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Geography XII Part-I

By Dr. Soyhunlo Sebu   |   RIE Bhopal
Learners enrolled: 463
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
Level : School
Start Date : 20 Apr 2023
End Date : 30 Sep 2023
Enrollment Ends : 31 Aug 2023
Exam Registration Ends : 18 Sep 2023
Exam Date : 25 Sep 2023 IST

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


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Course layout

Chapter No.

Module No.

Module Name

Chapter 1

Module 1

Nature and Scope of Human Geography

Assignment 1

Chapter 2

Module 2

The World Population Distribution, Density and Growth – Part 1

Module 3

The World Population Distribution, Density and Growth – Part 2

Assignment 2

Chapter 3

Module 4

Population Composition

Assignment 3

Chapter 4

Module 5

Human Development

Assignment 4

Chapter 5

Module 6

Human Activity - Primary Activities 

Module 7

Human Activity-Agriculture 

Assignment 5

Chapter 6

Module 8

Secondary Activity-Manufacturing 

Module 9

Secondary Activity-Manufacturing Industries

Assignment 6

Chapter 7

Module 10

Tertiary Activities

Module 11

Quaternary and Quinary Activities

Assignment 7

Chapter 8

Module 12

Transport and Communication – Road Transport 

Module 13


Transport and Communication – Railways

Module 14

Transport and Communication – Waterway

Module 15

Transport and Communication – Air Transport, Pipelines and Communication

Assignment 8

Chapter 9

Module 16

International Trade – Part 1

Module 17

International Trade – Part 2

Assignment 9

Chapter 10

Module 18

Rural Settlement – Part 1

Module 19

Rural Settlement – Part 2

Assignment 10

Final Assessment

Books and references

NCERT "Fundamentals of Human Geography" for Class - XII

Instructor bio

Dr. Soyhunlo Sebu

RIE Bhopal

B.A, M.Sc (Gold Medal) UGC NET, Ph.D

I did my schooling at Don Bosco School Tseminyu, Jawahar Navodaya Vidyalaya  Kohima, Madhubani, and Pfukhro Mao. 

I did my Bachelor’s Degree from Pandu College, Guwahati, Assam, and my master’s degree and Ph. D (Geography) from Nagaland University.

Prior to joining NCERT, I worked as PGT (Geography) at Tuensang Higher Secondary School Tuensang Nagaland. I joined NCERT in the year 2015 as Assistant Professor (Geography). Currently, I’m posted in RIE-NCERT Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh. 

I have authored a book “Geography of Nagaland” and am a Co-editor of “ Global Citizenship Education: a hand Book for Teachers at the upper primary level in India”. 

I have presented research papers at many National and International conferences and seminars. My research papers are published in International and national peer review and UCG CARE journals. 

My area of interest is in physical geography.

Course certificate

The final assessment will be conducted in the last week of the course i.e. from 25th September to 30 September 2023. The participants will get completion certificate if they score 60% and above in the final assessment.


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