AP Psych or AP Human Geography?
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Anonymous
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my kid is interested in one of these classes for an elective next year. If you have a MCPS student who's taken one of these, I'd love to hear about it.
TIA |
Anonymous
| What is "human geography"? |
Anonymous
One class uses your head, the other your hands. |
Anonymous
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They’re both fine. Your kid should take the one they prefer.
Or if they can find out about the relative strengths of the teachers, perhaps that might help them make a decision. |
Anonymous
| I think human geography is pretty useless. I haven't found any colleges that take credits or give head start. Pysch is probably batter for college credits. |
Anonymous
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My kid is taking both right now.
Likes AP psych much better as far as substance. |
Anonymous
| human geography is known as the easy AP |
Anonymous
| Human geography just sounds ridiculous. Pick the other option. |
Anonymous
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AP Psych can ALWAYS be used at college as either an elective credit or a social/Psych credit.
Plus with all the mental illnesses going on, I think Psych is much more relevant to teens. |
Anonymous
| My niece called human geography AP coloring. Take Psychology |
Anonymous
| Human geography sounds much more interesting to me but I'm a social scientist. |
Anonymous
Load of crap comment... If you are interested in learning more about Human Geography - see here: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/ap-human-geography-course-at-a-glance.pdf |
Anonymous
This is not true... |
Anonymous
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AP Human Geography is a very interesting course and mapping is actually a very small part of it. Other topics include a unit of population (measuring demographic differences, population policies around the world, migration, push-pull factors, etc.); a unit on culture (how culture spreads using things like music or religion or foodways as case studies); a unit on cities and now they are structured, comparing historical growth or cities in the developed vs. developing worlds; industrial and economic development, etc. Super interesting for the most part.
I can't speak to AP Psych so it depends on your child's interests, but I will defend AP Human Geography as a course. |
Anonymous
| Human geography sounds interesting and very relevant for social science work. |