It's not a crazy, hard class, so don't chicken out and be scared that you're not going to get an 'A' or something because many people take it and are very strong-willed and want to get an 'A' do so. If you work hard, you can easily get an 'A' in the class. I've never taken an AP class before,' and so then they don't take it. A lot of people sign up for it, and they're like, 'No, I can't do this. Unit V.The first thing I'm just going to start with is to not be scared to take the class.HGIA: Ch 13 - Breaking Up is Hard to Do Nations, States, and Nation-States.Invisible Millions Pay Price of Statelessness.Electoral geography: redistricting and gerrymandering.Devolution of countries: centripetal and centrifugal forces.Supranationalism and international alliances. Fragmentation, unification, and cooperation.Changes and challenges to political-territorial arrangements.Patterns of local, regional, and metropolitan governance.Fall of communism and legacy of the Cold War.Evolution of the contemporary political pattern.Political ecology: impacts of law and policy on the environment and environmental justice.Spatial relationships between political systems and patterns of ethnicity, economy, and gender.Federal and unitary states, confederations, centralized government, and forms of governance.Influences of boundaries on identity, interaction, and exchange.The nature, meaning, and function of boundaries.The concepts of political power and territoriality.Unit IV: Political Organization of Space.HGIA: Ch 12 - Do Orange and Green Clash? Residential Segregation in Northern Ireland.HGIA: Ch 2 - Layers of Tradition: Culture Regions at Different Scales.Chapter 5: Identity: Race, Ethnicity, Gender, & Sexuality.Chapter 4: Local Culture, Popular Culture and Cultural Landscapes.Differences in cultural attitudes and practices toward the environment.The formation of identity and place making.Cultural landscapes and cultural identity.Cultural conflicts, and law and policy to protect culture.Cultural differences in attitudes toward gender.Cultural differences and regional patterns.Globalization and the effects of technology on cultures.Cultural region, vernacular regions, and culture hearths.Acculturation, assimilation, and multiculturalism.Unit III: Cultural Patterns and Processes.HGIA: Ch 3 - Tracking AIDS Epidemic in the US Diffusion Through Space and Time.HGIA: Ch 4 - Newton's First Law of Migration (Gravity Model).HGIA: Ch 5 - The Hidden Momentum of Population Growth.Consequences of migration: socioeconomic, cultural, environmental, and political immigration policies remittances.Refugees, asylum seekers, and internally displaced persons.Push and pull factors, and migration in relation to employment and quality of life.Types of migration: transnational, internal, chain, step, seasonal agriculture (e.g., transhumance), and rural to urban.Population and natural hazards: impacts on policy, economy, and society.Environmental impacts of population change on water use, food supplies, biodiversity, the atmosphere, and climate.Effects of national population policies: promoting population growth in some countries or reducing fertility rates in others.Regional variations of demographic transition.Theories of population growth and decline, including the Demographic Transition Model.Historical trends and projections for the future.Population growth and decline over time and space.Patterns of fertility, mortality, and health.Composition: age, sex, income, education, and ethnicity.Implications of various densities and distributions.Human Geography in Action: Ch 1 True Maps/False Maps.A New Look at the Four Traditions of Geography.Defining Geography: What is Where, Why There, and Why Care?.
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