Segment One

Module 01 - Thinking Geographically

• Types of maps
• Methods of geographic data collection
• Geographical effects of decisions made using geographical information
• Major geographic concepts that illustrate spatial relationships
• Scales of analysis 
• Regions
• Human-Environmental Interaction

Module 02 - Population and Migration Patterns and Processes

• Factors that influence the distribution of human populations at different scales
• Calculating population density
• Population distribution and density’s affect society and the environment.
• Elements of population composition used by geographers
• Contemporary and historical trends in population growth and decline
• Causes and consequences of an aging population
• Theories of population growth and decline
• Population and immigration policies 
• Factors encouraging migration
• Forced and voluntary migration
• Historical and contemporary geographic effects of migration

Module 03 - Cultural Patterns and Processes

• Characteristics, attitudes, and traits of culture 
• Characteristics of cultural landscapes.
• How landscape features and land and resource use reflect cultural beliefs and identities
• Patterns and landscapes of language, religion, ethnicity, and gender
• Types of diffusion
• Effects of diffusion on the cultural landscape 
• How historical processes impact current cultural patterns
• Factors leading to diffusion of universalizing and ethnic religions

Module 04 - Political Patterns and Processes

• Different types of political entities
• Processes that have shaped contemporary political geography
• Political power and territoriality 
• Political boundaries 
• Nature and function of international and internal boundaries
• Federal and unitary states
• Factors that lead to the devolution of states
• Political, economic, cultural, and technological challenges to state sovereignty
• Centrifugal and centripetal forces 

Segment Two

Module 05 - Agricultural and Rural Land-Use Patterns and Processes

• Connection between physical geography and agricultural practices
• Rural settlement patterns 
• Methods of surveying rural settlements
• Major centers of domestication of plants.
• Global diffusion of plants and animals 
• Advances and impacts of the second agricultural revolution
• Consequences of the Green Revolution on food supply and the environment in the developing world
• Economic forces influencing agricultural practices
• von Thünen model 
• Interdependence among regions of agricultural production and consumption
• Environmental and societal consequences of agricultural practices
• Challenges and debates related to the changing nature of contemporary agriculture and food-production practices
• Geographic variations in female roles in food production and consumption

Module 06 - Cities and Urban Land Use Patterns and Processes

• Processes that initiate and drive urbanization and suburbanization
• How cities embody processes of globalization
• Urban concepts such as hierarchy, interdependence, relative size, and spacing 
• Internal structure of cities using various models and theories
• Low-, medium-, and high-density housing 
• A city\'s infrastructure as it relates to local politics, society, and the environment
• Urban design initiatives and practices
• Causes and effects of geographic changes within urban areas
• Urban sustainability challenges

Module 07 - Industrial and Economic Development Patterns and Processes

• How the Industrial Revolution facilitated the growth and diffusion of industrialization
• Spatial patterns of industrial production and development
• Social and economic measures of development
• Extent that changes in economic development have contributed to gender parity
• Theories of economic and social development
• Causes and geographic consequences of trade, deindustrialization, and growing interdependence in the world economy
• Sustainability principles in relation to industrialization and spatial development