Description

This course focuses on the people, places, physical features, and unique characteristics of Europe, Asia, Australia, the island nations of the Pacific, and Antarctica. Students will learn valuable information about the world we inhabit today including how and where people live, and how their lives are changing in response to their physical environment, their governments, and their economic systems. Students will learn that Geography is not just the study of our physical world, but also the study of interactions between humans, their land, natural resources, weather, and ecosystems. Throughout the course students use such geographic skills as reading and drawing maps, analyzing charts and diagrams and interpreting technical vocabulary.

NOTE: World Geography 1 and 2 may be taken in any sequence.

Course Structure

Study Scope and Sequence

Unit 1: Western Europe

Unit 2: Central Europe and Northern Eurasia

Unit 3: Central, South, and Southwest Asia

Unit 4: East Asia and the Pacific World

Course Objectives

When you have completed this course, you should be able to:

1. Display a good understanding of geographical skills.
2. Recognize and explain how the changes within the earth and on the earth\'s surface affect human populations.
3. Use maps, graphs, and other visual representations of geographical data effectively.
4. Explain the geographic causes and consequences of some of the differences that exist between cultures.
5. Visualize interrelationships between the continents and oceans of the world.
6. Explain how different cultures have adapted to, or made use of, their environments.
7. Identify the problems facing a variety of cultures and suggest possible solutions.
8. Develop an appreciation for the interdependence of all the countries of the world.

Course syllabus

Syllabus_World_Geography_2

• Syllabus_World_Geography_2

Materials required

For this course you need to secure the following textbook and materials (if lab kit is listed, check first the possibility of using your school lab prior to buying the lab kit):

Price

course fee: 524,- EUR / 12 480,- Kč