Comprehensive study resources for Human Geography (Honours) are provided below. This includes the current academic syllabus along with previous years' examination papers for the 2024 and 2025 sessions to assist in thorough exam preparation.
Course Syllabus
Click to Expand: Human Geography (GEOG-H-CC02) Syllabus
Semesters – 2 / 4 (for H & MD)
GEOG-H-CC02/MD-CC02-2/4-Th – Human Geography – 75 Marks / 3 Credits
Unit I: Scope and Approaches
- 1. Elements of human geography: Nature, scope, and recent trends [4]
- 2. Human geography schools of thought: Resource, locational, landscape, environment [6]
Unit II: Social Geography
- 3. Evolution of human societies: Hunting and food gathering, pastoral nomadism, subsistence farming, and industrial society [6]
- 4. Human adaptation to the environment: Chenchu, Toda, and Gond [6]
- 5. Evolution and characteristics of post-industrial urban societies [2]
Unit III: Population Geography
- 6. Demographic transition. Significance of demographic dividend [3]
- 7. Distribution, density, and growth of population in India [4]
Unit IV: Settlement Geography
- 8. Characteristics of settlements: Urban and rural [4]
- 9. Site, situation, types, and patterns of rural settlements [6]
Unit V: Urban Geography
- 10. Size-class classification of urban settlements after Census of India [4]
Previous Year Questions
2025
GEOGRAPHY — HONOURS
Paper : DSCC-2
(Human Geography)
Full Marks : 75
Category - A
Answer any ten questions (each within 50 words).
2 × 10
1. What is transhumance and where is it practised?
2. Mention any two features of pastoral nomadism.
3. What is meant by ‘zero population growth’?
4. What is ‘demographic dividend’?
5. What do you mean by ‘optimum population’?
6. What is a ‘landscape’?
7. What is immigration?
8. Who are pastoral nomads? Give examples.
9. What is a ‘Metropolis’?
10. Indicate the spatial distribution of Chenchu tribe in India.
11. Define ‘mortality rate’.
12. What is a wet-point settlement?
13. Mention two sparsely populated zones in India.
14. What is a ‘satellite town’?
Category - B
Answer any five questions (each within 125 words).
5 × 5
15. What is the impact of increase in ageing population on the economy of a country?
16. What are the major changes in subsistence farming in the present day?
17. Write a brief note on nucleated settlement.
18. Explain the role of ‘situation’ in the growth of settlements.
19. Mention the major characteristics of ‘Industrial Society’.
20. Discuss the characteristics of the ‘Locational Approach’ in Human Geography.
21. Differentiate between Statutory and Census Towns as per the Census of India.
Category - C
Answer any two questions (each within 500 words).
15 × 2
22. Critically assess the Demographic Transition Model. How far is this model applicable for the developing countries of the world?
23. Discuss the nature, scope and recent trends in Human Geography.
24. Discuss the traditional livelihood pattern and cultural diversity of the Gonds in India.
25. How do post-industrial urban societies evolve? What are their major characteristics?
2024
GEOGRAPHY — HONOURS
Paper : DSCC-2
(Human Geography)
Full Marks : 75
Category - A
Answer any ten questions (each within 50 words).
2 × 10
1. Name two different measures of density of population.
2. What is meant by dry-point rural settlement?
3. Where does a linear settlement grow?
4. State the spatial distribution of hunting and food gathering societies of tropical world.
5. What is meant by cultural landscape?
6. Which factors lead to the dispersal of rural settlements?
7. Differentiate between a Census town and a Statutory town.
8. What is Anthropogeography?
9. Mention two recent trends in human-environment relationship.
10. What is migratory subsistence agriculture?
11. How does post-industrial society differ from an industrial society?
12. State the importance of ‘site’ in the establishment of a rural settlement.
13. When is a settlement known as urban in India?
14. Define megacity according to the Census of India.
Category - B
Answer any five questions (each within 125 words).
5 × 5
15. How does demographic dividend influence dependency ratio?
16. State the cultural ties of Todas with their livestocks.
17. Discuss the recent trends in Human Geography.
18. Discuss the merits and demerits of the Demographic Transition model.
19. Highlight the role played by migration in the population change of a region.
20. What are the effects of globalisation on post-industrial urban society?
21. Why is the social and economic system of pastoral nomadism undergoing changes in recent times?
Category - C
Answer any two questions (each within 500 words).
15 × 2
22. Give a reasoned account of the traditional livelihood pattern and challenges of the Chenchus in India.
23. Discuss the resource approach in Human Geography.
24. Account for the uneven distribution of population in India.
25. Discuss the characteristics of urban settlements with examples from the developed and the developing world.
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