Geography XII Part-I

By Dr. Tannu Malik | DESS, NCERT, New Delhi

Learners enrolled: 2334

Geography is as an elective subject at the higher secondary stage. It is an academic discipline and school subject with defined perspective, knowledge and skills. Geographical knowledge is useful in daily lives because it is a valuable medium for the education of young people. Its contribution lies in the content, cognitive processes, skills and values that geography promotes. Thus, helping students explore, understand and evaluate the environmental and social dimensions of the world in a better manner. Since Geography explores the relationship between people and their environment, it includes studies of physical and human environments and their interactions at different scales-local, state/region, national and the world. The factors responsible for the variation in pattern of physical and human phenomena over the earth’s surface needs a proper understanding. Through this course, Students will be exposed to different methods used in geographical investigations.

In this Course “Fundamentals of Human Geography”, students will be able to understand about the key concepts and basic principles of human geography. It will help them analyse the inter-relationship between physical and human environments and their patterns of spatial arrangement on the earth’s surface. Nature and distribution of human activities over the earth’s surface, as well as the uneven nature of population distribution will also be dealt here. Students will be able to understand population change and factors responsible for this. They will be able to understand the importance of transport, communication and trade in the ever shrinking world. Students will also be able to develop geographical skills, related to collection, processing and analysis of data/information and preparation of report. In doing this, they will learn to use maps and graphs and use of computers. Dr. Tannu Malik, Associate Professor in Department of Education in Social Sciences, NCERT, New Delhi will be interacting with you. Each module of this course will have four quadrants: e-Tutorial (Video/Audio), e-text, Web resources, Self-Assessment questions (MCQs, right wrong, one word answers, etc.) and transcription of the video. Hope you will enjoy the course.

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Core
Duration :	24 weeks
Category :	School
Credit Points :	2
Level :	School
Start Date :	15 May 2020
End Date :	29 Oct 2020
Enrollment Ends :	31 Aug 2020
Exam Date :	15 Oct 2020 IST

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

Page Visits

Course layout

Week	Module
Week 0	How to access the course?
Week 1	Nature and scope of human geography – Part 1 (legy_10101)
Week 2	The world population distribution,density and growth – Part 1 (legy_10201)
Week 3	The world population distribution,density and growth – Part 2 (legy_10202)
Week 4	Assignment Chapter 1 & Chapter 2
Week 5	Population Composition – Part 1 (legy_10301)
Week 6	Human Development – Part 1 (legy_10401)
Week 7	Assignment Chapter 3 & Chapter 4
Week 8	Human Activity - Primary Activities – Part 1 (legy_10501)
Week 9	Human Activity-Agriculture – Part 2 (legy_10502)
Week 10	Secondary Activity-Manufacturing – Part 1 (legy_10601)
Week 11	Secondary Activity-Manufacturing Industries – Part 2 (legy_10602)
Week 12	Assignment Chapter 5 & Chapter 6
Week 13	Tertiary Activities – Part 1 (legy_10701)
Week 14	Quaternary and Quinary Activities – Part 2 (legy_10702)
Week 15	Transport and Communication- Road Transport – Part 1 (legy_10801)
Week 16	Transport and Communication- Railways – Part 2 (legy_10802)
Week 17	Transport and Communication- Waterway – Part 3 (legy_10803)
Week 18	Transport and Communication- Air Transport, Pipelines and Communication – Part 4 (legy_10804)
Week 19	Assignment Chapter 7 & Chapter 8
Week 20	International trade – Part 1 (legy_10901)
Week 21	International trade – Part 2 (legy_10902)
Week 22	Rural Settlement – Part 1 (legy_11001)
Week 23	Rural Settlement – Part 2 (legy_11002) Assignment Chapter 9 & Chapter 10 Feedback and Discussion

Books and references

NCERT "Fundamentals of Human Geography" for Class - XII

url:- http://ncert.nic.in/textbook.php?legy1=0-10

Instructor bio

Dr. Tannu Malik

DESS, NCERT, New Delhi

Dr. Tannu Malik is working as an Associate Professor in Department of Education in Social Sciences, NCERT, New Delhi. Her areas of specialisation are Geography education, Environment education and Disaster Management.