science
American Political Science Review
Foreign Affairs
Foreign Policy
International Affairs
International Journal
International Journal of Middle East Studies
Political Geography
Post-Soviet Geography
Excerpts from…
Agnew, John. Making Political Geography. London: Arnold, 2002.
Brown, Curtis M. et al. Brown’s Boundary Control and Legal Principles, 4th ed. New
York: John Wiley, 1995
Brown, Lester R., et al. State of the World. New York, London: W. W. Norton & Co.,
published annually since 1984.
Buttimer, Anne, ed. Sustainable Landscapes and Lifeways: Scale and
Appropriateness. Cork: Cork University Press, 2001.
Commoner, Barry. Making Peace with the Planet. New York: New Press, 1990.
Cutter, Susan L. and William H. Renwick. Exploitation, Conservation, Preservation:
A Geographic Perspective on Natural Resources, 4th ed. Dunvers MA: John
Wiley, 2004.
Demko, George A. and William P Wood, eds. Reordering the World: Geopolitical
Perspectives on the Twentieth Century. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1999.
Gottmann, Jean, ed. Centre and Periphery: Spatial Variation in Politics. Beverly
Hills CA: Sage, 1980.
Kliot, N. and Stanley Waterman, eds. Pluralism and Political Geography: People,
Territory, and State. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983.
O’Sullivan, Patrick. Geopolitics. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1986.
Smith, Dan. The State of War and Peace Atlas, 3rd ed. London, New York: Penguin,
1997.
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Unit 5: Agriculture and Rural Land Use
Journal:
Journal of Rural Studies
Excerpts from…
Bayliss-Smith, T. P. The Ecology of Agricultural Systems. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1982.
Boserup, Ester. The Conditions of Agricultural Change: The Economics of Agrarian
Change under Population Pressure. London: Allen and Unwin, 1965.
Dakers, Sonya. Sustainable Agriculture: Future Dimensions. Ottawa: Library of
Parliament (Research Branch), 1992.
Hayami, Y. and Ruttan V. W. Agricultural Development: An International
Perspective, 2nd ed. Baltimore MD: John Hopkins University Press, 1985.
Morgan, W. B. Agriculture in the Third World: A Spatial Analysis. Boulder CO:
Westview Press, 1978.
Unit 6: Industrialization and Economic Development
Journals:
Ecological Economics
Ecologist
Economic Development and Cultural Change
Economic Geography
Energy Journal
Energy Policy
Environment
Environmental Management
Environmental Pollution
Journal of Environmental Management
International Development Review
International Journal of Political Economy
Journal of Developing Areas
Journal of Industrial Economics
Journal of International Economics
Journal of Marketing
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Journal of Transport Economics and Policy
Journal of Transport History
Journal of Urban Economics
Netherlands Journal of Economic and Social Geography
Regional Studies
World Watch
Excerpts from…
Ashton, Thomas S. The Industrial Revolution. London, New York: Oxford University
Press, 1997.
Black, Jan Knippers. Development in Theory and Practice: Paradigms and
Paradoxes, 2nd ed. Boulder CO: Westview Press, 1999.
Bluestone, Barry and Bennett Harrison. The Deindustrialization of America: Plant
Closings, Community Abandonment, and the Dismantling of Basic Industry.
New York: Basic Books, 1982.
Dicken, Peter. Global Shift, 4th ed. New York: Guilford, 2003.
Momsen, Janet Henshall. Women and Development in the Third World. London:
Routledge, 1993.
Peet, Richard, ed. International Capitalism and Industrial Restructuring. Boston:
Allen and Unwin, 1987.
Rostow, Walter W. The Stages of Economic Growth. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1960.
Scott, Allen J. amd Michael Strorper, eds. Production, Work, Territory. Boston:
Allen and Unwin, 1986.
Wallerstein, Immanuel. The Capitalist World Economy. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 1979.
Unit 7: Cities an Urban Land Use
Journals
Journal of Historical Geography
Journal of Regional Science
Journal of Rural Studies
Journal of Urban Economics
Urban Geography
Excerpts from…
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Benevolo, Leonardo. The History of the City, 2nd ed. Cambridge MA: M.I.T. Press,
1991
Berry Brian J.L. The Geography of Market Centers and Retail Distribution.
Englewood Cliffs NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1967.
Bourne, L.S. and J.W. Simmons. Systems of the City. New York: Oxford Press, 1978.
Daniels, P.W. Service Industries: A Geographic Appraisal. London: Methuen, 1986
King, Leslie J. Central Place Theory. Beverly Hills CA: Sage Publications, 1984.
Scott, Peter. Geography and Retailing. London: Hutchinson University Press, 1970.
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