WHEELER HIGH SCHOOL ' S
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Course Name: World Geography Type of Course: Elective Course Available to: 9th grade
Prerequisites: GA Studies( 70 %- 89 %) OR AC GA Studies 8( 70 %- 79 %)
Description: This course is designed to provide students with an analytical view of how geographic factors have and continue to influence human behavior on the earth. Students will examine how the physical and cultural geographic factors contribute to varying levels of cooperation within the major world regions. Additionally, students will examine the importance that political, environmental, and economic factors have in a region ' s development.
Course Name: Pre-AP World History and Geography Type of Course: Elective Course Available to: 9th grade
Prerequisites: GA Studies 8( 90 %+) OR AC GA Studies 8( 80 %- 84 %)
Description: This course is designed to prioritize the skills fundamental to the study of history and geography in high school, Advanced Placement( AP), and beyond. Students will have multiple opportunities to think and work like historians and geographers as they develop and strengthen these disciplinary reasoning skills throughout their education in history and the social sciences.
Course Name: AP Human Geography Type of Course: Elective Course
Available to: 9th- 12th grade
Prerequisites: AC GA Studies 8( 85 %+) OR H. World History, AP World History, H. US History, OR AP US History( 80 %+)
Description: This course is designed to provide the student with an in-depth understanding of the earth’ s regions, religions, languages, recent regional histories, governments, economic systems, and physical features. By the end of the semester, students will be able to watch the news on television and understand the issues that define our world and will employ spatial concepts and landscape analysis to analyze the methods and tool geographers use in their science and practice. The course will cover demography, resources and human settlement, cultural patterns and processes, political geography, economic geography, and environmental and development issues. The course will involve extensive readings, independent study, and frequent written / document analysis to prepare students for the AP Human Geography Exam. Students earn an additional 1.0 quality point towards their GPA for this course.
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