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UPDATE (4/9/15):

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Human Geography was officially introduced into the Advanced Placement Program in the fall of 2000. The first exam was administered in May 2001, with 3,293 students from 309 high schools accepting the challenge. AP Human Geography has experienced steady growth since 2001, with 14,139 students from 702 high schools taking the exam in 2005. Tis growth translates into great news for geography education. The direction of the course is governed by the AP Human Geography Development Committee, which is composed of three university professors, three high school teachers, a university professor who serves as the Chief Reader, and an assessment specialist from ETS. This team also works together to design a rigorous, comprehensive, and equitable exam.
 * The AP Human Geography Course**

A number of studies are conducted to ensure that the AP Human Geography course is current, the exam is valid, and the scores are comparable to college-level grades. Periodically, the committee develops and administers a curriculum survey that is sent to colleges and universities that include human geography among their course offerings. The committee reviews the responses and makes revisions to the AP Human Geography Course Description based on the results. A college comparability study is administered to a sample of college classes in the initial year of a new AP Exam and again every five years. In this study, a portion of the AP Exam is administered to college students enrolled in human geography courses. Their scores are compared with AP scores, and score boundaries are set so that an AP score of 5, for example, is equivalent to a college grade of A.

Haven't all the places in the world been discovered, located, and named already? For the most part, yes.
 * Why Study Geography?**

So, why geography?

It seems that citizens of the United States are finally becoming aware that their ignorance of geography is affecting their country's environmental, political, and economic well-being. The world is shrinking fast and it is important to know where things are located. But more important yet is knowing how those places are affected by the environment and its peoples. That, too, is geography.

The earth's survival depends on our knowing where the rain forests are being cleared and where the ozone layer is being depleted. It would behoove us to know why people want to fly airplanes into buildings. And we must respect the interdependent web of existence of which we are a part. At the heart of all that is geography.

**__Syllabus__**
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