Unit focus
Unit 4 Enduring Understandings: What you need to know & understand
- The contemporary political map has been shaped by events of the past.
- Spatial political patterns reflect ideas of territoriality and power at a variety of levels.
- The forces of globalization challenge contemporary political-territorial arrangements.
Unit Concepts: Political Organization of Space
The main themes of this unit should focus on significant world issues, such as the impact of colonialism on states, the fragmentation of states today, and the opposing issue of supranationalism.
The main themes of this unit should focus on significant world issues, such as the impact of colonialism on states, the fragmentation of states today, and the opposing issue of supranationalism.
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A. Territorial dimensions of politics
1. The concept of territoriality 2. The nature and meaning of boundaries 3. Influences of boundaries on identity, interaction, and exchange 4. Federal and unitary states 5. Spatial relationships between political patterns and patterns of ethnicity, economy, and environment |
B. Evolution of the contemporary political pattern
1. The nation-state concept 2. Colonialism and imperialism 3. Democratization |
C. Changes and challenges to political–territorial arrangements
1. Changing nature of sovereignty 2. Fragmentation, unification, alliance 3. Supranationalism and devolution 4. Electoral geography, including gerrymandering 5. Terrorism |
Targeted Learning
Key Learning Activities:
1. Map work to familiarize students with the location of regions, sub-regions, and individual countries.
2. A Socratic seminar on a reading pertaining to the opposing patterns of devolution and supranationalism.
3. Each student will be responsible for researching and reporting to the class a case study from the Political Geography chapter, such as the successes and failures of the European Union, or issues surrounding devolution in the former Yugoslavia.
Assessment Strategies
Key Learning Activities:
1. Map work to familiarize students with the location of regions, sub-regions, and individual countries.
2. A Socratic seminar on a reading pertaining to the opposing patterns of devolution and supranationalism.
3. Each student will be responsible for researching and reporting to the class a case study from the Political Geography chapter, such as the successes and failures of the European Union, or issues surrounding devolution in the former Yugoslavia.
Assessment Strategies
- 1 Formative MCQ and 1 Formative FRQ; culminating summative is an MCQ and FRQ
Resources for study & preparation
APHG TextBOOK resources
page numbers may vary slightly according to the edition you have of the textbook
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Fouberg (9th)
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Rubenstein (10th)
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Wood (2nd)
Unit 4: Political Organization of Space (pp. 99-129) |